The Paper Dolls reduces me to tears every single time - and that line in particular always makes me well up. Such a wonderful book.

The namechecks in this week's Connected Learning include @cal-innes.bsky.social, @cliffmanning.bsky.social, George Siemens, Common Sense Media, Parent Zone, Katy Potts, and more

This week's Connected Learning newsletter is out - connectedlearning.substack.com/p/ai-in-scho... - with insights on AI in schools from a Swedish thesis, sustainability, safety, school phone bans and a one-off Don't Give it a Try... Free digital education news in your inbox every Friday morning

Don't miss the amazing new issue of Books for Keeps with all the books to look out for in 2025. I loved interviewing MG Leonard @mglnrd.bsky.social about her thrilling new time travel series and its intriguing origins in string theory, music and a rock band photographer's obsession with doorways...

Duolingo Dutch is obsessed with rhinoceroses and turtles. I’ve not yet met any in Amsterdam but who knows…

Which means I also get to plug my favourite ever Google Arts and Culture experiment... Blob Opera artsandculture.google.com/experiment/b...

AI literacies from
@dougbelshaw.com, latest on Gemini and Sora, More than Robots from @cliffmanning.bsky.social, Christmas stocking fillers from @lgfl-ngfl.bsky.social, a BETT preview and find out what music a painting makes in the latest Google Arts and Culture experiment...

This week's newsletter is out! No intro essay this week as we start to wind down for Christmas but the usual bunch of lovely links to debate, news tools and resources to help keep educators up to speed with the latest digital developments: connectedlearning.substack.com/p/latest-dig...

I think I'd have gone for two from this year - Richard Linklater's Hitman with Glen Powell juggling a double life as a mild-mannered professor - and a hitman. Plus American Fiction with Jeffrey Wright's beleaguered professor of literature

With thanks to @jacobengelberg.bsky.social @garyneedham.bsky.social @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social @hannahhamad.bsky.social James Chapman, Sarah Street, David Green, Barbara Brickman and Justin Wyatt

With thanks to @jacobengelberg.bsky.social
@garyneedham.bsky.social @cuneytcakirlar.bsky.social @hannahhamad.bsky.social
James Chapman, Sarah Street, David Green, Barbara Brickman, Justin Wyatt

This was fun to work on as an end of year festive treat - nine film studies academics choose their top movies featuring academic life - from Jurassic Park and Wicked to The Birds, Sorority Girl, Legally Blonde, Torso and more...
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