IB education
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Why the Best AI Prompters Are Often English Majors, Not Coders
Here’s a fact that surprises most people: several of the people who built Anthropic — the company behind the AI you might be using right now — studied literature, not computer science. Daniela Amodei, Anthropic’s president and co-founder, has a degree in English Literature. So does Jack Clark, another co-founder, who worked as a journalist… Continue reading
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From Texts to Essays: How to Sound Formal When It Actually Matters
Here’s a quick guide to code-switching You already know how to switch your voice. You don’t text your best friend the way you’d email your principal — you just do it automatically. That skill has a name: code-switching, and it’s exactly what you need for academic writing. The good news? You don’t need a whole… Continue reading
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Compare and Contrast: Why do we even have to learn this!?
I was watching an interview with Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase, when interviewer Wilfred Frost asked him a question that every MYP English student would immediately recognise. “Compare and contrast…” Continue reading
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IB (International Baccalaureate) in the time of war
Coincidentally, this title of mine has the same ring to it as ‘Love in the time of cholera’… (the one and only Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the writing always too morbid for my taste). Aware of being in the formative phase of being an IB educator, I am also deeply cognisant of my responsibilities as such.… Continue reading
