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Thursday, 20th February (Cambridge)
Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. SHORT NOTICE: 18:30 UK time tomorrow, Friday 21st February, an RSA online event, Russia’s war in a global perspective, with the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba, and BBC journalist Clive Myrie. More … Continue reading
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Tagged chatham-house, icai, news, poetry, politics, rsa, runnymede-trust, scotland, scottish-independence, simon-anholt
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Tuesday, 18th February (Richmond)
1. There’s a MenTRnet panel discussion at 13:00 UK time this coming Saturday, 22nd February, Integrating teacher-research into pre-service teacher education. More info and registration here https://mentrnet.net/integrating-teacher-research-into-pre-service-teacher-education-festival-event/ Mentoring teacher-research is often conceived of as an activity to engage in with … Continue reading
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Thursday, 13th February (Cambridge)
1. Here’s what appears to be an open-access article from the Times Higher Education, The UK’s redundancy crisis: four views from the front line https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-redundancy-crisis-four-views-front-line Higher education news feeds are currently dominated by near-daily announcements of large job cuts across … Continue reading
Tuesday, 11th February (Richmond)
1. Time flies! It seems only yesterday I mentioned a Macmillan online teacher festival (but it was November). Their 5th annual Global Teachers’ Festival has rather crept up on me: it started yesterday (it was all recorded, don’t worry!) and … Continue reading
Tuesday, 4th February (Richmond)
Not quite sure what happened on Tuesday! Better late than never? 1. This one has been around the social media block several times but it’s still worth a read, The Anglo-EU Translation Guide https://polish2english.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/55551980-anglo-eu-translation-guide1.pdf Do you hear what I say? … Continue reading
Thursday, 6th February (Cambridge)
1. Here, courtesy of The Lexical Lab newsletter, is the BBC’s history of its own involvement in English teaching, Do You Speak English? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026tw0 Even I’m too young to remember Walter and Connie, the first ‘English by television’ programme, but … Continue reading
Thursday, 30th January (Cambridge)
1. Here’s the UK National Archives (NA) video on the Beveridge Report of 1942 https://youtu.be/e-vGHp4P9LU Sir William Beveridge’s report laid the foundations of the modern British welfare state and the National Health Service (in the middle of the Second World … Continue reading
Tuesday, 28th January (Richmond)
1. Ethan Mollick has updated his guide to Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/which-ai-to-use-now-an-updated-opinionated Every six months or so, I have written an opinionated guide for individual users of AI, not specializing in any one type … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, artificial-intelligence, deep-seek, llm, technology
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Thursday, 23rd January (Cambridge)
1. A lot of the stuff on tools4Dev you have to pay for, but their blog often has interesting (free!) posts, like this one, How to Write a Monitoring and Evaluation Report https://tools4dev.org/blog/how-to-write-a-monitoring-and-evaluation-report/ and this one, Monitoring and Evaluation Tools … Continue reading
Tuesday, 21st January (Richmond)
1. I guess we’re all holding our breath and crossing our fingers on Gaza right now. The New Zealand poet, David Howard, whose sequence of poems about a Croatian-Māori family, Mate, I included last year (on 30th April, to be … Continue reading
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