"I'll never, ever get anywhere close to fluent with @Duolingo," says @UCLA linguistics professor vice.com/en_us/article/are-d… via @MikeLeePearl

Beyond words: reverse-engineering the universal translator tcrn.ch/2iRePGX via @vadimberman

Most-read/shared 2016 stories reflect a growing hunger for reliable information about #EdTech blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Digi… via @BenjaminBHerold

Linguist @LanguageLog assesses @realDonaldTrump: "The disordered language of a person with a concentration problem" vox.com/policy-and-politics/…

Switching to English as its official language, @Volkswagen aims to attract high-level management eurac.tv/5E4O via @SamJamesMorgan

You don’t have to be a Jedi to appreciate these hidden pedagogical gems from @StarWars shar.es/1Dgwpr via @education_world

Google’s decision to reorganize itself around #AI has become an industrywide machine-learning delirium. nyti.ms/2hMxZcr

Robot Revolution: #AI systems will teach us to trust machine intelligence over the human variety," writes @liu_cixin nyti.ms/2hi2SFs

"This is a big advance" says @kchonyc @nyuniversity as Google Translate's #AI invents its own language newscientist.com/article/211… via @SamWong1

Neuroscience research shows "bilingualism is an experience that shapes our brain for a lifetime” ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/… via @anya1anya

English for beginners: @Allegro_Group knocks the ball out of the park with this lovely advertisement! youtube.com/watch?v=tU5Rnd-H… #czegoszukasz

Is this #AI? @GoogleResearch trains its neural networks by hand with a massive team of PhD linguists. wired.com/2016/11/googles-se… via @CadeMetz

Video: @Unbabel combines #AI with human expertise to perfect language translation. But why do we still need humans? cnnmon.ie/2gBy1Uf

Digital Trends in #edTech include @usedgov's "Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education" inc.com/drew-hendricks/4-dig… via @DrewAHendricks

"Cognitive/#AI already embedded in almost every kind of enterprise application or process," says @IDC's @dschubmehl bit.ly/2ea6Q1G

If aliens invaded, how would we talk to them? @kate_baggaley discusses maybe the toughest linguistic challenge ever. po.st/jfnzdQ

Thanks to @LearnLaunch @MHEducation @NEIBCorg for including @Contextors in Tuesday's Israeli #EdTech event. VIDEO: tinyurl.com/contextors-demo-…

Pros and Cons of 1-to-1 Computing edudemic.com/one-to-one-comp… via @edudemic