The ELT Buzz Digest - March 12th
All the "buzz" in English language teaching
Dear Teachers,
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My reading tip this week is Parker Palmer’s story about how Iranian teachers embraced his book “Courage to Teach”. It’s a story that tells us lots of how educated, how embracing of knowledge, of learing, of strangers; how “modern” and enlightened Iran truly is.
I say this having once taught at a middle school filled with Iranian students (North York, Toronto), so many of my students now successful doctors, singers, business leaders, even one, a surgeon. I think of them all at times like this … It’s so senseless. But as teachers we must show up and keep going forward. I will continue contemplating the riddle that given we are all going to die, that we all are so similar — why then are we terrorized by trivialities and ruled by infantile fears and hate that drive us to kill, war, murder each other.
Ārāmesh barāyetan, peace be in you,
David - ELT-Buzzer-In-Chief
When I heard the learn’d astronomer by Walt Whitman. Learning about science.
Real-Time Data Shows Exactly How Students Use AI on School Technology
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Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom
EP 37 - Agentic AI is here. What does it mean for Online Education? A conversation with Anna Mills.
Video Lesson Of The Week - 9 Life Lessons
