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TPACK in the age of ChatGPT and Generative AI!

A very good read for those interested in the intersection of TPACK and AI.

Link in the first comment.

Announcement on extended deadline for abstract submission of the International Conference on Action Research in Language Learning (ICARLL) 2026, organized by Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) on 6–7 May at Gurney Bay Hotel, Penang supported by the Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA)

📅 Updated Deadlines:
* Registration: 22 April 2026
* Abstract Submission: 15 April 2026
* Full Paper Submission: 22 April 2026

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Top 30 Tongue Twisters Every English Learner Should Try:
1. She sells seashells by the seashore.
2. Four fine fresh fish for you.
3. Red leather, yellow leather.
4. A proper copper coffee pot.
5. Unique New York.
6. Freshly fried flying fish.
7. Six sticky skeletons.
8. Six slippery snails slid slowly seaward.
9. Green glass globes glow green.
10. Black background, brown background.
11. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.
12. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear; Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair;
Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he?
13. If two witches would watch two watches,
which witch would watch which watch?
14. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
15. How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
16. I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch.
17. A big black bear sat on a big black rug.
18. Thin sticks, thick bricks.
19. Tommy Tucker tried to tie two turtledoves.
20. Rolling red wagons roll right regularly.
21. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
22. Betty Botter bought some butter,
but she said the butter’s bitter.
If I put it in my batter,
it will make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter
will make my batter better.
23. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck as much wood
as a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
24. I saw Susie sitting in a shoeshine shop;
where she sits, she shines,
and where she shines, she sits.
25. A tutor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tutors to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
“Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tutors to toot?”
26. Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
27. Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks
with picks and sticks.
28. Pad kid poured curd pulled cold.
(Scientifically proven as one of the hardest!)
29. The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.
30. Brisk brave brigadiers brandished broad bright blades,
blunderbusses, and bludgeons — balancing them badly.

‘Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic philosopher, the dominant figure in the second generation of the Frankfurt School and the thinker who brought that “school” to an end. Others can and will reckon his contributions at that grand scale. What I have to offer is more specific: the reflections of a leftwing North American member of his circle on what she learned from him and what she could only learn by looking elsewhere.

My ties to Habermas were multi-layered. He was an inspiration and a role model; a mentor and an antagonist; a figure who showed me early on how to practise “critique with an emancipatory intent” but from whom I eventually had to distance myself.’

Nancy Fraser on the philosopher, from the blog.

Read here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/after-habermas