Ep244. ft. Leandro Paladino - AI, Multilingualism & the Future Skills Every Language Teacher Will Need (Part 2)

AI is changing education faster than teacher training can keep up. So what should language teachers actually be learning now? In Part 2 with teacher educator Leandro Paladino , we move beyond professional development into a much bigger question: What will it mean to be a great language teacher in the future? AI literacy matters. Digital pedagogy matters. Critical thinking matters. But Leandro argues that education has become so complex that younger teachers can easily become overwhelmed by everything they are suddenly expected to master. AI. Green ELT. Decolonization. Digital citizenship. Intercultural citizenship. Multilingualism. Well-being. Inclusion. And somewhere inside all of that… teachers still have students sitting in front of them. This conversation explores why the future of teaching may require technological adaptation without abandoning the fundamentals that make education human. We discuss: • AI and the rapidly changing future of language education • Why predicting education 10 years ahead may already be unrealistic • Student well-being as a prerequisite for learning • The expanding responsibilities of modern language teachers • Native-speakerism and why being a na...