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1. As I’m sure most of you worked out, there was no message on Friday because Prince Philip died that morning, at the end of a very long and interesting life. Here’s The Guardian‘s long and interesting obituary: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/prince-philip-the-duke-of-edinburgh-obituary “Things … Continue reading →

1. This recent piece of research by Strathclyde University into what they call composite classes – classes made up of children from more than one year group, as is still reasonably common in a number of countries round the world … Continue reading →

1. Oxford University Press (OUP) are currently running a ‘feature’ on learner agency https://elt.oup.com/feature/global/expert/?cc=gb&selLanguage=en&mode=hub which I don’t think is quite the same thing as learner autonomy. PDF of their Learner Agency: Maximizing Learner Potential position paper attached below, in case … Continue reading →

1. First today, another excellent blog post from Alexandra Mihai, this one on Problem Based Learning https://educationalist.substack.com/p/problem-based-learning-pbl-let-students with the usual high-quality reading list at the end of the post. 2. Here’s this year’s longlist for the International Booker Prize, with … Continue reading →

1. Nice blog post from Claire Dembry of Cambridge English on using ‘Saylists’ in class here https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/2021/03/29/saylists-elt-classroom/ Saylist playlists are an Apple thing and they focus on songs which emphasise a single sound for practice purposes; here’s the <ch> one … Continue reading →

1. Here’s a Think Like a Plastic Detective project and competition from National Geographic Learning, plus a video-recording of the related webinar that escaped my attention (but not that of 1,500 other people) last week: https://www.ngl-emea.com/projectexploration PDFs of both info … Continue reading →

1. I thought this blog post by Maha Bali, Students Talk to Me About Webcams, was an exemplary, really interesting piece of co-authorship by a teacher and her students: https://blog.mahabali.me/educational-technology-2/students-talk-to-me-about-webcams/ 2. Malgorithm is a good neologism, I reckon. It’s the … Continue reading →

1. Many of the readers of these messages of mine are indebted in one way or another to A S Hornby. Some of you have benefited from MA scholarships and some have attended summer schools and workshops funded by the … Continue reading →

1. David Malpass is the President of the World Bank Group, which makes him an important person in all our futures, I guess. He’s giving a talk for the LSE at 17:30 UK time on Monday, 29th March on Tackling … Continue reading →