Author Archives: roycross

1. This event on Friday at 12:30 UK time (18:00 Delhi time), chaired by Amol Padwad, looks likely to be good: Learning languages by promoting cultural diversity: policy and practice. It will include insights from research commissioned by the British … Continue reading →

1. Harry Kuchah Kuchah is giving the next webinar in the Universitas Negeri JakartaGraduate School ‘Language, Society, Education’ monthly programme, Silence and Silencing: English Medium Education and the Exclusion of Girls in an African Basic Education Context, at 08:30 UK … Continue reading →

1. From a newspaper ‘down under’ – from a UK perspective, at least! – for a change, the Sydney Morning Herald: University students caught paying others to do their work at record levels https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/university-students-caught-paying-others-to-do-their-work-at-record-levels-20221025-p5bsrx.html I wonder if ‘the war on … Continue reading →

An accidental focus on listening today. 1. I’ve never felt able to take out full membership of the Stephen Fry fan club, which says more about me than it does about him, I’m sure. Nonetheless, Cross prejudice notwithstanding, here’s the … Continue reading →

1. The Green English language teaching page on the Green Action ELT website is a very rich resource https://green-action-elt.uk/act-now/teach/#outdoor-elt Scroll right down for a video on Green ELT for lower language levels from Carol Samlal https://youtu.be/J342v5JTUB0 Green Action ELT is … Continue reading →

1. Two free online courses from Alison – a company, not a person! An introductory one on Digital and Cyber Security Awareness https://alison.com/course/digital-and-cyber-security-awareness and another, a diploma level course, Diploma in Global Digital Literacy https://alison.com/course/diploma-in-global-digital-literacy Another 3,293 free online courses … Continue reading →

1. Another good piece from the New York Times on Artificial Intelligence, A.I.-Generated Art Is Already Transforming Creative Work https://tinyurl.com/3yrxhntn “I typed in ‘carrot parrot,’ and it spit back a perfect image of a parrot made of carrots,” said Collin … Continue reading →

1. Zoom evidently have an interest in this collection from the Harvard Business Review, Reimagining Work, which they claim will offer us “ways to reinvent how, where, and when we work; find more passion, purpose, and meaning in (our) work; … Continue reading →

1. Had AI (Artificial Intelligence) been available when you were at university, would you have used it for your least favourite subjects? Students Are Using AI to Write Their Papers, Because Of Course They Are is the title of this … Continue reading →

1. Teachers can change the world: scaling quality teacher professional development is the title of a recent Brookings Institution blog post which raises a number of the issues to do with teacher impact, cost and supply https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2022/10/04/teachers-can-change-the-world-scaling-quality-teacher-professional-development/ and includes some … Continue reading →