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1. UnHerd is new to me https://unherd.com/ If you’re pushed for time, all its articles are tagged with how long they take to read! It has an ambitious mission: UnHerd aims to do two things: to push back against the … Continue reading →

1. The Teacher Tapp app allows teachers to share thoughts and opinions by answering three short multiple-choice questions sent to their phone at 3:30 pm each day. Answers are collated and the findings shared. The idea’s a good and simple … Continue reading →

1. ReadListenLearn have added comprehension questions to some of their stories, most of which already have an audio version https://readlistenlearn.net/en Here’s a science fiction story, The Ablest Man in the World, by Edward Page Mitchell, a one-eyed writer I’d never … Continue reading →

1. The first of two items on academic writing. Tomorrow, Friday 9th July, at 14:00 UK time Ana Frankenberg-Garcia from Surrey University here in the UK will be talking about Academic English Collocations: from corpus data to assisted writing with … Continue reading →

1. At 10:00 UK time tomorrow, Thursday 8th July, The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education https://www.obhe.org/ presents the first in a series of ‘Borderless Conversations’ with Perry Hobson from Sunway University & Mushtak Al-Atabi from the Kuala Lumpur branch of … Continue reading →

1. If you’re involved with an English Teachers’ Association (ETA), either as member or office-bearer, you might like to check out this announcement from the A S Hornby Educational Trust about funding for ETA projects https://www.hornby-trust.org.uk/projects#Projects You can learn more … Continue reading →

1. I was speaking to Steve Mann earlier today and he didn’t tell me he was newly famous. Scroll down the page for his video interview with John Shackleton on his new report on remote-delivered CPD – videos work very … Continue reading →

1. One for the weekend? A new UNESCO report on last year’s Mobile Learning Week, Beyond disruption: technology enabled learning futures https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000377753 The event focused on how technology can be used to ensure learning continuity and quality during the disruption … Continue reading →

1. You need to register on the National Poetry Day website to be allowed to download their learning materials; it’s well worth doing so https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/education/free-education-resource-downloads/ One example of (very) many lesson plans for all levels and ages built around a … Continue reading →

1. Good notice of this one, as previous SHAPE events have booked out quickly: The Future of Schools, daily from 12th to 16th July. More info here https://shape-education.org/future-of-schools-2021 and registration here https://share.hsforms.com/1BMpkWlL6R8WM2U3uqegUUQ3iz8b Recordings and notes (and cartoons!) of past SHAPE … Continue reading →