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Thursday, 11th December (Cambridge)
1. A sample from a wondrous (and wondrously expensive) book by David B. Wilson, The Experience of Expatriate English Language Teaching https://cspcontents.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/master/samples/978-1-0364-4603-1-sample.pdf Teaching English overseas is a funny old business. Funny-ha-ha in that it has been a rich source of … Continue reading
Thursday, 4th December (Cambridge)
1. We’re not an especially happy bunch here in the UK at present. Here’s the latest Ipsos survey of UK public opinion, taken following last week’s budget https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/britons-more-pessimistic-about-economy-post-budget-though-some-individual-measures-supported 56% say they are ‘more concerned’ about the economy post budget and … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, artificial-intelligence, Czech Republic, education, Ipsos, John Kampfner, Linked|In AI course, NATESOL event, news, technology, Theremin, TRIO approach, UKFIET
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Thursday, 20th November (Cambridge)
1. The first of two events next Thursday, 27th November, with an early 08:00 UK time start for this one from LanguageCert, Creating Spaces for Conversation with Anna Hasper & Kieran Donaghy who “will share practical frameworks and strategies for … Continue reading
Thursday, 6th November (Cambridge)
1. On Thursday next week, 13th November, at 15:00 UK time there’s an ECML webinar for teachers and teacher trainers at primary and secondary level on “Mediation in teaching, learning and assessment” which will present the achievements of the ECML … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, artificial-intelligence, ECML, education, John Kampfner, learning, Little |Berlin, Mediation, Sahrawi, teaching, teachingenglish, technology, Western Sahara
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Tuesday, 21st October (Richmond)
1. First up today, the latest version of Ethan Mollick’s (Opinionated) Guide to Using AI https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-using-ai Click on the images to enlarge them. Every few months I write an opinionated guide to how to use AI, but now I write … Continue reading
Wednesday, 8th October (Cambridge)
1. If you answer yes to any of these questions: then the ECML are pretty confident that their webinar at 15:00 UK time on Thursday 16th October, Supporting multilingual classrooms,will be of interest to you! More info here https://www.ecml.at/en/Resources/Webinars and … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, E L T J, ECML, education, H L T, Human networks, learning, Mario Rinvolucri, Multilingual classrooms, teaching, technology
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Thursday, 2nd October (Cambridge)
1. It was National Poetry Day here in the UK today. There’s a good website with a wide range of classroom activities (and much more besides) https://forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poetry-day/poems-and-resources/ 2. High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? is a piece for … Continue reading
Tuesday, 30th September (Richmond)
Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ 1. Richard Watson Todd writes an enjoyable and enjoyably opinionated blog called The Grumpy Old Academic https://grumpy.hcommons.org/ He’s only that grumpy in real life with people who submit the articles they’ve promised him very late, though. The … Continue reading
Wednesday, 20th August (Cambridge)
Blog version: https://roycross.blog/ This post is late because of my nine-month-old grandson, Mateo. We’ve just spent five days together with his mum, Emily, making a trip from London to Yorkshire to see his great-grandmother, Pam. Those five days have been … Continue reading
Friday, 18th July (on the train from Norwich to Cambridge – or would have been, had Greater Anglia wifi been up to it!)
Only one post this week, a bit longer than usual, as I got in a right tiz-woz over some work I had to do for NILE with French school teachers of English yesterday and today. On reflection, the Ted Hughes … Continue reading
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