Author Archives: roycross

1. Here’s a new resource from Teachers Without Borders https://teacherswithoutborders.org/ on Design Thinking, which they explain is “a human-centered, iterative problem-solving methodology that places empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing at its core. Originally pioneered in the realm of product design, … Continue reading →

1. This post is late – and solitary and longer! – this week because I’ve been attending a colloquium on Regional and minority languages within a plurilingual context at the ECML (European Centre for Modern Languages) in Graz in Southern … Continue reading →

1. I’ve quite often included UKFIET https://www.ukfiet.org/ blog posts. For a change, here are videos of the plenary talks from their recent joint conference in Oxford with BAICE https://baice.ac.uk/ (the British Association for International & Comparative Education) https://www.ukfiet.org/2023/plenary-videos-from-ukfiet-2023-conference/ This powerful … Continue reading →

1. I’m not quite sure why this Essex University research on accents has been all over the papers and the radio this week, on the face of it eight months after its publication: here’s Essex academic Amanda Cole’s occasional blog … Continue reading →

1. Climate action in language education is a free online course from TeachingEnglish which aims to help you “integrate environmental issues in English language teaching and develop the skills you need to take and sustain meaningful and impactful action to … Continue reading →

1. Lots to explore on the (still under development) AI in Education website https://www.ai-in-education.co.uk/ including AI in Performing Arts Education: Crafting an Immersive Taylor Swift Murder Mystery https://www.ai-in-education.co.uk/resources/ai-in-performing-arts-education-crafting-an-immersive-taylor-swift-murder-mystery Shame she had to be murdered, though! 2. Annie Rauwerda “makes a … Continue reading →

1. The REAL (Research for Equitable Access and Learning) Centre here in Cambridge is about to start its autumn seminar series https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/real/events/ All the seminars are online (as well as f2f), and here’s the first two: The role of hope … Continue reading →

1. The Nature of Networks that Support Innovation is an interesting piece on what makes networks work by Tobias Stone https://medium.com/@newsquare/the-nature-of-networks-that-support-innovation-e496784b61c3 Don’t be put off by the complex description of ‘an ideal innovation network structure’ at the beginning: Tobias explains … Continue reading →

1. Want to make ChatGPT work better for you? Talk to it like a person, like you would a co-worker or team member argues this piece by David Gewirtz for ZDNet, How to write better ChatGPT prompts for the best … Continue reading →

1. First up today, here’s a cornucopia of recordings from the TeachingEnglish celebration of World Teacher’s Day last week, with speakers from all around the world https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/world-teachers-day-2023 Scroll down to the bottom of the individual pages for each day for … Continue reading →