Eltbooks: Japan

"Look," Dave said to a room of skeptical 50-year-old tenured professors. "You are tired of the photocopier. You are tired of the CD-ROM that doesn't work on Macs. With Flex , you choose the topic. The AI builds the worksheet. You control the difficulty."

That evening, after the fair closed, Kenji took Dave to a izakaya (pub) in Omoide Yokocho. They sat under the smoke of a yakitori grill. eltbooks japan

Dave winced. He had written that unit. He had stayed up until 2 AM writing that unit. But he had also been forced to "Japanize" it by Kenji. Kenji had insisted that the listening dialogue feature a baito (part-timer) who was rude to his senpai (senior), because Kenji thought it was funny. In Japan, you never publish a textbook where a junior employee is rude. It violates wa (harmony). It was a disaster. "Look," Dave said to a room of skeptical

A professor raised his hand. "What about cheating? The students will use ChatGPT to do the homework." With Flex , you choose the topic

"I hate digital books," she said. "But I hate my students sleeping through my class more. Show me how to build a unit on 'Comparing Haiku to Modern Poetry.'"