Learning another language could be a total game-changer for your cognitive health.

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AI arrives in societies already marked by inequality. In Africa and across the Global South, access to reliable internet, computing power and digital literacy is profoundly uneven. The danger is that AI will not only mirror these inequalities, but will magnify them. If we are not vigilant, the algorithm will become the new frontier of exclusion.

Does AI risk creating a super powered attention vampire? OpenAI has launched a television advertising campaign. I spotted it on Channel 4’s streaming platform a week or so ago, but apparently it is on live terrestrial TV too. The advert is deliberately wholesome: a brother and sister planning a trip together, with helpful captions

This is part of a series of AI prompts that can help to promote critical thinking. This one can help you design tasks for any text, based on Bloom's Taxonomy.

First, designing a better classroom means redesigning the work we ask students to do. It requires a deliberate shift away from “disposable assignments” (essays written for an audience of one and then promptly forgotten) and toward “renewable” projects that have a life beyond the grade.

Learn how to build a supportive, engaging classroom community where students feel confident, connected, and excited to learn together.

I used Sonalab to produce this really interesting podcast on the role of body language in communication and language learning.

This has been designed to be used as a kind of emotional journal, so you can click on the one you are feeling and write a sentence or two about it and why you are feeling that way.

Regardless of the subject or age group we teach, most of us would like our students to think more critically about what they are learning and how it relates to the world around them.

Why Students Need Clarity, Not Chaos. - The future of teaching with AI doesn’t require omniscience. It requires courage to draw lines, explain why they matter, and revise them together when the world shifts again.

There is a reason why Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed he would only be able to teach one other person in his lifetime, and at a stretch. Now some think AI puts teaching jobs at risk but I don’t think this is right for three reasons.

This exploratory meta-analysis synthesises current research on the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated feedback compared to traditional human-provided feedback. Drawing on 41 studies involving a total of 4813 students, the findings reveal no statistically significant differences in learning performance between students who received AI-generated feedback and those who received human-provided feedback. The pooled effect size was small and statistically insignificant (Hedge’s g = 0.25, CI [−0.11; 0.60]), indicating that AI feedback is potentially as effective as human feedback. 

By Nataliya Spirydovich, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YHRJ4554 We’ve all been there: students freeze up in conversation practice, or the more confident ones dominate while the quieter ones fade into the background. Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots can shift that

Do you want to become your own boss teaching English? Taking the leap from teaching groups in a school to becoming your own boss teaching English one-to-one

Our focus, then, must pivot from teaching tool-specific competency to nurturing durable critical thinking—the cognitive scaffolding that allows a student to adapt to any future tool. The value of a degree is no longer in the information students accumulate, but in the intellectual friction they learn to tolerate, leverage, and master.