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The next ‘Free Resources’ message will be on Tuesday 3rd April: I’m away for a week exploring family history in Banja Luka!
1. Stephen Downes asked ChatGPT to write an article with the following title, Eight Reasons People Dislike Learning Management Systems (LMS) https://chat.openai.com/share/0ee0026f-800d-4ebb-89c8-6fe67d415d2c At least a B+ mark, I reckon!
2. Cambridge University Press & Assessment recently convened a panel discussion on “ELT & AI: The Big Questions in Teaching, Learning & Assessment”. Here’s their report on LinkedIn (which I hope everyone can access) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exploring-future-english-language-teaching-mhzde/ and here’s the recording of the event https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVMdca0j6BA
Here’s a related post on the Cambridge blog from Sam Oliver, AI prompt writing for ELT Teachers: 7 ingredients of a successful prompt https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2024/03/09/ai-prompt-writing-for-elt-teachers-7-ingredients-of-a-successful-prompt/
3. APAC is the Associació de Professorat d’Anglès de Catalunya (Association of English Teachers of Catalonia). The archive of their journal goes back to 1988 – with adverts for that long-forgotten beast, the hard copy Encyclopaedia Britannica, in the early issues – and provides an interesting glimpse into ELT fads and fashions over the years https://www.apac365.org/elt-journal Here’s the latest issue, Number 94 https://tinyurl.com/49zcxnst and here’s the first issue https://tinyurl.com/45k72aex PDFs of both below.
4. The UK Government has just given Brian Bell two months (and two months only!) to review the political hot potato that is the UK Graduate visa route. Here’s their letter making him an offer he can’t refuse https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mac-commissioned-to-review-the-graduate-route/letter-from-the-home-secretary-to-professor-brian-bell-11-march-2024-accessible
5. And, finally, a whole host of marvellous photographs from this year’s Sony World Photography Awards https://www.worldphoto.org/2024-open-competition-winners-shortlist
Two of my own favourites:
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