Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

From skepticism to success: How AI is helping teachers transform classrooms in Peru - Very positive report as you would expect from Microsoft: https://news.microsoft.com/source/latam/features/ai/world-bank-peru-teachers-copilot/?lang=en

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Great that Midjourney is now free of Discord and can be accessed independently - Explore one of the best AI image generators https://www.midjourney.com/explore?tab=top

Great that Midjourney is now free of Discord and can be accessed independently - Explore one of the best AI image generators https://www.midjourney.com/explore?tab=top

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Some nice free interactive books for kids here. They work a little like games and there’s even scoring: https://www.wonderstories.app/

Some interesting comments from teachers in this article about how AI has impact their teaching https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

This is a fantastic free tool for EAP or ESP students - It will simplify any complex text/paragraph and make it easily understandable. There are a number of specialist versions for science and medicine too https://justeli5.com/

This is a simple but interesting site that allows you to compare yourself to 100 other people and it will tell you how you see your self in relation to them. There are lots of interesting questions. Great tool for getting discussion going about people's perception of themselves and comparing across the class https://thanaverage.xyz/

Really interesting ideas for using AI to develop critical thinking. https://educationfutures.com/post/how-did-we-get-from-schools-kill-creativity-to-ai-kills-creativity-in-schools/ How did we get from “schools kill creativity” to “AI kills critical thinking in schools?”

I’ll be doing a free webinar for the ICC later in June. Register now to get a place https://icc-languages.eu/webinars/

I’ll be doing this free webinar for the ICC later in June - Register now to attend https://icc-languages.eu/webinars/

This is both fascinating and a bit annoying - Just ask it for a story and wait a few seconds ! https://leoline.fun/ here’s a demo video: https://youtu.be/yGgUaTRcNCE

This is an interesting perspective “While people who have spent years cultivating their writing skills might bemoan the arrival of AI-assisted writing, there is also a much more optimistic way to view these changes. Until now, the ability to write well was inherently elitist. People fortunate enough to have the time and financial capacity to pursue higher education were better positioned to produce excellent writing.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ai-has-rendered-traditional-writing-skills-obsolete-education-needs-to-adapt/

This is a really useful free image editing tool https://trimspace.online/editor

This is a really useful AI plugin for Google Docs. Created by a teach https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/educator_ai_assistant/336256034275

AI Research in Education: What We Don’t Know Could Hurt Us Well worth reading. https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/ai-research-in-education-what-we-dont-know-could-hurt-us/

This is a really useful article with some useful AI terms and concepts that have been explained in an easy to understand way: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/25/from-llms-to-hallucinations-heres-a-simple-guide-to-common-ai-terms/

Interesting discussion of ethics in AI https://mglink.org/2025/05/23/what-is-ethical-ai/

A very useful file type converter. This can save hours of frustration https://vert.sh/