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Monthly Archives: October 2025
Thursday, 30th October (Cambridge)
1. ‘The more languages you know, the better you are’: learners’ pride in being multilingual and their motivation for language learning is a recent open-access Taylor & Francis article by Giulia Sulis & Sarah Mercer from Graz University and Astrid … Continue reading
Tuesday, 28th October (Richmond)
1. The big news this morning is that both the governing Labour party and the Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, have hit an all-time low in popularity. I’ve just re-subscribed to The Times (for £1 for three months) and here’s their … Continue reading
Wednesday, 22nd October (Cambridge)
A little early, this post, as I’m on grandpa duty tomorrow. 1. Tax the rich — and save the planet is the title of a TED talk back in the summer by Nobel Prize-winning economist Esther Duflo https://www.ted.com/talks/esther_duflo_tax_the_rich_and_save_the_planet Nobel Prize-winning … Continue reading
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Tagged Candido Camero, Esther Duflo, Helen Lewis, Know How Fund, National Archives, Olga Gray, Saudi Arabia, Soft power, Tax the rich
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Tuesday, 21st October (Richmond)
1. First up today, the latest version of Ethan Mollick’s (Opinionated) Guide to Using AI https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-using-ai Click on the images to enlarge them. Every few months I write an opinionated guide to how to use AI, but now I write … Continue reading
Thursday, 16th October (Cambridge)
1. I am largely persuaded by More in Common’s social segmentation of Britain into seven https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/seven-segments/ After a global pandemic, a decade of political chaos and rising public anxiety about the cost of living and national security, Britons are increasingly … Continue reading
Tuesday, 14th October (Richmond)
1. Coral reefs are struggling to survive global warming. The video on this page shows them in their colourful glory and in their bleached fallen state https://global-tipping-points.org/case-studies/#coral I’d not come across Global Tipping Points before: here’s their home page https://global-tipping-points.org/ … Continue reading
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Tagged Cathay Pacific, Coral reefs, Emotional health, Gallup, Monocle, Solar energy, Thomas Pynchon, Tibet
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Wednesday, 8th October (Cambridge)
1. If you answer yes to any of these questions: then the ECML are pretty confident that their webinar at 15:00 UK time on Thursday 16th October, Supporting multilingual classrooms,will be of interest to you! More info here https://www.ecml.at/en/Resources/Webinars and … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, E L T J, ECML, education, H L T, Human networks, learning, Mario Rinvolucri, Multilingual classrooms, teaching, technology
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Monday, 6th October (Richmond)
Both this week’s posts will be one day early, as I’ll be busy on Thursday with a) grandpa duties – he’s on the cusp of walking, with all the potential for mischief that brings with it – and b) a … Continue reading
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Tagged Education in Gaza, Keir Starmer, Labour, Persuasion, Reform, T S Eliot Poetry Prixe, UKFIET, ukraine
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Thursday, 2nd October (Cambridge)
1. It was National Poetry Day here in the UK today. There’s a good website with a wide range of classroom activities (and much more besides) https://forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poetry-day/poems-and-resources/ 2. High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? is a piece for … Continue reading
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