1. Now this is what could and should be done in schools with AI!

Thai Oral History – Hua Dong Storylines: Weaving Memories with AI https://thai-oral-history-web.vercel.app/

Welcome to our storytelling space! This website is like a living archive of “Hua Dong Community, Phichit,” reimagined through the eyes of junior high school students from Tedsaban Radjaroen School, Hua Dong Sub-district, Mueang District, Phichit in the academic year 2025. We, the students, stepped out of the classroom to sit, talk, and listen to the precious life stories of our community elders. Using Gemini AI, we’ve transformed these local memories into vibrant storybooks, ensuring our heritage can be shared and cherished by readers all around the globe.

Try Grandpa’s Salted Fish or The Mango Ghost of Chong Village!

2. From Jakob Nielsen’s UX Tigers, via OLDaily, Redesigning Workflows for AI  https://www.uxtigers.com/post/workflow-redesign

In a controlled field experiment, startups that redesigned end-to-end workflows around AI generated 90% more revenue than equally equipped peers that used AI mainly to speed up individual tasks.

In other words, don’t waste time on little tweaks at the margins.

3. Well, like many people, I used to think – to use a slightly bowdlerised Yorkshire expression – that the sun shone out of John Hattie’s bottom. Now, I’m not so sure. Take a look at these two pieces:

First, from Stephen Vainker’s blog, The Wreckage, Caged in a fantasy, teachers are angry at Hattie https://stephenvainker.substack.com/p/caged-in-a-fantasy-teachers-are-angry

Second, from Retraction Watch, which tracks “retractions as a window into the scientific process”, University of Melbourne opens formal investigation into education researcher John Hattie https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/16/university-melbourne-opens-formal-investigation-education-researcher-john-hattie/

4. Alain Wolf has written an interesting paper telling the story of the literature paper in the Cambridge Proficiency in English (CPE) exam, describing its precarious existence from its introduction in 1913 and its silent demise in 2002, A Brief History of the Literature Paper in the Cambridge Proficiency in English Examination (CPE) 1913–2002: Have They Thrown the Baby out with the Bath Water? https://www.ubplj.org/index.php/TBJE/article/view/2697 PDF below as well.

(…) tensions will inevitably arise as soon as one realises that there is a moral dimension to the writing of history. But the point to consider at this stage is that the risk of treating the past as if it were the 21st century is as great as that of treating it as a foreign land. Histories of language teaching (…) often reflect these notions, i.e. that past teaching methods, and by extension the assessment of students, are judged at once according to the strangeness of past minds and by contemporary educational values.

5. And, finally, a piece for Engelsberg Ideas by Damian Valdez putting the Strait of Hormuz into its historical context, Chokepoints are the true crossroads of history https://engelsbergideas.com/essays/chokepoints-are-the-true-crossroads-of-history/