40% of employees are worried about losing their job to #AI according to a recent survey 69b11c8a13403b693243c0ad--aied-landscape-briefing.netlify.app

Video Games and Learning Skills: What Research Shows Explore how video games develop real learning skills - from cognitive research to game-based learning strategies backed by universities and scientists.

"There is something telling about the fact that a person can spend three hours stuck on a puzzle in a strategy game, completely absorbed, and then claim they "can't focus" when it comes to studying. That contradiction ...shows... a mismatch in environment." egw.news/gaming/news/...

Effective #reading instruction in low-and-middle-income countries: What the evidence shows. geeap.org/wp-content/u... 70% of ten-year-olds in LMICs cannot read a simple text.

Strong arguments for not using #AIdetection tools oerc.ox.ac.uk/ai-centre/ai... #AI

The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Feedback What new research tells us about the pedagogical perils of "dehumanised" feedback

Research into human vs #AI #feedback on learners bit.ly/4u5qwKG

Teacher v chatbot: my journey into the classroom in the age of AI The long read: I was a newcomer, negotiating all of usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack

What does it mean to be a teacher in the age of #AI? www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Is AI going to make us better educators? How artificial intelligence could push educators back to the fundamentals of meaningful learning

As #AI forces us to rethink #assessment, etc. there's a chance it will make us better educators laurenowens.substack.com/p/is-ai-goin...

From AI literacy to AI fluency: Ten shifts for educators Explore ten key shifts for educators to move from AI literacy to AI fluency, enhancing teaching and learning through innovative and responsible AI integration.

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I’m worried my boyfriend’s use of AI is affecting his ability to think for himself | Annalisa Barbieri Overdependence on chatbots is a growing problem, and though your boyfriend’s ADHD may be a factor, he needs to find the root of his anxiety

I’m worried my boyfriend’s use of AI is affecting his ability to think for himself | Annalisa Barbieri

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Listen Back | Teachers Talk Radio Missed a Teacher Talk Radio live show? Have no fear! You can listen back to the live shows as a podcast here.

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Listen to Patrick Jackson talk about raising awareness of the environment with primary children in school and in their neighborhoods tomorrow night at 21:00 GMT on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social.

Slow learning "The Educationalist", by Alexandra Mihai

An argument for #slowlearning in the classroom educationalist.substack.com/p/slow-learn...

The Toxic Simplicity of "Writing is Thinking" If you ever feel the urge to say “writing is thinking”, you need to pause for a second and qualify it. Instead, you could say: Writing is thinking for me; or Writing can be thinking There you go.

The Toxic Simplicity of "Writing is Thinking"
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Asking GenAI the right questions improves writing skill doi.org/10.1016/j.ca...

Listen Back | Teachers Talk Radio Missed a Teacher Talk Radio live show? Have no fear! You can listen back to the live shows as a podcast here.

A link to the recording: www.ttradio.org/listenback/e...

Join me at 9pm (UK time) tonight on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social when I dive into the global teacher shortage. Why is it happening? What are the consequences? What keeps teachers in the profession? With input from guests Shrouk Anany, Alicia Lara, Alejandra Lucía, and Ashish Sharma

Language Education and Technology: The Late Late Show with Graham Stanley | Teachers Talk Radio How has technology in education changed over the years? My guest, Alan Bray, gives his perspective from when he first started using computers in the classroom in the 1980s until the present day. 

Listen Back! Language Education and Technology: The Late Late Show with @grahamstanley.bsky.social
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History Timeline Generator - A Tool for Making Personalized Historical Timelines The History Timeline Generator enables you to easily create customized timelines for historical events through AI. This online tool assists in organizing and presenting the development of historical e...

History timeline generator via @nikpeachey.bsky.social history-timeline.net/home/index/i...

If you missed the live show, you can listen to the recording here: teacherstalkradio.podbean.com/e/language-e...

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

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Join me tomorrow at 21:00 (UK time) for a show dedicated to language education and technology on @ttradioofficial.bsky.social

Open access (free download) publicaion on #GenAI in #highereducation www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

If You’re Boycotting AI Over Water, You’re Missing the Full Picture Understanding the Environmental Cost of Our Digital Lives

It's not as simple as some make out. open.substack.com/pub/staciele...

My cultural awakening: an Eddie Izzard routine inspired me to learn French – and get a job with the EU Being able to understand the comedian talking in French in his Dress to Kill show led to me learning several languages and working on the continent

Language learning inspired by comedian www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

What We Give Up When We Let AI Decide Automation Is Easy. Judgment Is Not.

Why letting AI to grade student work may not be a wise idea: marcwatkins.substack.com/p/what-we-gi...

Used wisely, it could give interesting data to teachers / teacher educators. It also records and annotates classroom conversations. Of course, it might just be implemented by institutions to 'police' students and teachers. Either way, this technology is now here, so I think it's worth knowing about.

We tried to build an AI vision model which can tell, in real time, which students are attentive and which ones are distracted in a classroom. We recently ran an interesting experiment with Masters&#3... We tried to build an AI vision model which can tell, in real time, which students are attentive and which ones are distracted in a classroom. We recently ran an interesting experiment with Masters' U...

What do you think of this use of 'multimodal AI'? (via @downes.bsky.social) www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... The experiment used AI to monitor activity during a live class, and the system used was able to point out students who weren't paying attention, when attention shifted, etc.

Europeans challenge US big tech with alternative app menu Driven by concerns over privacy and geopolitical vulnerability, Europeans are increasingly adopting local "app menus" and open-source software to reduce reliance on US big tech.

European alternative tech cybernews.com/tech/europea...

IATEFL Conference Preview - Plenaries IATEFL Conference Preview 2026 kindly sponsored by

Looking forward to the #IATEFL conference in Brighton in April this year. Here are the plenary sessions: sites.google.com/iatefl.org/i...