Author Archives: roycross

This post has been unavoidably (and most enjoyably!) delayed by the arrival in the post of the latest Mick Herron book, ‘The Secret Hours’. 1. From Spiegel International, a piece about the Kakhovka Reservoir in Ukraine that was blown up … Continue reading →

Back into the groove …. 1. I’m about to enrol – if my nerve holds – on this Harvard course, which is free if you ‘audit’ it: Harvard CS50: Introduction to Computer Science https://www.edx.org/plp/introduction-computer-science-harvardx-cs50x Old dogs …. 2. Ample notice … Continue reading →

This will be the last ‘Free Resources’ message till Tuesday 12th September. With a certain amount of trepidation, I’m driving out to Croatia. It’s a journey we made annually for twenty-five years, but this will be the first time for … Continue reading →

1. August each year is Women in Translation Month. Here’s this year’s celebratory piece from Words Without Borders, 12 Translators Recommend Women in Translation https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-08/translators-recommend-women-in-translation-wwb/ And here’s a great essay, Mother’s Tongue, by one of the translators included in the … Continue reading →

1. Hope this one from The New Yorker works without a subscription (let me know if it doesn’t and I’ll see what I can do): How Much Can Duolingo Teach Us? is an interview with Duolingo’s founder, Luis von Ahn … Continue reading →

1. Lidia Kralj from Croatia is the leader of the European Digital Education Hub’s “AI in Education” squad. This post on her Digital Traces blog, Learning journey for, about, and with AI, has links to the four of her squad’s … Continue reading →

1. Two pieces on the funding of education in Britain: first, a piece on the funding of higher education from WONKHE (the clue’s in the acronym) We can’t support everything with cross-subsidy https://wonkhe.com/blogs/we-cant-support-everything-with-cross-subsidy/ I think this issue of huge over-dependence … Continue reading →

The plan had been to post this yesterday, as I didn’t want to inflict two posts on you within 36 hours. The seven-and-a half-hour drive home from Richmond yesterday due to a blocked motorway put the kibosh on that! 1. … Continue reading →

1. Emily Bryson is one of those really clever people that records and summarises meetings in pictures. Here’s some examples of her work https://www.emilybrysonelt.com/sketchnoting/ Scroll down the page a bit and click on any of the images. There’s some good … Continue reading →

Late yet again this week, but this time for an excellent reason: this year’s cohort of Hornby Trust MA scholars paid a visit to Cambridge yesterday! 1. Thanks to Graham Stanley for this, UNESCO’s Global education monitoring report, 2023: technology … Continue reading →