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Thursday, 2nd April (Cambridge)
1. Jim McKinley is giving the next (online) seminar in UCL’s Academic Writing series at 16:00 UK time on 9th April on Beyond polishing: Generative AI, academic voice, and the future of student writing. More info and registration here https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2026/apr/beyond-polishing-generative-ai-academic-voice-and-future-student-writing … Continue reading
Tuesday, 31st March (Cambridge)
1. Short but not too short notice, I hope: How much education does a teacher need? is the intriguing title of the OECD webinar tomorrow, 1st April, at 09:00 UK time with speakers from South Africa, Estonia, Australia and the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Brock 'Re Education', education, Education quality, Ethnologue, learning, N A T E S O L, O E C D, OLDaily, teachers, teaching, writing
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Thursday, 5th February (Cambridge)
I missed a post on Tuesday, as I was clearing out my parents’ house up in Yorkshire. Amongst (many!) other things, I found my father’s medal for the Under 12 100 yards from 1939 in the drawer of his desk … Continue reading
Tuesday, 27th January (Cambridge)
1. The first of two I’ve pilfered from LinkedIn, this one from World Englishes, courtesy of Richard Smith (thank you, Richard!), WE, ELF and ELT: Perspectives on English and applied linguistics by Henry Widdowson https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/weng.70010 (PDF below as well.) Here’s … Continue reading
Thursday, 22nd January (Cambridge)
1. FutureLearn’s list of “the most important skills and characteristics for teachers in a handy 10-point list”, What makes a good teacher? https://www.futurelearn.com/info/blog/what-makes-a-good-teacher Guess what’s included in their list before you read the piece! What does it mean to be … Continue reading
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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