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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
Thursday, 25th September (Cambridge)
1. First up today, Familiar Strangers, an ambitious post by Jamie Keddie on his LessonStream blog, “in which (says Jamie), with the help of three videos, I want to explore how media shapes the way we see each other and … Continue reading
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Tagged chatgpt, Describe image, education, Engelsberg Ideas, health, Jamie Keddie, mental-health, Russell Stannard, teaching, teenage sleep
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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
Thursday, 10th July (Cambridge)
An unavoidably vain attempt today to keep up with developments in AI and thinking about AI. 1. The New York Times recently ran an opinion piece by David Brooks, Are We Really Willing to Become Dumber?, about an MIT (Massachusetts … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, AI and Education, artificial-intelligence, chatgpt, Claude, education, Elon Musk, Grok, Joe Dale, MIT, Ness Labs, Rolling Stone, teachingenglish, technology
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Tuesday, 24th June (Cambridge)
1. Compare and contrast, if you will, the latest edition of Ethan Mollick’s Guide to AI … https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-right-now-a-quick-guide Interesting that Mollick very confidently declares: For most people who want to use AI seriously, you should pick one of three systems: … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, artificial-intelligence, chatgpt, education, Ethan Mollick, Generative AI, Grammar Girl, refugees, Romanian village, technology
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Thursday, 19th June (Cambridge)
1. Here’s a piece by Johanna Alonso from Inside Higher Ed (IHE), The Handwriting Revolution https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/curriculum/2025/06/17/amid-ai-plagiarism-more-professors-turn-handwritten-work Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education forever, some professors are taking their classes back to the pre-internet era. A free account with IHE allows … Continue reading
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Tagged ai, education, english, learning, Mark Kermode, Oracy, teachers, teaching, teachingenglish, Testing & Assessment, writing
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Tuesday, 10th June (Richmond)
1. I’m publishing early today, in the hope that some of you get chance to attend Geoff Mulgan’s UCL ‘Lunch Hour Lecture’, Shaping Better Public Institutions, at 13:00 UK time today, Tuesday 10th June. More info and registration here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-hour-lecture-shaping-better-public-institutions-tickets-1364004055849?aff=oddtdtcreator … Continue reading
Thursday, 15th May (Richmond)
1. My NILE colleague Rose Aylett was Anne Fox’s guest on the 306th edition of the Absolutely Intercultural podcast recently, Power in language, Critical pedagogy, Spectactors (sic), Taboo topics https://www.absolutely-intercultural.com/?p=5378 We’ll be talking about how you can use language to … Continue reading
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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Tagged ai, BOLD, duolingo, education, Ethan Mollick, fall of saigon, learning, teaching, teaching for success, technology
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