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1. More easily promised than delivered, a values-based education? John Gibbs of Teachers Talk Radio asked Bridget Knight, the author of ‘On the Subject of Values … and the Value of Subjects: New thinking to guide schools through the curriculum’ … Continue reading →

1. Climate Justice: what’s it got to do with ELT? The answer according to Green ELT is, ‘Quite a lot!’ Find out more here https://green-action-elt.uk/events/ and register here for the event at 14:00 UK time next Friday, 20th January https://nile-elt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUtdeGhqzsuHNOL9nepJhyBR5RkmOfNWVHV … Continue reading →

1. I’ve mentioned NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, before. Not sure they use their full, long name anymore https://www.nesta.org.uk/ Here’s their annual round-up “of the innovations and ideas that could have implications for the … Continue reading →

1. Two from the TeachingEnglish site to start with: a) A three-module, four-week, nine-hour course on Teaching English through literature, developed in partnership with Macmillan India https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/teaching-english-through-literature b) Maria Jose Galleno from Uruguay talking about effective strategies for enabling teacher … Continue reading →

Happy New Year, everyone! 1. Here’s another academic’s take on ChatGPT: Tony Bates’s Playing with ChatGPT: now I’m scared (a little) https://www.tonybates.ca/2023/01/02/playing-with-chatgpt-now-im-scared/ There’s a growing (sensible) consensus that ChatGPT is not going to go away, so we’d better find a … Continue reading →

1. The T S Eliot Prize website is now very nearly complete, just the Yomi Ṣode videos missing, I think, and they should be up soon https://tseliot.com/prize/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2022/shortlist/ Try these two poems, both short, read by their author: James Conor Patterson … Continue reading →

1. A provocative piece by Michael Feldstein on his blog, I Would Have Cheated in College Using ChatGPT https://eliterate.us/i-would-have-cheated-in-college-using-chatgpt/ ‘But I wouldn’t have thought of it as cheating’, says Michael. ‘Cheating is a state of mind.’ 2. So, I thought … Continue reading →

1. The December issue of HLT (Humanising Language Teaching) https://www.hltmag.co.uk/dec22/ includes a ‘video article’ by John Hughes, Cuisenaire Rods Today https://www.hltmag.co.uk/dec22/cuisenaire-rods-today which sent me off on a trip down Memory Lane to the time when, as a trainee teacher, I … Continue reading →

1. I’m in Graz at present, about to attend the ECML-EU joint colloquium on “Innovative Methodologies and Assessment in Language Learning 10 years on – moving forward together”. There’s a live stream this afternoon https://youtu.be/nxMgt7PmLmA and tomorrow afternoon https://youtu.be/lT9ZiwiP1Nw More … Continue reading →

1. We’ve had a plethora of ‘words of the year’ recently. I mentioned the controversial (from a UK perspective) Cambridge word of the year – ‘homer’ – on 22nd November, and now we have the Oxford one https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2022/ and the … Continue reading →