Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

This is an interesting poem you could use with students https://poets.org/poem/earth-0

This is very low-tech, but wonderful - Download a free collection of paper cutouts for building narrative and visual communication https://apphaus.sap.com/resource/scenes

Get sts to discuss their tea drinking habits, then choose one type of tea to try. https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/dbwux9p72tbb1.jpg

Lingostar This is a language tutor chatbot that students can talk to in multiple languages. Students can choose the topic they discuss and the AI will initiate conversation. Students are given target words they should try to use in the conversation. It can provide translations and dictionary definitions of any new words. https://www.lingostar.ai/

Some interesting predictions about the top 15 most powerful economies over the next 50 years. Good for discussion with business/economics students https://bit.ly/3q35Dne

Interesting article here on AI and privacy: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-ai-tools-protect-privacy/

Here’s a blog post I wrote during COVID. Any ideas for additional platforms I can add to this collection? https://oxfordtefl.com/blog/9-free-alternatives-to-zoom-for-getting-your-classroom-online/

10 Activities to develop students’ empathy through visual narrative https://peacheypublications.com/10-activities-to-develop-students-empathy-through-visual-narrative

Scroll down to a great collection of open access free white papers from CUP https://www.cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish/better-learning-insights/pedagogy

Get any of our Teacher Resource books half price for the next 48 hours by using the coupon code FLASHFRIDAY https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/collection/teacher-resource-books

Here’s an AI glossary from the BBC https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230717-what-you-should-know-about-artificial-intelligence-from-a-z

I really like this idea as a way of using TikTok to help focus https://www.edsurge.com/news/2023-07-13-students-turn-to-tiktok-for-study-buddies

A look inside the modern classroom. Is your classroom like this? https://bit.ly/3NQl6yE.

This is an interesting that creates a todo list from any task you tell it about. Very useful for helping students to plan and manage time. There are a few other useful tools linked to it that are worth exploring too: https://goblin.tools/

How well do you know your bread? Nice warmer activity for students https://facts.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Types-of-Bread.jpg

Interesting article and infographic https://drsaraheaton.wordpress.com/2023/02/25/6-tenets-of-postplagiarism-writing-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/

10 Tips to stop students using AI to cheat - Text by ChatGPT and video by Lumen5 https://buff.ly/3Dfsuib #esl #efl #elt #tesol #eal #tefl #edtech #edtools #AI #ChatGPT

Answer a sequence of questions, and then this AI tool will produce a presentation deck for you. https://buff.ly/3Zu57dC