Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

This is an interesting free tool to help develop reading and typing skills. It's based around literary classics, though you can upload your own text if you wish. https://www.typelit.io/

The Barnum effect https://sketchplanations.com/the-barnum-effect A great sketchplanation of the Barnum Effect - should generate some discussion with students.

This looks like a potentially powerful combination of AI and Community to enable English language learning. https://www.fluento.ai/

Here's a FreeFriday Lesson Plan. Laughter & Apology The ability to apologise and ask for forgiveness is something that many people, even as adults, struggle with. Developing this ability can have a powerfully positive impact on our relationships with others. This lesson starts with a discussion of humour and moves on to help students structure an apology by using a short humorous video. Download the lesson To download the lesson plan, click the button below, click on ‘Buy Now’. Add your details Before you pay, type in the coupon code: FREEFRIDAY This will reduce the price by to $0 Get the Lesson Now https://payhip.com/b/uj7k

Here's another great AI tool for generating images with a daily free allowance of 40 images https://visualelectric.com/inspo

Another AI platform to support teaching https://mindjoy.com/ This one offers learning insights too

Another free image generator https://gencraft.com/

Another free AI tool for helping teachers. This one includes AI detection, though I wouldn't like to guess how accurate it might be. https://www.briskteaching.com/

Microsofts Seeing AI seems to be making remarkable progress https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/seeing-ai

This is a great free tool for creating images and posters. There's not much information visible about it until you sign up, but when you do it's very impressive and simple too use. https://ideogram.ai

Which is most significant for you? https://www.edutopia.org/article/10-most-significant-education-studies-2023

An AI tools search engine https://www.trendingaitools.com/

Interesting article on AI proofing assignments https://eliterate.us/how-to-chatgpt-proof-analysis-assignments/

This is an article I wrote for OUP https://teachingenglishwithoxford.oup.com/2023/11/23/multimodal-literacy-english-language-classroom/

Interesting free site to teach fact checking https://get.checkology.org/

This is a free voice changing app that works in real time https://dubbingai.io/

Ineresting AI tool for teacher development https://www.edthena.com/ai-coach-for-teachers/

This is a nice simple to use free online whiteboard https://www.tldraw.com/

Well, it’s the first of December, and it looks like I’ve finally managed to get my FreeFridays back to Friday. There are a number of free offers in this message and not just the lesson plan, so please do read through. Emotional Intelligence This week’s FreeFriday lesson plan is based around the topic of Emotional Intelligence and its importance in the workplace. This lesson comes from the Lessons in Digital Literacy series. https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/collection/lessons-in-digital-literacy Download the Plan To download the plan, click the link below, click on ‘Buy Now’. Add your details Before you pay, type in the coupon code: FREEFRIDAY This will reduce the price to $0 Download Now https://payhip.com/b/EhTj

Interesting video here about the future of AI https://youtu.be/lgwrRn1uHkg?si=YQN-w9_DBs8DRzAh