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Thursday, 18th December (Cambridge)
This slightly longer than normal Free Resources message will be the last one till Tuesday 6th January. If you’re celebrating Christmas, be sure to make the most of it, and I wish everyone peace and happiness for 2026! 1. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Britain's Best High Streets, British Council, Dirty Dozen, education, English UK, Global Perceptions, Globe of History, House of Lords, Ipsos, news, Pesticide Action Network, politics, Some typefaces feel different, sustainability, technology, Veracity Index, Working from home
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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, 27th November (Cambridge)
1. First of three pieces on potential future uses of AI, Job for 2027: Senior Director of Million-Dollar Regexes from Tim O’Brien https://www.oreilly.com/radar/job-for-2027-senior-director-of-million-dollar-regexes/ I don’t understand all of it, not even the title, but I get the gist! 2. Secondly, … Continue reading
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Tagged A I, art, books, Cognitive decline, education, Fenix, Geoff Mulgan, Language Teaching and English Literature, Migration, The Flynn effect, writing
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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, 4th November (Richmond)
1. You get generous (and nonetheless slightly frustrating) extracts from the London Review of Books Novel Approaches podcast here https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/ Try the latest one on Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ with Andrew O’Hagan, Tom Crewe and Clare Bucknell https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings/novel-approaches-kidnapped-by-robert-louis-stevenson 2. This … Continue reading
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Tagged 'V' Levels, Amol Rajan, Data centres, education, Katharine Birbalsingh, Kidnapped, learning, LRB, Robert Louis Stevenson, teachers, teaching, technology
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Thursday, 30th October (Cambridge)
1. ‘The more languages you know, the better you are’: learners’ pride in being multilingual and their motivation for language learning is a recent open-access Taylor & Francis article by Giulia Sulis & Sarah Mercer from Graz University and Astrid … 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
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