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Tuesday, 30th June (Cambridge)
This will be the last ‘Free Resources’ message until Tuesday 28th July, by which time (Cross fingers crossed) we will have installed a new boiler in Boba’s Zagreb flat, not (Cross fingers still crossed) had to fish Mateo out of … Continue reading
Tuesday, 16th June (Cambridge)
1. Global Englishes: Research agendas and tasks in English as a lingua franca by Will Baker, Fan Fang & Telma Gimenez has just been made available open access by Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-teaching/article/global-englishes-research-agendas-and-tasks-in-english-as-a-lingua-franca/9D8CABD3D9DEFBC5B45AB7D66237052A PDF below. Global Englishes, and within that … Continue reading
Thursday, 28th May (Cambridge)
1. Ethan Mollick’s latest blog post, Choosing to Stay Human … …means choosing when and how to use AI, https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/choosing-to-stay-human If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look … Continue reading
Thursday, 14th May (Cambridge)
1. Here’s a good ‘long read’ for the weekend from our correspondent in Ecuador, the first piece in a series for The New Yorker by Jay Caspian Kang, Will A.I. Make College Obsolete? https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/will-ai-make-college-obsolete A few weeks ago, while I … Continue reading
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Thursday, 7th May (Cambridge)
1. Here’s Michael Feldstein’s latest post on his eLiterate blog, Claude Interviews Me About How AI Works https://eliterate.us/claude-interviews-me-about-how-ai-works/ It’s a long read for the weekend, I suggest. Feldstein’s Claude has learnt (from Feldstein) to be very articulate. I’m returning (says … Continue reading
Thursday, 23rd April (Brighton)
1. The three plenary talks so far from the IATEFL conference here in Brighton: Patricia Angoy’s talk on Tuesday, English language – the coloniser. A black female leader’s response https://youtu.be/75qt67_iBWc Danny Norrington-Davies and Richard Chinn’s talk on Wednesday, Emergent language: … Continue reading
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Thursday, 12th March (Cambridge)
1. A thoughtful piece for Engelsberg Ideas by Rob Macaire, the only UK ambassador to be arrested in recent times that I know of, Iran and the perils of fighting the last war https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/iran-and-the-perils-of-fighting-the-last-war/ Away from the rarified atmosphere of … Continue reading
Thursday, 5th March (Cambridge)
1. Belonging Matters, two practical webinars from TeachingEnglish, starting at 09:00 UK time on Friday 13th March, with experts from Southeast Asia which focus on learner well-being and including home languages in the classroom to create a sense of belonging: … Continue reading
Tuesday, 17th February (Cambridge)
An AI focus for the first three of today’s offerings, possibly a bit doomy and gloomy … 1. You can read or listen to this alarmist (realist?) piece for Fortune by Jake Angelo, Microsoft AI chief gives it 18 months … Continue reading
Tuesday, 20th January (Cambridge)
1. From Andy Brock’s Re Education blog, Education Predictions 2026, from a very wide range of contributors https://abrock.substack.com/p/re-education-issue-27-education-predictions Trying to make sense looking backwards is hard enough, but to look forwards when things seem constantly changeable is even more demanding. … Continue reading
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