The ELT Buzz Digest - August 25th
All the "buzz" in English language teaching
Dear Subscribers,
Enjoy this week’s digest below! My reading tip this week is a hard hitting, powerful piece of journalism by Jeffrey Yu - The Assembly Line In The Sky. So few really understand the amount of “lipstick” that is on the pig that is Ai. I do. I worked endless hours for a decade, I know how much we paid for “mechanical turks”. The front end that you see of Ai comes at a large cost of human despair, pain, precarity and even death. Please read. Ask yourself, is this what you want to the world to become? Myself to become? Jeffrey mentions Karen’s fine book but fails to mention the military involvement/investment in the growth of “Ai” and how the genocide in Gaza is nothing but a computational solution. Ugh.
Regards,
David - ELT-Buzzer-In-Chief
Variations on the Em-Dash: From Flash of Insight to AI as Stylized Cognition - Wow!
The Optimization Trap - How good intentions of using Ai go awry.
A Root Of The Problem - The problem of “betterism”.
Education Department quietly removes rules for teaching English learners
Generative AI is not a ‘calculator for words’. 5 reasons why this idea is misleading
13 Deadly Sins of PD - Don’t do these when presenting to teachers
More than just English: How we talk matters
Teacher Talking Time: Is it really that bad? - IHW
Letter | In Praise of Blue-Book Exams - Back is the Future
Extensive Watching - Principles and Procedures
The oral exit ticket - Rachel Tsateri
I’ve Always Thought "Reclassification” Of ELLs Was The Wrong Priority & New Research Supports That Position - Larry Ferlazzo
Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology
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