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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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Tuesday, 18th November (Richmond)
1. The Cambridge Dictionary ‘word of the year’ is one I’ve never heard or read or used https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-dictionary-reveals-word-of-the-year-2025 Should I be worried, I wonder? 2. The Flipping Book Club “is free and is intended for those who wish to practice … Continue reading
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
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, 17th June (Richmond)
1. This Thursday, 19th June, at 15:30 UK time there’s the last NATESOL event of this academic year, an interestingly different ‘special panel discussion’ with Robert Merrell from Manchester Adult Education Services and two adult ESOL learners, Rabia and Lul, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, David Tennant, grammar, Greta Scacchi, King Lear, Mario Rinvolucri, NATESOL webinar, Oracroke Island, Richard Wilson, Rod Bolitho, sports, Toby Jones, writing
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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, 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, 18th March (Richmond)
1. Two free from this month’s Literary Review: Sea of Troubles, a review by Owen Matthews of a ‘brilliantly written, convincingly argued and compelling book’, Baltic: The Future of Europe by Oliver Moody https://literaryreview.co.uk/sea-of-troubles Death from the Clouds, a review … Continue reading
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Tagged art, baltics, book-reviews, books, colm-toibin, hiroshima, joseph-oneill, writing
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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, 23rd January (Cambridge)
1. A lot of the stuff on tools4Dev you have to pay for, but their blog often has interesting (free!) posts, like this one, How to Write a Monitoring and Evaluation Report https://tools4dev.org/blog/how-to-write-a-monitoring-and-evaluation-report/ and this one, Monitoring and Evaluation Tools … Continue reading
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