Graham Stanley
@grahamstanley.bsky.social
Teacher Development Lead for the British Council. M.Ed ELT & Educational Technology. Books: Language Learning with Technology (CUP); Remote Teaching (British Council); Digital Play: Computer games and language aims (Delta)
"In a library, better discovery tools can create time for staff to help people evaluate what they find, or the savings can be taken out of the staffing budget." hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/when-ai-ca... No surprises as to what is likely to happen, I fear
When AI Can Do Your Life’s Work
The mathematicians’ warning points to losses of authority and purpose that can arrive before the loss of a job.
hybridhorizons.substack.com
LLMs and sponsorship arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525
Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest
Large language models (LLMs) are trained to align with user preferences through methods like reinforcement learning. Yet models are beginning to be deployed not solely to satisfy users, but to generat...
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Context-Based Mentoring Training: Contemporary and Future Perspectives: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Context-Based Mentoring Training: Contemporary and Future Perspectives
Mentoring represents a critical mechanism for supporting beginning teachers’ (BTs) participation and development within the education systems. This study offers a professional perspective on the me...
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Trajectories of teachers' professional development: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Trajectories of teachers’ professional development: focus on pre-service and novice teachers
Published in The Language Learning Journal (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2026)
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Student learning and assessment in the age of AI www.learningscientists.org/blog/2026/7/...?
Student Learning and Assessments in the Age of AI — The Learning Scientists
In May I attended an all-day ‘AI in Assessment’ workshop with a focus on Psychology degrees in Higher Education in London. Researchers from the UK and Ireland shared insights on students’ attitudes on...
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Towards critical colleagueship for improved teacher collaboration and professional learning www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Towards critical colleagueship for improved teacher collaboration and professional learning
Professional learning communities (PLCs) are widely promoted as a way to support teacher development, improve workplace culture, and enhance job satisfaction, yet many PLCs remain compliance-driven...
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New AI Literacy Framework from EU education.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...
New AI Literacy Framework helps schools prepare learners for the age of artificial intelligence
The framework provides a common reference for integrating AI literacy in education. It aims to help educators, school leaders and policymakers translate AI literacy into meaningful learning experience...
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This new report 'brings together global evidence and practical experience of implementation at scale to explore how education systems can meaningfully and sustainably support teachers throughout their careers.' www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications...
Scalable models for teacher professional development: Insights from the British Council
Abstract High-quality teaching is one of the strongest drivers of improved learning, yet teachers around the world continue to face persistent challenges including limited training opportunities, misa...
teachingenglish.org.uk
It's such a shame to see learning languages undervalued and under threat www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Nearly half of primaries struggle to find time for languages
Languages are coming ‘under pressure’ from primary school onwards - but the primary experience is key to enthusiasm for languages in secondaries, finds British Council
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This report was published in 2022 but still very relevant today www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
Investment in Languages Education Could Return Double for UK Economy
Languages play a significant role in international trade, and not sharing a common language acts as a non-tariff trade barrier. Benefit-to-cost ratios for increasing Arabic, Mandarin, French, or Spani...
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What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort. bit.ly/4vbuMHV
The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age
What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
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New Cambridge Element, AI-Powered Language Teaching by Jeong-Bae Son and Andrew Philpott, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at cup.org/4w0NwKS
AI-Powered Language Teaching
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - AI-Powered Language Teaching
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"Debates about artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education are often polarised between technological optimism, alarmist concern about academic integrity, and pragmatic managerial responses." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Educating What AI Cannot: Character and the Future of Higher Education
Debates about artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education are often polarised between technological optimism, alarmist concern about academic integrity, and pragmatic managerial responses. Whi...
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Interesting take / article on #gamification: "Once, it was a race to survive. Now, it’s a race to satisfy a cartoon owl."
‘Classrooms can be far too loud and incredibly distracting’: headteacher Dr Adam England, who took a sabbatical at a classroom-design company, explains how a few non-expensive changes can dramatically improve our learning spaces
Why too many classrooms are designed wrong
A school leader who took a sabbatical at a classroom-design company explains the benefits of a few simple design fixes
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When to skip using AI. True Learning: AI shortcuts can hinder learning Effort is key: struggle leads to deeper understanding
Reflections on AI and the last academic year open.substack.com/pub/fitzyhis...
AI Exhaustion
What I've Learned During the 2025 - 2026 School Year
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#AI 'orchestration' vs prompting "Prompting still matters, but it is no longer enough. The skilled user frames the problem, supplies context, chooses tools, breaks down work, compares models, interrogates outputs, checks sources, manages uncertainty, preserves privacy and decides when not to use AI"
Global official development assistance fell by $50 billion (23%) in 2025 and is projected to fall further to levels last seen a decade ago. icai.independent.gov.uk/review/the-c...
The changing global context for development cooperation - Independent Commission for Aid Impact
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