Yes, but those benefits will come later & to ordinary people. Millionaires & billionaires & corporations want to pay less tax now!

RIP Jimmy Cliff; Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and actor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Znh...

Interesting take by @matbury.bsky.social . One of the small, but really important takeaways I would throw all my weight behind: you can only use AI when you already know something. #blueLZ

NEW BLOG POST Report: The cognitive & pedagogical implications of generative #AI in education This is my response to the "techno-optimists" & attitudes of "techno solutionism." I hope you find it informative & helpful! Link: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

NEW BLOG POST Integrating extramural English: Developing stronger communicative proficiency in universities & colleges Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

#blueLZ #engluschunterricht: Explizite Instruktion ist der Zaun oben auf der Klippe, nicht der Krankenwagen unten. Steile These? Finde den Post von Matt Bury super.

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Coming soon - Turner & Hoffmann on Creative Construction Grammar. In this, we argue that the domain-general process of Conceptual Blending is the cognitive operation that combines constructions. BTW this will be published open access! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

NEW BLOG POST Why traditional EFL coursebooks fail to develop communicative & linguistic competence Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

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I advise teachers & students to move on from retrieval practice into more integrative learning/study tasks as quickly as possible, e.g. once students are achieving >80% on retrieval tests after delays of 2 days or more.

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"Too little is known about the field of AI in education for anyone to be an expert yet."

Wouldn't it be ironic if some clever person developed an AI browser plugin that filtred out articles, posts, & comments about AI, LLMs, AI marketing hype, AI "experts", etc.? Please? Oh, please?!

BLOG POST Meaning first: Why connecting form and meaning is essential for language learning Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

With so much news, hype, and 'research' about AI in education, I thought it a good idea to bring this blog and open access article under everyone's attention. ChatGPT: An effect in search of a cause onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

BLOG POST It’s Time to Move on from Emergency Remote Teaching Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

Our new study at Developmental Psychology is out! Longitudinal associations between digital reading, motivation and comprehension in Primary school. Clear mutual associations, and negative influences of digital habits on future motivation. @altamuralidia.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Carl Hendrix writes an insightful summary of the best research into using AI for education to date & poses some interesting questions. By far, the best article on AI in education I've read so far: carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-algori...

NEW BLOG POST Digital sovereignty or digital colony? A wake-up call for Europe Continue reading & listen: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

Nobody: What's England like? England: ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFzq... www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYHj... Happy *Gunpowder Treason Day*! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Faw...

NEW BLOG POST Making the student writing process transparent: Version control as a practical & pedagogical response to LLM enabled academic misconduct Countinue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

NEW BLOG POST Making the student writing process transparent: Version control as a practical & pedagogical response to LLM enabled academic misconduct Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

Here's a list of UK MPs who voted in favour of starting a process to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. Never forget what these people did: votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...

For anyone in educational management & who might want to rethink the ways in which they regard & treat their teachers, i.e. not having to recruit significant numbers of teachers every academic year: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/education-ev...

BLOG POST ELT methodology is chronically under-defined: When we teach without definition, we teach in the dark Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

NEW BLOG POST Rethinking grammar instruction: Why usage-based, Construction Grammar-informed language learning outperforms skill-acquisition approaches Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

NEW BLOG POST Rethinking error correction: More effective pathways for grammatical development Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

The brain is the stupidest object in the universe. Every misunderstanding and bad idea in history came from a brain. Before brains, no one was wrong about anything.

Absolutely this. Please. From @tombennett71.bsky.social

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RFK is now urging American men to only drink rainwater & pure-grain alcohol & avoid allowing women to sap their precious bodily fluids. Children should avoid ice cream made with fluoridised water, which is the greatest communist conspiracy to ever face the USA.

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BLOG POST Making It Stick: Towards more effective vocabulary practice in language learning Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

Happy birthday Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde! Born 16th October 1854, Dublin, Ireland

Well, now that #LearningStyles have been thoroughly debunked & the message is finally getting through, here comes #OUP, promoting #TeachingStyles, & prompting gullible teachers to self-identify as one of their prescribed profiles. You can't make this stuff up.

BLOG POST What’s happening in your mind when you write an essay? A look inside the writer’s thought processes Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

NEW BLOG POST ELT methodology is chronically under-defined: When we teach without definition, we teach in the dark Continue reading: matbury.com/wordpress/in...

An interesting paper on a protocol for developing reading (decoding) fluency: ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #OpenAccess

When fourth graders practised fluency with challenging texts rather than levelled readers, their reading rate and accuracy improved more substantially. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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Thoughts about current #ELT #InstructionalDesign practices. How far would you agree or disagree?

Absolutely! Back in the late 1990s, John Truscott kicked off a debate on low efficacy of explicit form focused corrective feedback on students' writing & speaking. Even though the lit reviews & evidence he presented were incontrovertible, the debate still continues to this day. Nothing has changed!

There is a lot of talk about LLMs revolutionizing education. But once you get into it, things are not that trivial. Here, we summarize the questions that emerge when trying to implement AI Tutors nationwide. Out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social #edusky authors.elsevier.com/a/1ltdo4sIRv...