Author Archives: roycross

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 →

1. We prefer things to be black and white, with no shades of grey. Tobias Ellwood, the chair of the House of Commons Defence Select Committee, made the mistake of suggesting in a video recently that the Taliban had some … Continue reading →

Late again this week, this time due to an unusually painful bout of sciatica. Suggestions from fellow-sufferers will be most welcome! 1. This one doesn’t mince its words: “The use of English as the common language of science represents a … Continue reading →

1. I can’t remember where I came across this ELT Buzz collection on nativespeakerism – LinkedIn, maybe? https://www.eltbuzz.com/tag/native-speaker/ Ironically, ELT Buzz itself https://www.eltbuzz.com/ has a bit of a native speaker vibe, but it does a good job hoovering up news … Continue reading →

1. Here’s an update on the current free IATEFL offer: 2. It’s World Youth Skills Day on Saturday, 15th July. Here’s a sobering post on the World Bank Education for Global Development blog https://blogs.worldbank.org/education/youth-economic-disengagement-harsh-global-reality-remember-world-youth-skills-day Seven out of every 10 youth … Continue reading →