English Meet 2025: report
A report on another excellent and uplifting ‘English Meet’, with six teachers sharing enthusiasms and good practice.
Read MoreJohn Warner's 'More Than Words: how to think about writing in the age of AI'
John Warner’s More Than Words: how to think about writing in the age of AI is an early and eloquent response to a technology which is particularly challenging for English teachers.
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence, Real Literacy
Artificial Intelligence: real literacy is a short book by Paul Matthews and Jason Gulya that is blessedly free from nonsensical hype, and gives some practical and sensible suggestions for classroom teachers.
Read MoreIrish Advisory Council: AI in Education
Thoughts on the first Advice Paper on Education in Ireland, from the AI Advisory Council, February 2025.
Read MoreNeil Postman's 'Technopoly'
Thoughts on Neil Postman’s wise and prescient 1992 book Technopoly.
Read More'In the Real World'
All too often teachers have to listen to that condescending cliché ‘In the real world’.
Read MoreThomas Newkirk's 'The Art of Slow Reading'
A revisiting of Thomas Newkirk’s book The Art of Slow Reading in the new AI world.
Read MoreAI thinkers for English teachers
Links to thinkers about artificial intelligence, whose writings I find helpful in navigating its implications for English.
Read MoreA special Fortnightly on English teaching and AI
A compendium of valuable writing about AI in the light of the English classroom.
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