Professional Engagement
While we like the YouTube channel, it sometimes gets lonely. As teachers, we thrive on personal connections with our colleagues and students. That’s why we strive to constantly engage face-to-face with our great community. This page holds the learning conversations from our recent conferences, podcast sessions, and other AI musings.
Recent Conferences
If you’re interested in AI in education or how schools can create strong cultures for collaboration, please spend a few minutes going through our slide decks and hearing our thoughts.
Learning 2 Asia, Bangkok, Thailand, November 2023
“Personalized Learning and Generative AI”
This presentation targeted high school teachers and administrators to demonstrate AI use cases from our classrooms. Yes – it is possible for AI to foster deep learning in students!
ECIS, Dusseldorf, Germany, March 2023
“Culture of Collaboration”
This presentation targeted educational leaders with a purpose to share the school culture that allowed the IB English Guys to flourish. The result? ALL students – not just ours – move forward in their learning!
Recent Podcasts
We’re thankful to Chris Jordan for having us on The Leading, Language and Literature Podcast. We enjoyed discussing a range of topics and look forward to joining again.
The Leading, Language and Literature Podcast October 25, 2023
“Deep Dive - IB English A: Paper 2”
We discuss our experience as examiners and try to demystify this challenging assessment. There are some Paper 2 nuggets of gold here, so teachers and students will both want to check this out.
The Leading, Language and Literature Podcast May 11, 2022
“IB English Guys, English Teachers and YouTubers”
An initial conversation getting to know Dave and Andrew. Topics range from why we started this project to what books we like to teach. We also try to nail down some essentials for the IB English Individual Oral assessment.
Recent Publications
We love it when people reach out and ask us to share our thinking in writing. We are happy to contribute and share when asked, so please feel free to reach out.
Education Week, January 18, 2023
“19 Ways to Use Chat GPT in Your Classroom” By Larry Ferlazzo
We share our thoughts and experiences from the classroom as AI burst onto the scene.
ITCE (affiliate of NCTE), April 18, 2023
“IB English Guys, An Original Story”
A nice piece by Dave about who we are and why we started IB English Guys. It all started with a late-night phone call…