Tag: learning
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The dust of reality
How AI is frakensteining a new ‘Non-speak’ language. In the beginning was the word. In the end, the word was. The new language we are rapidly producing in our lives could be called Newspeak, as Orwell thought it would be best labelled, but in the forming cancer of our non-expressive reality it would more accurately…
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The loneliness of the long-distance teacher
March 2020 was just the start… At least the badly-exploited Glovo guys on their bikes get together in the public square. They can have a chat or a moan with each other between deliveries. Unlike them, the average Business English teacher here in Spain is now more than likely to be sitting solo at a…
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Post PowerPoint Trauma Syndrome
[This article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, July, 2010] Have you ever sat through and silently suffered during a PowerPoint presentation? Most likely, you have more than a few times. Together with ten other teachers, I have been asked (or is it told?) to do a PowerPoint presentation about my History elective subject for…
Brett Hetherington 