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Graham Stanley

@grahamstanley.bsky.social
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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)

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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AI is being used to rate teachers www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
er.educause.edu/articles/202...
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The Agentic Professor: Exploring GenAI-Supported Futures in Higher Education
The Agentic Professor is a construct that helps colleges and universities explore how scalable, long-term personalized instructional support could res
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
‘Durable learning depends less on how much information pupils encounter and more on what they are required to do with it’ thedigitalclassroomlab.com/opinion/how-...
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How Do We Actually Learn? 12 Principles for Better Teaching
Retrieval, feedback, spacing, interleaving, deliberate practice and transfer are usually taught as separate techniques. Twelve evidence-informed principles that fit them into one coherent model of lea...
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"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
hybridhorizons.substack.com
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.
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AI Is Already Changing What It Means to Be Human tinyurl.com/43tzkxuv
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AI Is Already Changing What It Means to Be Human
As we learn to think more and more highly of the bots, we will learn to think less and less highly of our fellow humans.
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
LLMs and sponsorship arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525
arxiv.org
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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
iai.tv/articles/the...
iai.tv
There is no post-work society, only a post-survival one
<p><em>The wage economy once appeared natural. It linked labour to production, income, and survival. But AI is making these links unstable: societies can produce more with less human work. Philosopher...
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Context-Based Mentoring Training: Contemporary and Future Perspectives: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Trajectories of teachers' professional development: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Student learning and assessment in the age of AI www.learningscientists.org/blog/2026/7/...?
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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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Towards critical colleagueship for improved teacher collaboration and professional learning www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New AI Literacy Framework from EU education.ec.europa.eu/whats-new/ne...
education.ec.europa.eu
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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What happens when teachers, not students, get generative AI? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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...
teachingenglish.org.uk
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...
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
It's such a shame to see learning languages undervalued and under threat www.tes.com/magazine/new...
tes.com
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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This report was published in 2022 but still very relevant today www.rand.org/pubs/researc...
rand.org
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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort. bit.ly/4vbuMHV
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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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
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
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AI-Powered Language Teaching
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - AI-Powered Language Teaching
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
www.instructure.com/resources/bl... #gamification
instructure.com
The Role of Gamification and Interactive Learning in K-12 Classrooms
Explore how gamification and interactive learning tools can drive student engagement in K-12 classrooms, and learn what to look for when choosing the right ones.
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This was fun. #IATEFL #LTSIG #EscapeRoom youtu.be/vs1m9CHUGYQ?... I need to do more of this.
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Graham Stanley - Escape The Classroom - IATEFL Liverpool 2019
YouTube video by IATEFL LTSIG
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Now free to download: www.tirfonline.org/resource/202...
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"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....
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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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The use of L1 in English language teaching - report www.cambridge.org/sites/defaul...
cambridge.org
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Interesting take / article on #gamification: "Once, it was a race to survive. Now, it’s a race to satisfy a cartoon owl."
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
‘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
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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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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The trouble with AI writing www.oneusefulthing.org/p/choosing-t...
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Choosing to Stay Human
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
When to skip using AI. True Learning: AI shortcuts can hinder learning Effort is key: struggle leads to deeper understanding
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
The Evolution of Bloom's Taxonomy, And Where It Was Always Heading in the Age of AI
What I mean by "Don't Grade the Output, Grade the Thinking" (its not just process based learning).
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
open.umn.edu/opentextbook...
open.umn.edu
Design for Learning: Principles, Processes, and Praxis - Open Textbook Library
Our purpose in this book is twofold. First, we introduce the basic skill set and knowledge base used by practicing instructional designers. We do this through chapters contributed by experts in the fi...
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Reflections on AI and the last academic year open.substack.com/pub/fitzyhis...
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AI Exhaustion
What I've Learned During the 2025 - 2026 School Year
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Free to download until 6rh June www.cambridge.org/core/element...
cambridge.org
Microlearning with GenAI
Cambridge Core - Applied Linguistics - Microlearning with GenAI
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
#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"
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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...
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The changing global context for development cooperation  - Independent Commission for Aid Impact
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"Assessment must now do two jobs. It must assess what students can do with AI, and what they can still do without it. Both matter. Students need AI fluency, but they also need independent disciplinary competence." hybridhorizons.substack.com/p/genai-insi...
hybridhorizons.substack.com
GenAI Insights – Short-Term
May 2026 update
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Rapid-fire hiring game: www.survivalofthebestfit.com/game/
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Survival of the Best Fit
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
'A skeptical take on a "revolutionary" technology' : www.aaup.org/issue/spring...
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The AI Nuisance
There’s nothing new about the latest struggle between administrators and the professoriate over control of the classroom.
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
“When men use AI, we question their effort. When women use AI, we question their integrity.” - The bias isn’t in the technology. It is in the people reading the output. www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-nic...
linkedin.com
Two identical CVs. Both written by AI. Both sent to 1,000 people. The only difference: one was named James, one was named Emily. James’s CV got a 97% approval rating. Emily’s got 76% - and… | Dr Nic...
Two identical CVs. Both written by AI. Both sent to 1,000 people. The only difference: one was named James, one was named Emily. James’s CV got a 97% approval rating. Emily’s got 76% - and reviewers...
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
www.linkedin.com/pulse/redesi... Very interesting post on redesigning assignments in the age of #AI by @joedale.bsky.social
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Redesigning Assignments in the Age of AI
On Tuesday, I watched a truly thought-provoking webinar by Christi Park entitled Redesigning Assignments in the Age of AI. I found the session very timely and deeply relevant to the conversations many...
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Creative digital escape rooms: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Opening plenary of the final day at #APPI
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Sci-fi meets ELT
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Claudia Ferradas opening the second day of the #APPI conference.
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Harry Waters speaking about #sustainability and #ELT at the #APPI conference afternoon plenary
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A very enjoyable experience being able to run a workshop at #APPI 2026 in Aveiro today for @britishcouncil.bsky.social
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Anna finishes her talk on the importance of community by sharing her favourite quilt
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Anna Pires opening #APPI2026 asking us to imagine objects that remind us of community
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
At the opening of the #APPI conference in Aveiro, Portugal
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Bridging Gen Alpha’s digital habits with AI in education: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Bridging Gen Alpha’s digital habits with AI in education
This study explored the relationship between social media and Generation Alpha, focusing on creativity, learning, and assessment. It also investigated students’ internalizing behaviors and parental...
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Capturing the complexity of gamification elements: a holistic approach for analysing existing and deriving novel gamification designs #gamification www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Capturing the complexity of gamification elements: a holistic approach for analysing existing and deriving novel gamification designs
Gamification is a well-known approach that refers to the use of elements to increase the motivation of information systems users. A remaining challenge in gamification is that no shared understandi...
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Graham Stanley @grahamstanley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
What Do We Actually Mean by Learning? nickpotkalitsky.substack.com/p/deescalati...
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Deescalating the AI Learning Debate
What Do We Actually Mean by Learning?
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