Some parents are embracing the use of AI in education youtu.be/wFVBOe_DTZk?si…

Pleased to share that my Cambridge Element on intercultural communication and identity, co-authored with Tongle Sun, is now out and free to download until February 6 LLED cambridge.org/core/elements/…

The rise of the TikTok news anchor economist.com/united-states/… from The Economist

Excited to share this article on the use of ChatGPT and generative AI for learning English, co-authored with Guangxiang Leon Liu and Ma Chaojun for the journal Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) LLED tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Sometimes it’s nice being able to touch the stuff you’ve written. :) Thanks Cambridge University Press

An "English teacher" chatbot at #characterAI with an image of a white man introduces itself as a "native American". After I interrogated it further, it apologizes and says that by "native American", it meant "native English speaker". #decolonizetechnology

See you at #AAAL2024 LourdesOrtega @YasukoKanno Peter De Costa steven thorne

“Without our ancestors we would not be here”. Candace Galla delivers a brilliant plenary at #AAAL2024 on indigenous and embodied language practices. LLED

Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet vox.com/culture/237332… via Vox

Microsoft's AI tool has the ability to animate images of faces so they talk and sing. It’s easy for users to be tricked by deep fake videos, says @UBCEducation professor Dr. Ron Darvin (Ron Darvin). via CTV News ctvnews.ca/video/c2909216…

Call for abstracts: 2025 Special Issue of Language Teaching Research on digital literacy and language teaching in the age of AI. Proposals due on July 15, 2024. Click here for more details: drive.google.com/file/d/1vOJG_B…

Call for abstracts | Special issue of System | Critical digital literacy: Language, technology and power. Guest editors: Ron Darvin + Christoph Hafner. Details can be found here: sciencedirect.com/journal/system…

How one even has the time to arrange all this when they go through airport security is a mystery to me 🤓 theguardian.com/fashion/articl…

Next stop: AI optimization or How to train your (dr)AI(gon) nytimes.com/2024/08/30/tec…

Join us on Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024, 1 - 2pm for a talk featuring Dr. Alfred Hermida on "Between Hope and Disillusionment: Reassessing Journalism in the Age of AI". RSVP here: languagesciences.ubc.ca/.../language-s…... #AI #journalism

Thank you to the Editorial Board of English for Specific Purposes and Elsevier for this recognition!

Thanks #TSLL2024 for the opportunity to share my ideas on generative AI and critical digital literacies!

Happy to share my open access article on generative AI and the need to examine the inequalities and ideologies embedded in these tools, particularly as they shape the way we write ourselves into being. LLED sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Looking forward to chatting with colleagues and graduate students from Georgetown University about language learning investment and claiming the right to speak. Thank you Alison Mackey for having me. LLED

Looking forward to being back in Hong Kong! LLED Faculty of Education, HKU