Tag Archives: ai

Tuesday, 13th May (Cambridge)

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, 1st May (Cambridge)

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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Thursday, 17th April (Cambridge)

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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Thursday, 10th April (Richmond)

1. First up tonight, a good news, bad news piece from The Guardian, Energy demands from AI datacentres to quadruple by 2030, says report https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/10/energy-demands-from-ai-datacentres-to-quadruple-by-2030-says-report The IEA forecast indicates a sharp rise in the requirements of AI, but said threat … Continue reading

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Thursday, 3rd April (Richmond)

1. The Healthy Linguistic Diet team, Thomas Bak and Dina Mehmedbegovic-Smith, relaunched their website on the International Day of Multilingualism last week. Here it is! https://healthylinguisticdiet.com/bali-hld-model-launching-on-the-international-day-of-multilingualism-27-3-2025/ 2. I hope this one from The New Yorker is accessible, Are We Taking … Continue reading

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Thursday, 27th March (Cambridge)

1. TeachingEnglish has just had a two-month focus on Planning lessons and courses. I’ve picked out three items from the riches available: A. The recordings of the three sessions in the online Creating lessons that work mini-event last week: “three … Continue reading

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Thursday, 6th February (Cambridge)

1. Here, courtesy of The Lexical Lab newsletter, is the BBC’s history of its own involvement in English teaching, Do You Speak English? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026tw0 Even I’m too young to remember Walter and Connie, the first ‘English by television’ programme, but … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 28th January (Richmond)

1. Ethan Mollick has updated his guide to Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/which-ai-to-use-now-an-updated-opinionated Every six months or so, I have written an opinionated guide for individual users of AI, not specializing in any one type … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 14th January (Richmond)

1. John Kampfner’s latest post on his blog, Citizen of Everywhere, on the next – anything’s possible, he reminds us! – prime minister of Germany, Could the AfD seize power? https://johnkampfner.substack.com/p/could-the-afd-seize-power 2. A piece for World University News about determined … Continue reading

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Tuesday, 26th November (Richmond)

1. Some good clear analysis here from Carbon Brief of the final outcomes of COP 29 in Baku https://www.carbonbrief.org/cop29-key-outcomes-agreed-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-baku/ Tidily sorted into sections, which might lend itself to a whole class activity with pairs of students each responsible for summarising/reporting … Continue reading

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