Episode 32

The 32nd episode of Delivering Development, our podcast on continuing professional development for language teachers and administrators, continues looking at teaching in a world of AI. Neil couldn’t make it, so Kevin and Laura continued the discussion, summarising what we have been looking at and coming to some general conclusions about what it means for teaching and assessment. In many ways, the threats created by AI are to how things have been done so far, while the opportunities are about how we can do some things better, or sometimes do some things that we could not do without AI. There was also a bit of a discussion about the nature of professional development and what it means to be a professional, which may well feed into the next episode! You can listen to the episode below on the embedded player, and you can also listen and subscribe to this and future podcasts at the various locations shown at the bottom of the show notes.

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Links

To wrap up this series, here are some links that I hope you will find interesting.

This is an article that I have referred to regularly since I first read it what feels like many years ago. While the pandemic has changed the context a bit, I think it contains a lot of truth about CPD in general.

https://chrisbetcher.com/2011/05/you-dont-have-to-like-it/

Despite the title, this is a balanced article much along the lines of our last few podcasts. Should we kill the essay or should we make sure we are using it for the right reasons and not just as a logistically easy assessment (of what though?) procedure?

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/should-we-kill-essay?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campus-weekly&spMailingID=31034258&spUserID=MTAxNzcwNzUzMjAzNQS2&spJobID=2691007804&spReportId=MjY5MTAwNzgwNAS2

An interesting survey of student use of AI

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/using-genai-easier-asking-my-supervisor-support?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campus-weekly&spMailingID=31034258&spUserID=MTAxNzcwNzUzMjAzNQS2&spJobID=2691007804&spReportId=MjY5MTAwNzgwNAS2

Areas where AI just doesn’t do the job.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/only-human-will-do-when-eschew-ai-teaching-and-research?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campus-weekly&spMailingID=31034258&spUserID=MTAxNzcwNzUzMjAzNQS2&spJobID=2691007804&spReportId=MjY5MTAwNzgwNAS2

Conclusion

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