ELT Buzz Digest - Jan. 27th

All the "buzz" in English language teaching this week.

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Dear Teachers,

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This week, highly recommend the Economist article (see below) about the failure of Ed Tech in all aspects of learning. The edtech-evangelists keep wanting us to believe in this god but there is no evidence technology does anything better than traditional instruction does. Yet, it costs vasts sums more … See one of my own recent articles on the this topic HERE.

Best,
David - ELT-Buzzer-In-Chief

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• Teaching the Gaijin

• Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless

• Thin Soup - Geoff Jordan

• Google’s work in schools aims to create a ‘pipeline of future users

• GenAI in Higher Education - Bloomsbury

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• Autoethnography for language teacher education program

• The Question We Keep Avoiding in Education

• Principles and Procedures in ELT -

• Manufacturing Teachable Moments - ELT Buzz Blog

• AI and copyright – anything ‘freely available’ online is fair game, according to Google

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• You are not tired of teaching, you are overdoing it (admit it.)

• AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

• The Winter Olympics. A Full Preview Of All The Disciplines.

• Digital idiots: university professors call for ban on use of AI in Higher Education

• There’s a problem with the term “INCLUSION.” We should use THIS instead

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Video Lesson Of The Week - The Sound Collector

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