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Monthly Archives: July 2025
Thursday, 31st July
1. 10 scenarios for education in 2035 https://edtechhub.org/evidence/10-scenarios-for-education-in-2035/ from the EdTech Hub https://edtechhub.org/ plus, a wealth of weekend reading in their Evidence Library https://docs.edtechhub.org/lib/ 2. The August issue of Humanising Language Teaching has just been published https://www.hltmag.co.uk/aug25/ It includes: i) … Continue reading
Tuesday, 29th July (Richmond)
1. Edinburgh University’s Review of Race and History has just been published https://www.ed.ac.uk/about/race-review The publication of the University’s Race Review is a significant moment in this ancient institution’s willingness and determination to learn from and repair its past, as well … Continue reading
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Tagged Digital nomads, Edinburgh University, Elif Shafak, Rob Gibson, Tom Lehrer, UNESCO
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Thursday, 24th July
1. A free ‘reading experience’ with which to start today, The Universal Turing Machine: a memoir by Richard Beard https://universalturingmachine.co.uk/ The Universal Turing Machine is a reading experience not a game, a memoir about what it means to live a … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Chatham House, China, Jane Austen, photography, Selma Dabbagh, The Universal Turing Machine, travel, What a palaver!
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Tuesday, 22nd July (Richmond)
1. This one’s a bit nerdy, a bit late, and a bit important. The Open Data Institute is launching its European Data and AI Policy Manifesto at 16:00 UK time tomorrow, Wednesday 23rd July. More info and registration here https://theodi.org/news-and-events/events/odi-european-data-and-ai-policy-manifesto-launch/ … Continue reading
Friday, 18th July (on the train from Norwich to Cambridge – or would have been, had Greater Anglia wifi been up to it!)
Only one post this week, a bit longer than usual, as I got in a right tiz-woz over some work I had to do for NILE with French school teachers of English yesterday and today. On reflection, the Ted Hughes … Continue reading
Thursday, 10th July (Cambridge)
An unavoidably vain attempt today to keep up with developments in AI and thinking about AI. 1. The New York Times recently ran an opinion piece by David Brooks, Are We Really Willing to Become Dumber?, about an MIT (Massachusetts … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, AI and Education, artificial-intelligence, chatgpt, Claude, education, Elon Musk, Grok, Joe Dale, MIT, Ness Labs, Rolling Stone, teachingenglish, technology
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Tuesday, 8th July (Richmond)
1. 100 Years of Mein Kampf is a programme that John Kampfner has just made for BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002fj5g Here’s (part of) the blurb, to help you decide if you want to listen. I thought it was good. A … Continue reading
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Tagged AI and Education, John Kampfner, Kyuseok Kim, Mein Kampf, SRHE, The Salt Path, Thinking About, Timothy Snyder
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Tuesday, 1st July (Richmond)
1. This one from Anthropic will take some time to explore thoroughly, Claude’s language learning tutor, which offers “customized language tutoring based on your goals and proficiency” https://claude.ai/artifacts/inspiration/2af221b6-367f-4b4f-9fe9-25710f5f8feb A number of the languages I once (sort of) spoke are now … Continue reading
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Tagged Against AI, Chatbots, Claude, Himal, Jason Stanley, Lost Languages, Peter Putnam
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