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Friday, 26th June (Cambridge)
One day late, occasioned by a late train home from London yesterday evening! 1. Frank Cottrell-Boyce is the current Waterstones Children’s Laureate here in the UK. He gave the annual ‘Laureate Lecture’, The Kids Are Not Alright, earlier this week. … Continue reading
Thursday, 18th June (Cambridge)
1. it’s probably fair to say that the world of assessment and testing is in ferment at present. Just in case your experience of taking exams is as out-of-date as mine is, here’s advice from Duolingo (ear scanning included!), How … Continue reading
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Tuesday, 16th June (Cambridge)
1. Global Englishes: Research agendas and tasks in English as a lingua franca by Will Baker, Fan Fang & Telma Gimenez has just been made available open access by Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-teaching/article/global-englishes-research-agendas-and-tasks-in-english-as-a-lingua-franca/9D8CABD3D9DEFBC5B45AB7D66237052A PDF below. Global Englishes, and within that … Continue reading
Thursday, 11th June (Cambridge)
1. Pride of place today to the ‘personal passion project’ that Chris Sowton has been developing over the last few months, Teach Any Class https://teachanyclass.org/ It’s a wonderfully rich resource, covering Professional Development, Classroom Activities, Skills Development, Important Concepts, Great … Continue reading
Tuesday, 9th June (Cambridge)
1. !!SHORT NOTICE ALERT!! A Hachette webinar, From Assumptions to Partnerships: rethinking parental engagement to raise children’s achievement, with Cat Jones at 16:00 UK time tomorrow, Wednesday 10th June. More info and registration here https://hachette-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/5rYCdZUoTVCTJpaN3hetIQ#/registration National research with in-service teachers … Continue reading
Thursday, 4th June (Cambridge)
Posting early today as we’re off up to Sheffield later on to babysit The Artful Dodger while his dad exhibits at the Goldsmiths North show and mum supports. Venceremos! 1. The latest free-to-attend IATEFL monthly webinar is at 15:00 UK … Continue reading
Thursday, 28th May (Cambridge)
1. Ethan Mollick’s latest blog post, Choosing to Stay Human … …means choosing when and how to use AI, https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/choosing-to-stay-human If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look … Continue reading
Tuesday, 26th May (Cambridge)
Today has been very largely ‘guest edited’ by Maja Mandekić, most welcome after an exhausting weekend spent with inexhaustible little Mateo! 1. A piece by Shelley Galpin for The Conversation about one of my favourite novels, Jude the Obscure, Thomas … Continue reading
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