ELT Buzz Digest - Dec. 1st
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My reading tip this week is this Verge article which adroitly addresses the false notion of LLM intelligence and at the same time, linguistic determinism. The incorrect belief that language is where intelligence originates. It’s a topic I’m oft frustrated with as I see educators with the mistaken belief, that language is the root of intelligence, confounding language with thought itself. Language represents thought but intelligence/thought itself is still what makes learning happen and is the genie in the bottle. Language is but a result of thought (with a small feedback loop).
Welcome to December!
David - ELT-Buzzer-In-Chief
James Meek: Computers that want things - London Review Of Books
Synergetic Baloney - Geoff Jordan
Why you need your whole body – from head to toes – to think
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
How Big Tech is silently colonizing education - Education Futures
The future of AI - Nature. 6 Opinions.
What does it mean to be “AI Generated”? - YouTube
Amazon Data Center Linked to Cluster of Rare Cancers - Health
How Many Languages? - ELT Buzz Video Lessons
Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize - The Atlantic
Warding Off Classroom AI - Peter Greene
The future of languages is feminine - LinkedIN
‘What Are You Doing on AI?’: How This District Added It to Career Education
Ep163. Self-Assessment and Learner Autonomy - Podcast
Video Lesson Of The Week - Christmas Craft Lesson - Get the free lesson materials.
