ELT Buzz News Report
All the "buzz" in English Language Teaching for May 25th.
Dear teachers,
A busy, busy week on the blogging front. See all the “buzz’ in our report list below.
My reading tip this week is definitely, the brilliant and thoughtful ideas of “The Case For Human Writing”. It’s a review of John Warner’s book “More Than Words”, about the importance of writing as “thought” and that education is all about cultivating thinking in our students. It’s essential that students write on their own, use their own words. Generative AI does not think, thus what it produces is not writing. It’s worth pondering that and insisting on students writing, not generating text. Education is a journey, a process and not a product, an answer, a result.
Also, below see two things; 1. The petition about the CEFR and native speakerism. 2. The article decrying the call for “AI Literacy”. Both important topics.
Student Perceptions of AI 2025 - Artificial intelligence
How the right to education is undermined by AI
What About The Effects of Generative AI Chatbots on Children?
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Science of AI in Education
Why ELT Gets Native Norms Wrong
Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
Something rotten in AI research
AI in Education: Strapping a Turbo Engine to a Horse’s Ass
The midification of higher education
The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury 1951. Audiobook. Read Along.
The AI Cheating Dilemma on College Campuses -The AI Show
