1. First up today, Ethan Mollick’s ‘Tasting notes’ on Google’s new “long-awaited powerful AI” large language model, Gemini Advanced https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/google-gemini-advanced-tasting-notes

Don’t forget to click to enlarge the images – lots of interesting stuff hiding there!

2. From Daisy Christodoulou for Engelsberg Ideas, Will AI revolutionise education? https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/will-ai-revolutionise-education/

Daisy seems to think not.

3. Here’s Alexandra Mihai’s latest post on her The Educationalist blog, It’s all about the process https://educationalist.substack.com/

“Let’s begin by acknowledging that learning is a process, and that, even though harder to measure, the process is at least as important as the product. In fact, for me personally, the most important aspect of learning is learning how to learn.”

4. Segregation or Integration? German language support teachers’ beliefs about ‘ideal’ language support models in Austria by Marie Gitschthaler, Elizabeth J. Erling & Susanne Schwab in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development has, I think, quite a lot to say that’s applicable to English language contexts. Article here https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01434632.2024.2301990 and PDF below.

5. And, finally, here’s the last of those three video features from The Guardian, Bhutan Mountain Man, the video diaries of the only glaciologist allowed to climb Bhutan’s sacred mountains, to measure the impact of climate change on the glaciers https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2024/jan/10/bhutan-mountain-man-videos-from-a-glaciologist-to-a-future-generation

His daughter worries that he’ll annoy the Snow Lion …