Author Archives: roycross

1. Short notice of this short (45”) webinar, Dyslexia Awareness for Language Teachers with Boelo van der Pool tomorrow, Wednesday, February 7th at 12:00 UK time. Free registration here, “to understand how to help the 10 to 15% of your … Continue reading →

1. Just under 25 minutes into this episode of Matt Chorley’s Politics Without The Boring Bits podcast you’ll find an excellent and wide-ranging discussion of education in the UK since the 1944 Education Act which introduced free secondary education – … Continue reading →

1. Thanks are due, as so often, to Stephen Downes’s OLDaily for this one: AI for Teachers: an Open Textbook https://www.ai4t.eu/textbook/ Here’s a bit more about the project that produced it https://www.ai4t.eu/about/ PDF below. OLDaily home page here https://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm 2. Still on … Continue reading →

1. A Bit of a Stretch is a podcast by Chris Atkins, a documentary maker who went to prison for tax fraud in 2016. After his release, he interviewed twenty ex-prisoners about their time in jail, and turned the recordings … Continue reading →

1. Ethan Mollick’s blog, One Useful Thing, focuses on AI and its impacts on work and education. Here’s his latest post, The Lazy Tyranny of the Wait Calculation: taking AI timelines seriously https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-lazy-tyranny-of-the-wait-calculation I’m now debating whether I can afford … Continue reading →

1. The Faculty of Education at Cambridge University often highlights interesting recent research on their website https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/news/index.html#2dd826a9 Try this one, Fewer than 1% of schools have school-wide policies on second languages, language learning and English https://content.educ.cam.ac.uk/news/23-forbes-language-policy or this one, Disadvantaged … Continue reading →

1. “Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the YouTube sensation that is Mr Beast” is the first sentence of this article that I read last week. I’ve clearly been living under a rock! https://www.unilad.com/celebrity/news/mrbeast-x-elon-musk-youtube-earnings-835450-20240111 Intrigued … Continue reading →

1. In my first week at university reading English (in my own case, a much more appropriate verb than studying or writing), along with all my friends from school, we went to hear Jeremy Prynne lecture: one of our group, … Continue reading →

1. Will AI rule the world before too much longer? Here’s an interesting paper on exam marking in Spain (courtesy of OLDaily), Consistency analysis of assessment boards in University Entrance Examinations in Spain, the conclusion of which is that humans … Continue reading →

This is the last ‘Free Resources’ message for 2023. I’ll not be back till Tuesday 9th January, so here’s some longer reads to keep you going. Enjoy your Christmas break if you’re having one! 1. What I miss – or … Continue reading →