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All the "buzz" in ELT for this week - March 03

Mar 03, 2025

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Dear Teachers,

Please find this week’s HUGE digest below!

This digest, I’d like to highlight some authors that critically evaluate and assess Ai in education. First, see this recent article by Marc Watkins. He does a great job highlighting the IP theft technology companies have undertaken. Audrey Watters is a must for clear thinking about education and how the machine paradigm is trying to steal its, yours, our soul. For the business end of technology companies and an explanation of the “rot economy”, you can’t go wrong with Ed Zitron. Peter Greene just tells us educators how it is with ed-tech. Gary Marcus is a must for knowing being an authority on Ai and telling us exactly what is hype and not. Finally, big shout out to Ben Williamson from the Univ. of Edinburg - always on top of ed-tech!

Keep thinking critically about ed-tech and what we do as professionals.

All the best, David
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