Tag: technology
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The Learning Hub: A Small LMS Built Around My Students
The Learning Hub is a small LMS-style website I built for my students. It gives them one place for assignments, resources, diagnostic tests, activities, and announcements, while giving me a private dashboard to organize classes, review submissions, publish content, and track progress without adding unnecessary complexity.
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What Is Project English?
Project English is my portfolio, but that description only explains part of it. It is where I collect the things I build, write about the things I think are worth discussing, and give my teaching projects, apps, experiments, photography, music, and occasional questionable ideas somewhere to live.
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Recent Updates & Additions to Project English
Project English is my portfolio, and over the past few months I have been adding more of the things I actually work on. Two of the latest projects are a free language placement test and a learning hub I built for my students.
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Why Banning Social Media Won’t Fix the System Competing for Children’s Attention
School phone bans focus on what happens inside classrooms. The UK’s proposed under-16 social media restrictions go further by targeting the platforms themselves. But the same question sits underneath both debates: if children spend less time online, what are we offering them instead?
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The Business Model of Modern Loneliness
Loneliness is no longer outside the market In When Connection Replaces Presence, the question was personal: what happens when the tools that help us reach each other also train us out of presence? This post moves from that personal problem to its economic extension. If digital life can weaken presence, the video They Need You…
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Dangerous Apps and the Invisible Market Inside Your Phone
DW Documentary’s Dangerous Apps, In the Web of Data Brokers exposes how ordinary mobile apps can feed a global market for location data. This post explains what the documentary reveals, why it matters, and why the full video is worth watching.
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A Look at Free AI Courses from Anthropic and IBM
Anthropic Academy and IBM SkillsBuild both offer free AI learning resources, but they serve different purposes. Anthropic focuses more on Claude, APIs, Claude Code, MCP, and agent workflows. IBM SkillsBuild offers broader AI literacy courses for students, educators, adult learners, and people exploring digital credentials.