1. The ICEPELL project – Intercultural Citizenship Education through Picturebooks in Early English Language Learning – have just produced a set of seventeen enchanting ‘ICEKits’, teaching packs around picture-books which promote citizenship topics https://icepell.eu/index.php/icekits/
PDF copies of #1, Perfectly Norman, and #3, Strictly No Elephants, below, to give you the idea.
2. The next webinar in UCL’s Academic Writing series, What can we do about academic integrity? with Mary Brooks, is this Thursday, 31st March, at 16:00 UK time. More info and registration here https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2022/mar/what-can-we-do-about-academic-integrity
“This event will be particularly useful for those interested in academic literacies, plagiarism and academic integrity.” At one level, we’re all interested in academic integrity, aren’t we?
3. The first of three very informative blog posts on Neurodivergence and online learning through the pandemic from the Association for Learning Technology (ALT), What is neurodiversity? can be found here https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2022/03/neurodivergence-and-online-learning-through-the-pandemic-what-is-neurodiversity-post-1-of-3/
The second, Studying in the home environment and adapting to assessment adjustments, is here https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2022/03/neurodivergence-and-online-learning-through-the-pandemic-studying-in-the-home-environment-and-adapting-to-assessment-adjustments-post-2-of-3/
and the third, Recommendations from the Support Services perspective here https://altc.alt.ac.uk/blog/2022/03/neurodivergence-and-online-learning-through-the-pandemic/
Good suggestions for further reading at the end of each post, too.
4. I don’t often read Bloomberg pieces but quite often enjoy them when I do. Here’s their longish recent piece, on how Putin and Xi Exposed the Great Illusion of Capitalism https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-24/ukraine-war-has-russia-s-putin-xi-jinping-exposing-capitalism-s-great-illusion
“Unless the U.S. and its allies mobilize to save it”, say the authors, “the second great age of globalization is coming to a catastrophic close” – apocalyptic stuff.
5. And, finally, today’s poem for Ukraine is Refugees, by an anonymous author. Be sure to obey the instruction at the end of the poem! (PDF below.)
Refugees
They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way
(Now read from bottom to top, please.)
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