Author Archives: roycross

Tuesday, 20th May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 20, 2025 by roycross

1. Aqueduto, the Association for Quality Education & Training Online, “is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to researching, supporting and showcasing quality in online language teacher education programmes” https://aqueduto.com/ Here’s a recording of a recent webinar of theirs with Joe Dale, … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 15th May (Richmond)

Posted on May 15, 2025 by roycross

1. My NILE colleague Rose Aylett was Anne Fox’s guest on the 306th edition of the Absolutely Intercultural podcast recently, Power in language, Critical pedagogy, Spectactors (sic), Taboo topics https://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/?p=5378 We’ll be talking about how you can use language to … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 13th May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 13, 2025 by roycross

1. Two recommendations from Gary Motteram to start with today: thanks, Gary! A MOOC from FutureLearn, AI in Education, which explores “how AI is reshaping education and reflect(s) on how you could respond critically or reimagine educational practices”.  https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/ai-in-education Free … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 8th May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 8, 2025 by roycross

1. This one’s a bit nerdy. Pupil absence in Autumn and Spring 2024/25 from the FFT Education Datalab, which, by its own account that I have no reason to doubt, “produces independent, cutting-edge research on education policy and practice” https://ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/04/pupil-absence-in-autumn-and-spring-2024-25/ … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 6th May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 6, 2025 by roycross

1. This year’s 41st NATESOL conference has as its theme Learners and Learning and is free to attend online. Full details of the programme in the flyer below and booking here https://www.natesol.org/event-details/natesol-annual-conference-2025 Abstracts of all the presentations, including Niall Curry’s … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 1st May (Cambridge)

Posted on May 1, 2025 by roycross

1. What surprises me about this piece from BOLD, How to support highly sensitive children in class, is the very high percentage of children who are affected by a condition I’ve never heard of! https://boldscience.org/how-to-support-highly-sensitive-children-in-class/ Imagine if every sound, sight, … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 29th April (Richmond)

Posted on April 29, 2025 by roycross

1. AI AIn’t going away, however much it might be misbehaving. Here’s a great set of resources from TeachingEnglish, Pathways: AI in language teaching https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/professional-development/teachers/professional-development-pathways/pathways-ai-language-teaching 2. Here’s an important report for the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 24th April (Cambridge)

Posted on April 24, 2025 by roycross

1. An interesting piece from Chatham House on the relationship between China and India, which they suggest will be of ‘greater long-term significance’ than the relationship between the US and China https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/2025-04-23-how-china-india-relations-will-shape-asia-global-order-bajpaee-jie.pdf The China–US relationship is widely regarded as the … Continue reading →

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Tuesday, 22nd April (Richmond)

Posted on April 22, 2025 by roycross

1. It’s United Nations International Mother Earth Day today https://www.un.org/en/observances/earth-day Mother Earth is clearly urging a call to action. Nature is suffering. Oceans filling with plastic and turning more acidic. Extreme heat, wildfires and floods, have affected millions of people. … Continue reading →

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Thursday, 17th April (Cambridge)

Posted on April 17, 2025 by roycross

1. Economic concepts in pictures from Visual Capitalist https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ These are their most popular graphics https://www.voronoiapp.com/posts/most-popular and here’s the global economy in 2025 https://www.voronoiapp.com/economy/-How-the-World-Economy-Will-Look-in-2025-3358 and in 2050 (but before the Trump assault on it began, I think) https://www.voronoiapp.com/economy/Visualizing-the-Future-Global-Economy-by-GDP-in-2050-127 2. A … Continue reading →

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