1. If you answer yes to any of these questions:

• Are you committed to the inclusion and integration of ALL your learners in schools and classrooms, regardless of their background?
• Are you experiencing increasing numbers of children coming to school with languages other than the main language used in the school?
• Do teachers, teacher trainers, policymakers and other colleagues involved in the education of 0–19-year-olds need to learn about new and effective, research-informed approaches to learning and teaching in increasingly multilingual classrooms in your context?

then the ECML are pretty confident that their webinar at 15:00 UK time on Thursday 16^th October, Supporting multilingual classrooms,will be of interest to you! More info here https://www.ecml.at/en/Resources/Webinars and registration here https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_p3zGypndQmGwRkJwz21MYA#/registration

More info on this joint EU-ECML initiative, which aims to help member states ensure access to quality education for migrant learners which will help bridge the attainment gap between these learners and non-migrant, here https://multilingualclassrooms.ecml.at/en/

2. An open-access piece from the forthcoming issue of ELTJ, ‘Did a robot write that?’: AI-generated digital storybooks by Sara Ratner, Cindy Ong, Sandra Mathers & Victoria A Murphy https://academic.oup.com/eltj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/elt/ccaf034/8266579

‘Did a robot write that?’ asked one young participant in this study. A deceptively simple question that captures the challenges raised by artificial intelligence (AI) in children’s literacy experiences. This article explores how young children and their caregivers engage with AI-generated storybooks through Let’s Story, a feature of the Applaydu app. Developed by Gameloft and Ferrero International in partnership with the University of Oxford’s Learning in Families through Technology project, Let’s Story enables families to co-create storybooks using Microsoft’s generative AI tools.

Each issue of ELTJ always has two or three open-access articles https://academic.oup.com/eltj/issue

3. The new issue of HLT (Humanising Language Teaching) is just out https://www.hltmag.co.uk/oct25/ There’s a great piece by Adrian Underhill, Meeting Mario https://www.hltmag.co.uk/oct25/meeting-mario and a review by Chang Liou of a great book (which I wish was a little more affordable, so more people could benefit from it), “Using Wisdom Stories in Language Teacher Education” by Alan Maley https://www.hltmag.co.uk/oct25/review-of-using-wisdom-stories

4. Here’s an accessible three-part series on Why are human networks important? by Valdis Krebs from the (R)E-TIES project at Rīga Stradiņš University

https://www.rsu.lv/en/news/why-are-human-networks-important-part-one

https://www.rsu.lv/en/news/why-are-human-networks-important-part-two

https://www.rsu.lv/en/news/why-are-human-networks-important-part-three

5. And, finally and linguistically, from the Institute for Arts and Ideas (IAI) website via Maja Mandekic, Language conceals reality: how words guide our choices by Nick Enfield https://iai.tv/articles/language-conceals-reality-auid-2756