1. Short notice of a free online course from Old Dominion University at 16:00 UK time tomorrow, Tuesday 17^th September, with Helen Crompton, Transforming Teaching with AI (Workshop): Tools to Lighten the Workload https://online.odu.edu/events/transforming-teaching-ai-tools-lighten-workload

Stay sane this semester. Discover how AI tools can simplify and enhance everyday teaching responsibilities. This presentation will cover tools for automating tasks that will free up time for educators to focus on what truly matters—teaching and engaging with students.

2. The latest post on Andy Brock’s Re Education blog https://abrock.substack.com/ focuses on “why many people think the current aid system is broken, perhaps beyond repair, and whether a new kid on the block – Global Public Investment (GPI) – offers a pathway to a better future”. Plenty to explore in the archive, too!

3. The latest from Bold, Why learning shouldn’t always be easy with Manu Kapur from the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich https://bold.expert/why-learning-shouldnt-always-be-easy/

plus two earlier videos about Manu’s notion of ‘productive failure’

https://bold.expert/we-can-take-this-powerful-mechanism-and-deliberately-design-it-to-learn

https://bold.expert/productive-failure-produces-learning-outcomes-for-the-21st-century

4. Here’s Jessica Mackay’s latest wonderfully comprehensive CPD update, for the coming autumn https://eim-ub.blogspot.com/2024/08/cpd-opportunities-autumn-2024.html

5. And, finally, Bernardine Evaristo on the books that shaped her life https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/13/bernardine-evaristo-ive-gone-from-being-a-raging-ranter-in-my-20s-to-a-radical-reasoner-in-my-60s

Over a hundred other writers in the archive, including Kae Tempest, Mieko Kawakami, Ian Rankin, Lee Child and Jenny Erpenbeck here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/the-books-of-my-life

And by way of related bonus, here’s one I just discovered, the first episode in the new series of BBC Radio 4’s This Cultural Life with Lee Child talking about his formative cultural influences https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022cln

Archive here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010fl4/episodes/player which includes the writer with whom this paragraph started before I lost control of it, Bernadine Evaristo https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010n89