The ELT Buzz Digest - Nov. 3rd
All the "buzz" in English language teaching this week.
Dear Teachers,
This week’s educational “buzz” below.
Datacenters, datacenters, datacenters. Altman wants the world covered in them. I wish every educator would take one trip into one, one of the new ones … you’d see the future and it ain’t pretty. I did last year in Ohio and until you stand there and see how much waste, power, energy, water and just utter empty dreams of $ are in the middle of good farmland, nowhere, employing nobody - will you tune into what AI is attempting to do. Digitize everything, make a mirror of reality - all so you, education will pay for it, must pay for it. Read some of the articles below about datacenters this week. I beg you.
Best,
David - ELT-Buzzer-In-Chief
Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students - NY Times
We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It’s in Your Electric Bill
AI Writing is Taking Over - YouTube
The REAL Reason Trump and Big Tech Want AI in Our Schools YouTube
The promised land of data center - Apublica
What Are Human Rights? - ELT Buzz Video Lessons
Dispelling some misconceptions of English-medium instruction | English Today
Getting Students Speaking- ELT Buzz Newsletter
The Housefly Video Lesson. - ELT Buzz
Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid New Yorker
The Resilience Pivot: How Bell’s Collapse Signals a Reckoning for Language Schools
£3m government AI ‘content store’ to help plan lessons
The Hidden Price Of Every ChatGPT Query: How Streaming AI Built An Empire On $1.50 An Hour
Derrida vs Searle: The obscure object of language
Video Lesson Of The Week - The Invention of Thanksgiving
