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Shorts for Social Workers - everything from practice debate to philosophy stopping off at self care and productivity along the way
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Social Work Shorts (Episode 48) Induction week thoughts - and thinking about AI (opens the original)
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AI can make you a better student - or a worse one. I’m increasingly convinced that AI could be one of the bestlearning tools students have ever had. Imagine having something available at any time of the day or night that can explain a difficult idea differently, test your knowledge, challenge an argument or help you see a problem fromanother perspective. Used well, that’s an extraordinary resource. But there’s a catch. AI can also make it incredibly easy to avoidthe very things university is ask
Social Work Shorts (Episode 47) Starting University!? Listen up! (opens the original)
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Starting university? Don’t just learn what to study. Learn how to study. When you start university, understandably, most of your attention goes towards what you’re going to learn. Psychology, nursing, social work, history, engineering or whatever subject you’ve chosen. You get your reading lists, your timetable, your modules and before long you’re surrounded by an enormous amount of new information. But there’s another thing you’re learning at the same time: how to learn. Nobody arrives at unive
Social Work Shorts (Episode 46) Reading at university - what's it for? (opens the original)
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Starting university next week? Learning is more thanhighlighting and rereading. One of the easiest traps to fall into at university is thinkingthat studying means spending lots of time looking at information. You read achapter, highlight the important bits, read it again before the seminar andthen wonder why, a few days later, you can barely remember any of it. That’s completely normal. Reading something is not the same aslearning it. The first time you encounter an idea you might simply becomef
Social Work Shorts (Episode 45) Critical Thinking - Discover/Defend (opens the original)
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Critical thinking isn’t the same as criticising everything. I think we sometimes misunderstand what it means to be a critical thinker. We hear the word critical and assume it means finding fault: spotting what’s wrong with an argument, disagreeing with someone, or demonstrating why our position is better than theirs. But critical thinking isn’t really about becoming better at winning arguments. It’s about becoming better at understanding them. Caroline Webb describes something called the Discove
Social Work Shorts (Episode 44) Your Attention Is Your Greatest Academic Asset (opens the original)
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One for the students and people who support students this.... Time management isn’t your biggest problemat university. Attention is. We talk a lot about time management at university and at work …and in life. Buy a planner, organise your calendar, block out two hours for reading and make yourself a revision timetable. All useful stuff and being organised certainly helps but I am fond ofsaying you can’t manage time – but you can manage what you do with it – and that kind of aligns to this. After
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