audrey watters

Apr 03 2025

Taking AI literacy seriously

philipjkerr

English language teacher education, says the British Council (Edmett et al. 2024: 21), ‘must include a focus on AI literacy’ and ‘teachers also need to develop their learners AI literacy’. This report is referring to Generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT), the focus of my discussion here. There are...

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Feb 27 2025

AI and ELT jobs

philipjkerr

In the British Council’s recently commissioned report on AI and English language teaching, the ‘Executive Summary’ suggests that, ‘when it comes to AI replacing humans, the majority view is that AI will not replace the need for human teachers any time soon’ (Edmett et al., 2024: 11). This is based...

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