Or critical thinking for language learners Paraphrasing the infamous song: What’s {socks} got to do with it?At first glance, nothing.Look again, and socks turn out to be the perfect way to help learners spot and reflect on their own cognitive…
They’ve found a city beneath the Giza pyramid, did you hear?! With the army of ‘content creators’ eagerly generating various types of AI-generated content online under the motto ‘the more words, the higher the traffic’, April Fool’s Day might soon…
Poetry, synthetic voices, and what makes us human This is just to say I made a video for students to guess – human or AI? It went well,so fun,so full of surprise. I’ve already shared a few activities based on…
Hot Off the Press: AI Literacy Training Cards, Anthropomorphism, iSpring, and learning never stops I created this course as part of the iSpring Challenge 2025, and honestly, the timing couldn’t have been better. I had the idea, iSpring provided the…
Read-alouds in turns, anyone? Any fans of RAT – reading aloud in turns from a text – here? It’s probably not the most popular technique these days, to say the least. I reckon it might rank second among the most…
Confession time. I like to add a personal touch to my presentations by sneaking in an Easter egg – or a couple – hidden surprises. I know they may go unnoticed (and in most cases, they do), but I love…
24 January 2025, 16:00 (UK time): Personalisation 2.0, or AI for Effective Learning Experiences Fancy joining me for a session on how AI can help personalise language learning? I’m happy to invite you to the masterclass I’ll be delivering this…
Making Authentic Input More Accessible: Elaborated Input Cheers to 2025 and the thrill of new experiments! All experiments begin with good ideas. I’ve never been a huge fan of adapted versions. Authentic language? Gone. Nuance? Bye-bye. That said, I can…
Designing multimodal activities for language students Busy? Same here. I was working on a new set of multimodal tasks for assessment, but, as usually happens, I came up with something extra – a new idea to add to my favourite…
Remember Kodak’s slogan, ‘You Press the Button, We Do the Rest’? Kodak’s goal was to let amateurs take pictures without worrying about the technicalities. The process was simple: customers simply took their pictures, sent their cameras to the Kodak factory,…
