Women in the History of Science

Women in the History of Science explores how women around the world have helped create scientific knowledge throughout history. The book brings together original sources such as texts, images, and objects, each explained with clear background information, discussion questions, and suggestions for further reading to help you learn more.

Organised by time period (from 1200 BCE to today) and across 12 broad themes, the book covers science, technology, mathematics, medicine, and culture. It is designed to support both students and teachers in discovering the many ways women have contributed to these fields.

Women are often left out of traditional science history, but this book puts their voices and experiences at the centre. It also encourages readers to rethink what science is, where it happens, and who gets to be called a scientist. By doing so, it helps make learning more inclusive and shows that science has always been shaped by people from many different backgrounds.

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10165716/1/Women-in-the-History-of-Science.pdf

Generative Artificial Intelligence in secondary education

This study looks at how teachers and schools in secondary education are starting to use generative AI (GenAI) and what they think about it. It focuses on the experiences of early users in five EU countries and includes the perspectives of teachers, school leaders, students and policymakers. The study shows that GenAI can open up new possibilities for teaching and learning, such as supporting lesson planning, personalising learning and helping students develop new skills. At the same time, it also raises important questions and challenges that schools need to address.

By listening to the experiences of these early adopters, the study helps us understand what works well, what concerns teachers have, and what needs to be considered to use GenAI in a safe, fair and responsible way in schools. The results are used to make recommendations for policymakers and school leaders, with a strong focus on ethical use. They also underline the need to rethink AI literacy and digital competence so that both teachers and students are better prepared to work with these new technologies in the classroom.

Downloads:

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC144345

A Practical Guide to Academic Writing for International Students

Writing essays and dissertations can be difficult for many international students at English-speaking universities. To support them, a selection of key chapters from well-known books on Academic Writing has been put together.

The first three chapters, by Stephen Bailey, cover the basics: how to write clear paragraphs, strong introductions, and effective conclusions.

The next chapter, by Jane Bottomley, explains the style of academic science writing, how to use sources responsibly, and techniques for paraphrasing and summarizing.

Chapters five to seven, also by Stephen Bailey, give practical advice for Business and Economics students on writing essays, reports, case studies, and executive summaries.

The last chapter, by Brian Paltridge and Sue Starfield, looks at common challenges faced by students writing theses or dissertations in English and offers tips for overcoming them.

https://www.routledge.com/rsc/downloads/A_Practical_Guide_to_Academic_Writing_for_International_Students-A_Routledge_FreeBook-_FINAL_VERSION_.pdf

La enseñanza del inglés en el siglo XXI: Una mirada integradora y multimodal

Libro en abierto de Antonio Jesús Tinedo Rodríguez. En él se presenta una perspectiva actual e inclusiva sobre la enseñanza del inglés en el contexto del siglo XXI. Mediante un enfoque multimodal, se analizan metodologías activas, herramientas digitales y estrategias didácticas diseñadas para responder a los retos educativos contemporáneos. 

El autor plantea un modelo pedagógico que integra teoría y práctica, con una marcada orientación hacia la inclusión, la digitalización y la comunicación efectiva.

Tinedo Rodríguez, A. J. (2022). La enseñanza del inglés en el siglo XXI: Una mirada integradora y multimodal. Sindéresis.

https://helvia.uco.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10396/33145/la-ensenanza-del-ingles-en-el-siglo-xxi-gaqeut%20%281%29.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

CommonLit library

The CommonLit library is a free online resource that provides a vast collection of high-quality reading materials for students and educators. It includes a diverse range of texts, such as short stories, poems, articles, and historical documents, designed to help students from grades 3 to 12 improve their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. The library offers texts that cover various genres, themes, and reading levels, making it adaptable for different educational needs.

Each text in the CommonLit library is accompanied by comprehension questions, discussion prompts, and sometimes paired texts to support literacy instruction. Teachers can create accounts to assign readings to their students and track progress. The platform is used widely in classrooms to support reading development and align with academic standards like Common Core.

You can explore the library here:

https://www.commonlit.org/en/library?initiatedFrom=library

SoBrief: #ArtificialIntelligence to generate book summaries

SoBrief is an innovative AI-powered tool that provides concise and accurate summaries of a wide variety of books. Language teachers can leverage this platform to:

• Expand their reading horizons: Discover new works and literary genres quickly and easily.
• Enrich their classes: Use the summaries as a starting point for class discussions, literary analysis, or as a supplement to your teaching materials.
• Encourage reading among their students: Recommend books to students based on their interests and language proficiency levels.
• Save time: Avoid the tedious task of summarizing books yourself and devote more time to preparing more creative activities.

With SoBrief, teachers have access to summaries in multiple languages, which facilitates the integration of literature from different cultures into their classes and promotes the learning of foreign languages in a more engaging and meaningful way.

Find it on:

https://sobrief.com/

Vocabulary Building Workbook

This resource will help you improve your vocabulary and learn new words commonly used in the workplace.

The workbook includes 24 lessons with a variety of exercises:

• Matching Meanings

• Using the Right Word

• Relating Meanings

• Analyzing and Comparing Words

• Reading Comprehension

• Crossword Puzzles

Each lesson starts with a list of words and definitions, and an example of how each word can be used in a sentence to help you better understand the meaning. Once you have read the vocabulary words and definitions in each lesson, you can begin the exercises. 

Find it on:

http://en.copian.ca/library/learning/hrsdc/vocabulary_workbook/vocabulary_workbook.pdf 

Cooperative Learning and the Sustainable Development Goals #SDGs

Cooperative Learning and the Sustainable Development Goals is a helpful book made just for English teachers. It has lesson plans, tips, and teaching ideas to help teachers use cooperative learning in their classrooms and teach students about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Free download on:

https://payhip.com/b/obOwr

Gender-ing English language classes across the globe: Practical lessons for teachers

Gender-ing English language classes across the globe: Practical lessons for teachers is an excellent resource for English language teachers who want to integrate gender topics into their teaching. The book is divided into two parts: the first part provides an overview of gender and language, and the second part presents 40 practical lessons that teachers can use in their classrooms.

The lessons in the book cover a wide range of topics, including gender and the workplace, gender and education, gender stereotypes, and gender (in)equality. The lessons are designed to be engaging and interactive, and they encourage students to think critically about gender issues.

A valuable tool for helping teachers to raise awareness of gender issues and to create more inclusive learning environments.

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/2023-09/Gender-ing_EL_classes_v2_FINAL_web.pdf

Thegreatelibrary.blogspot.com

This online platform supports young people with free courses and books to develop their careers.

Visit their English resources on:

https://thegreatelibrary.blogspot.com/search/label/English

A History of #Ireland in 10 Words

The educational resources available on this site are based on the book A History of Ireland in 100 Words (https://www.ria.ie/history-ireland-100-words), which was written by Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh and Gregory Toner, illustrated by Joe McLaren, and published by the Royal Irish Academy in 2019.

These resources are divided into ten units, each headed by an Irish word which acts as a springboard into glimpses of life in Ireland in previous centuries which are often absent from history books.

The topics of the ten units are:

1. ceol ‘music’
2. ráth ‘a ringfort’
3. leabhar ‘a book’
4. dalta ‘a pupil’
5. réalta ‘a star’
6. bróg ‘a shoe’
7. mac tíre ‘a wolf’
8. forc ‘a fork’
9. gruaig ‘hair’
10. bó ‘a cow’

Visit:

https://spreadingthewords.ie/ 

Unite for Literacy @Unite4Literacy

Unite for Literacy gives children access to books that celebrate their languages and different cultures and cultivate their love of reading.

They can search for readings by category, written (English and Spanish can be chosen so it is also a good resource for early readers of Spanish) and narration language. 

Blog:

https://about.uniteforliteracy.com/blog/

On Twitter: 

https://twitter.com/unite4literacy

Webpage:

https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/

International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL)

The ICDL Foundation is a non-profit corporation. Its goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. 

The Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community. 

The ICDL Foundation promotes tolerance and respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children's literature from around the world. 

Books are categorized by language, character, genre, format, shape, color… 

Find them on:

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ 

Books in English:

http://www.childrenslibrary.org/library/lang2.html 

World Book and Copyright Day

Taking place on 23rd April every year, World Book and Copyright Day promotes reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright

Learn about this day on:

https://www.un.org/en/observances/book-and-copyright-day 

https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldbookday 

An Ocean of Books

An Ocean of Books is a big map of a sea of literature where each island represents a single author (there are more than 113,000), and each city represents a book. 

The distance among the authors has been calculated based on their complex relationship thanks to a machine learning technique called Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP).  

An island was assigned to each author, matching the island size with the author’s presence on the web

Visit An Ocean of Books on:

https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/ocean-of-books?latitude=-43.2000&longitude=-2.5000&zoom=4.40 

Imagination Soup

Blog where parents, librarians, and educators can find book recommendations and educational learning ideas and resources for kids ages 0-13.

Created by Melissa Taylor, a former teacher and former literacy trainer.

On Twitter

https://twitter.com/imaginationsoup 

On Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/ImaginationSoup 

On Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/imaginationsoup/?hl=en 

Visit

https://imaginationsoup.net/ 

Global Digital Library @GDigitalLibrary

The Global Digital Library (GDL) is part of the Global Book Alliance, , an international effort involving multiple stakeholders working to transform book development, procurement and distribution to ensure that no child is without books.  

It collects open educational reading resources, and makes them available in more than 40 languages on web. The platform also facilitates translation and localization of GDL-resources to more than 300 languages.

The GDL is aimed at many different types of users and the platform is open for everyone

On YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN5RyDXS_aKA37YwIPzQPTg 

On Twitter

https://twitter.com/gdigitallibrary 

On Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/globaldigitallibrary/ 

Visit the GDL

https://www.digitallibrary.io/ 

Persuasive Writing via @ErwCymru

Printable booklet of 15 lessons to develop your understanding of persuasion from KS3 to KS4 and your persuasive writing skills.

It includes the following lessons:

1. Introduction to persuasion 

2. Purpose, audience and tone 

3. Using sentence structures and vocabulary to persuade 

4. Power of 3 

5. Exaggeration 

6. Rhetorical questions 

7. Statistics and facts 

8. Undermine the opposing view 

9. Direct address 

10.Emotive Language 

11.Story. Anecdote 

12.Structuring your argument (planning to persuade) 

13.Types of texts: letter, article, leaflet, blog, speech/talk 

14.Improving your persuasion 

15.Introduction to GCSE exams and Unit 3 persuasive writing 

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/erw-live-thinqi-storage/3d/f2/22/94/947441d48a107f46049cc4ad/Persuasion%20Booklet.pdf 

Clear Alphabet Dictionary

This free book will teach you how to use the new phonemic alphabet for English called Clear Alphabet.

This book is in the Public Domain. You can download it from:

https://purlandtraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/N-Clear-Alphabet-Dictionary.pdf

HathiTrust (@hathitrust) Digital Library

Interested in books and digital libraries?

HathiTrust is a partnership of more than 140 academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.

The mission of HathiTrust is to contribute to research, scholarship, and the common good by collaboratively collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge.

Visit it on:

https://www.hathitrust.org/

On Twitter

https://twitter.com/hathitrust