Tag: technology

• July 30, 2025

  Memory: the sincerest of witnesses

  And how it serves… (Listen to my reading of this article here: https://bretthetherington.substack.com/p/memory-the-sincerest-of-witnesses) One of the strangest things about our memories is how they come to the brain from seemingly nowhere at all. First thought is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I…
• April 6, 2025

  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…
• November 10, 2024

  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…
• November 13, 2022

  Captured

  [A version of this article was first published in Catalonia Today magazine, January 2021.] “I’m the only foreigner in the Catalan government,” Italian, Francesca Bria used to sometimes say when introducing herself to a public audience.  In the two years leading up to the pandemic, her team’s work on “digital sovereignty” for people living in the Catalan…