The ELT Buzz Digest
All the "buzz" in education, and English language teaching. Nov. 03.
Dear Teachers,
Here is the ELT Buzz Digest for this week. LOTS!
My recommendation and tip this week is THIS fine piece of writing, thinking by Ben Williamson, a professor in the UK. He outlines the much wider implications for use of Ai in education, in a very thoughtful piece. Please take a look. Also, click the link to YouTube below about a teacher from Taiwan - crazy stuff! Happy teaching and learning this week! David
The Case Against Grammar Correction
WCF - Written Corrective Feedback on student writing is a staple of teachers. Here, in this seminal paper, John Truscott tells us it is wrong, …
Self-directed Learners know what they want by Ron Morrain
Self-directed learners know what they want when it comes to their personal development and learning. Self-directed learners typically ask themselves …
Just So AI Stories by Audrey Watters
In 1902, Rudyard Kipling published Just So Stories for Children, a collection of short, origin stories of how various animals acquired their best …
Activism in Language Teaching and Language Teacher Education - Open Source
Materials writing conversations #19: vague briefs by By Pete
Materials writing conversations #19: vague briefs
Thoughts from an ELT writer | LinkedIn
Katherine Bilsborough | A week in the life of an ELT write
There is no Artificial Irony by Benjamin Riley
Large-language models are dead-metaphor machines I don’t remember the name of the woman who made a recommendation that changed the way I understand …
Fired anti-China English teacher convicted arsonist! - YouTube
I have uncovered the identity of an alcoholic British man who drunkenly told a young Chinese boy he was teaching English to online that Taiwan is not part of China.
Google unveils invisible ‘watermark’ for AI-generated text by Elizabeth Gibney
Real-world demonstration in chatbot responses could encourage other firms to label material produced by AI. Researchers at Google DeepMind in London …
Mistaken Identity - ELT Buzz Video Lessons
A funny story about a woman who gets a new lease on life but runs into trouble with God. Can students guess the punchline?
The "Sterile Neatness” of AI Writing by Maha Bali
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes, 48 seconds I was tweeting about the shock of finding someone in an open course (an adult, an educator) using AI to …
Decline and fall: how university education became infantilised by David Butterfield
Last month, after 21 years studying and teaching Classics at the University of Cambridge, I resigned.
SLTE Part 4: How it could be done better by Geoff Jordan
The three previous parts of this discussion of SLTE were such “free” adaptions of Chapter 10 of Jordan & long (2023) ELT: Now and how it Could Be that …
Irrational Exuberance by Audrey Watters
There's been quite a bit of mumbling and grumbling in the last few days (weeks? months?) that this whole AI thing might be a bubble and that the …
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Teacher on ELT Buzz
Updated collection of essays about education, teaching, language and technology. Insights into the ephemeral and challenging world of being a …
