Times they are always a’changing! In the world of language teaching things move and shift continuously. Once it was classroom methods that kept kept being disrupted by ideas. Then it was technology – from blackboard to whiteboard, from Interactive whiteboard to computers and tablets, from overhead projectors to powerpoint. With each new iteration people were excited, curious, scared or dismissive depending on their way of thinking as Gartner’s hype cycle has demonstrated.
Now it’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) which is rattling everyone’s cages and a whole lot of other innovations alongside it. And so, as I embark on new methodology writing for the first time in quite a few years (watch this space) it seems right to start a new blog site teasing out some of the issues that current preoccupations have brought to the attention of our profession..
My name is Jeremy Harmer and I have been a teacher, trainer, writer and presenter for many many many years. Among my books areThe Practice of English Language Teaching, How to Teach English, Essential teacher Knowledge, Jeremy Harmer’s 50 Communicative activities, 3 readers from the Cambridge readers series (the Double Bass Mystery, Trumpet Voluntary & Solo Saxophone ) and Jetstream, a 6-level course for adults) and American Jetstream. I also write fiction and play and write music.
Jeremy Harmer ELT 