Monthly Archives: June 2023

1. Ever been to a conference and regretted not being able to go to two concurrent sessions at the same time? Here’s the recordings of all the sessions, concurrent or otherwise, at Trinity’s 8th Future of English Language Teaching Conference … Continue reading →

1. EL Gazette were typically quick to pick up on this one from Cambridge Assessment, Can you answer a 110-year-old exam question? https://www.elgazette.com/can-you-answer-a-110-year-old-exam-question/ Cambridge have been kind enough to supply me with the answers, and here they are: a. is … Continue reading →

1. Stephen Downes just had a half-hour conversation with an AI (Artificial Intelligence) interlocutor-bot about the ethics of AI https://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2023/06/my-conversation-with-pi-ai-on-ethics-of.html Why didn’t I think of that idea first? 2. A message from Sergio Monteiro, the President of BRAZ-TESOL: “Saudações do … Continue reading →

1. The LINEs (Learning for Informal and Non-formal Educators) project, led by a team based at the University of Glasgow School of Education (Damian Ross, Maria Grazia Imperiale & Giovanna Fassetta), worked with teachers involved in non-formal and informal refugee … Continue reading →

1. Here’s a piece from Wired discussing how, because they are less fluent in languages other than English, the development of AI chatbots is threatening to amplify the existing bias in global commerce and innovation in favour of English, ChatGPT … Continue reading →

1. We should probably all read This Is What Happens To Your Brain When You’re In Back-To-Back Meetings from HuffPost  https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/meetings-breaks-office-brain-study_l_638e4f82e4b06fdc9d907e03 2. Something a little different: The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance edited by Stephen Boucher, … Continue reading →

1. An engaging Library of Congress interview with Howard W. French about his book, ‘Born in Blackness’, At the Heart of Modernity: Africa and Africans https://youtu.be/cmm6i2eV0uc From the blurb: “What happens when you consider the origins of modernity and center … Continue reading →

1. What role for aid in countries with and without a development bargain? is the title of this ODI (Overseas Development Institute, I think, but it doesn’t use its full name anymore!) event with Stefan Dercon at 18:00 UK time … Continue reading →

A day later than usual: busier yesterday than I expected to be! 1. Advancing Learning: Fast-forward 2023 is Macmillan English’s ninety-minute distillation of the best thirty ideas from their last season of professional development events, split into 3 main segments: … Continue reading →