Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

From the title it seems like this is about productivity, but it also says a lot about creativity and our future as teachers https://seths.blog/2025/07/productivity-ai-and-pushback/

I created an AI image for a lesson plan back in 2023, now I’m updating with an image created by AI today. Here’s the difference:

Some nice practical suggestions in this article - Seeing isn’t always believing: Helping children understand media manipulation https://media-and-learning.eu/subject/media-literacy/seeing-isnt-always-believing-helping-children-understand-media-manipulation/

Here’s a recording of my webinar presentation for ICC. This one is on - Prompting for AI-Mediated Autonomous Teacher Development - https://youtu.be/_RKnKgaf59g?si=LxY63XZjNrwAnKlz

Download a free copy of this teacher resource book - Cooperative Learning and the Sustainable Development Goals https://payhip.com/b/obOwr This invaluable resource is packed with a diverse collection of lesson plans, expert tips, and innovative teaching techniques

This is a short article / tip on how to find out more about gestural literacy and nonverbal communication https://bit.ly/4nq4sH8

Amazing how far Midjourney has been able to push AI generated video - https://www.midjourney.com/explore?tab=video_top

This is an interesting site/service that you can use when you receive suspicious emails - You just forward the email on to their email address and after confirming your email you get an AI generated analysis of the email to tell you the likelihood that it is a scam. - Get students analysing the reports https://snitcher.space/ Be sure to check your spam folder for the report! : )

A short article with some suggestion on AI and critical thinking https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/prompt-developing-critical-thinking-fallacies-nik-peachey-nzbue/?trackingId=zJMlEANRRh6UHhtgNMgyVw%3D%3D

Useful article - You can either listen or read Ethics Is the Edge: The Future of AI in Higher Education https://er.educause.edu/articles/2025/6/ethics-is-the-edge-the-future-of-ai-in-higher-education

here’s an AI song generator https://himusic.io/

If like me you are fascinated with ghost towns and what happened to them you'll love this https://www.atlasobscura.com/categories/ghost-towns Get students to pick one each and find out the story behind it, then share the stories in groups.

This is a new lesson I just release in a series on Multimodal Literacy. This one looks at an aspect of gestural literacy - Reading Faces https://payhip.com/b/mQ4nW

GAIDE: A Framework for Using Generative AI to Assist in Course Content Development https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.12276

Here’s a tool for creating interactive worksheets based around any study materials you upload. You can do 3 for free, then you pay $10 for every 60 worksheets you create. So you only pay for what you use https://www.aisheets.study/

Here’s a tool for creating interactive worksheets based around any study materials you upload. You can do 3 for free, then you pay $10 for every 60 worksheets you create. So you only pay for what you use https://www.aisheets.study/

I'm doing some research into Gestural Literacy at the moment and I can across this. Good for teaching communication skills https://youtu.be/dX7zIpHaAXE

This is a really easy to use free note taking app. It doesn’t even require a log in https://onlinenotespad.com/