1. We need to give small companies the chance to be heard from time to time, so here’s

a) Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights from Real-World Data from Google DeepMind https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.13843

b) Khan Academy Founder Sal Khan on the Future of Learning from Microsofthttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/podcast/khan-academy-founder-sal-khan-on-the-future-of-learning

2. And here’s the CEO of another small start-up on the Logan Bartlett Show, Sam Altman talks GPT-4o and Predicts the Future of AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMtbrKhXMWc

3. Handbrake turn: here’s some natural intelligence. For this week only (I think), Haruki Murakami’s ‘The Art of Fiction’ interview from The Paris Review https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2/the-art-of-fiction-no-182-haruki-murakami

Also free this week, from The New York Review of Books: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2007/03/01/gods-of-the-mall/

Here’s Wikipedia on the handbrake turn https://w.wiki/AcCQ

4. It’s been a while since we visited the UKFIET blog. Here’s the most recent post, The Impact of the Language of Instruction on Foundational Literacy and Transitions from Pui Ki Patricia Kwok, Nisha Thomas, Catherine Young & Ann Veitch https://www.ukfiet.org/2024/the-impact-of-the-language-of-instruction-on-foundational-literacy-and-transitions/

The role foundational literacy plays in successful learning outcomes of children and young people is widely recognised. Without a solid development of foundational literacy, children will encounter a wide range of challenges throughout their schooling and potentially in their life outcomes. In many multilingual contexts, apart from developing literacy in their familiar languages, students are often challenged by the need to simultaneously develop literacies in multiple additional languages – including ones that are unfamiliar to the local communities. While there are many varied and contextual reasons for this, a common challenge is the early transition to a different Language of Instruction (LoI).

Other UKFIET blog posts here https://www.ukfiet.org/blog/

5.And, finally, here’s Henry Oliver’s take on The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien on his blog, The Common Reader https://www.commonreader.co.uk/p/the-hobbit-by-jrr-tolkien

I can’t quite make up my mind about Oliver: when he’s good, as in this piece, he’s very good; sometimes, though, he’s a bit precious!