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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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Thursday, 24th April (Cambridge)
1. An interesting piece from Chatham House on the relationship between China and India, which they suggest will be of ‘greater long-term significance’ than the relationship between the US and China https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/2025-04/2025-04-23-how-china-india-relations-will-shape-asia-global-order-bajpaee-jie.pdf The China–US relationship is widely regarded as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Booker Prize, Chatham House, China, education, India, language, learning, Mosfilm, natesol, Tarkovsky, teaching, writing
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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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Tagged ai, artificial-intelligence, BOLD, Chatham House, education, NILE, Norwich, streaming, teaching, technology
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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
Tuesday, 4th March (Richmond)
1. NATESOL’s 41st Annual Conference, Learners and Learning, is on Saturday 17th May and is a hybrid event, online via Zoom or on-site at Manchester Metropolitan University. All speakers get to attend free and the deadline for the submission of … Continue reading
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Tagged cuttlefish, education, eltj, english, history, natesol, teaching, teachingenglish, writing
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Thursday, 13th February (Cambridge)
1. Here’s what appears to be an open-access article from the Times Higher Education, The UK’s redundancy crisis: four views from the front line https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-redundancy-crisis-four-views-front-line Higher education news feeds are currently dominated by near-daily announcements of large job cuts across … Continue reading
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
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
Thursday, 19th December (Cambridge)
1. The inaugural issue of the ELT Classroom Research Journal has just been published https://eltcrj.com/v1i1/ The ELT Classroom Research Journal is for teachers to share their insights with peers across the globe in a manner that is practical and approachable … Continue reading
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