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

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...

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