Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

My latest blog post - Cognitive dissonance and the most important critical thinking question ever https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/cognitive-dissonance-and-the-most-important-critical-thinking-question-ever

Some really interesting reading in this - The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025 https://www.edutopia.org/visual-essay/the-10-most-significant-education-studies-of-2025/ - Though no criteria for choosing these as the top 10.

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Check out this free online conference coming up soon (12th -14th Dec) it's particularly aimed at teachers who want to develop their own online business. https://teflhorizons.com/conference lots of people will be sharing their experience s, so what do you have to loose?

Here’s a nice lesson on helping students to identify deep fake videos https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-students-identify-fake-videos

This is a great site that helps you find walking/hike/biking trails. It suggests them based on search or location. Students can explore the options together then choose a walk - They can write a fictional account of the walk https://www.alltrails.com/

This is a nice sketchplanation of the 3 bricklayers story https://sketchplanations.com/the-three-bricklayers it explains the difference between, task, goal and vision - our students need to find their vision

This is quite an amazing site that will build media rich, interactive online courses and personalise them to your requirements based on a short interview process https://unfold.unlikefraction.com/ I built one on Teaching Kids Online and was impressed at the quality of the content.

This is a great round up of what’s going on with AI in education across the various platforms https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/this-academic-year-the-ai-education-landscape-has-shifted-again/

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here’s another AI tools directory https://navtools.ai/

Interesting video from PBS - How artificial intelligence is reshaping college for students and professors - https://youtu.be/rbCQKODKv1o?si=IS97S_gXw0O80f7E

This is an interesting no code AI powered app builder - Anyone know of similar platforms for building complex apps through AI prompting? https://www.rocket.new/

SpatialRead combines a PDF reader with an infinite canvas, all supercharged by AI. Instead of just "chatting," you can highlight any piece of text and use actions like Simplify, Explain, or Expand. Each new insight is added to the canvas as a new, connected node. You can literally watch your knowledge graph grow as you dive deeper into a topic. Can be downloaded to run locally https://spatialread.com/

This is a research focused AI tool - It’s in beta testing at the moment - Worth trying https://prismer.ai/

This is a short blog post with an AI prompt that makes reading more personalised and engaging https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/a-socratic-approach-to-using-ai-for-reading-research-papers

This is a fun site that has everything you have ever wanted to know about emojis on it. There is a museum, examples of scenes and even a tool to convert anything you write into emojis: https://emojistime.com/translator 🤔💭❓🗣️👍❓❤️❓

I didn't know there was a name for this - The ELIZA effect is a tendency to project human traits — such as experience, semantic comprehension or empathy — onto rudimentary computer programs having a textual interface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

This article really sums up what I’m finding in my own development alongside AI - The Role of an AI Tutor for the Lifelong Learner https://twdevoe.substack.com/p/the-role-of-an-ai-tutor-for-the-lifelong If there’s a single shift the AI tutor brings to lifelong learning, it’s this: learning becomes less about consuming content and more about entering a dialogue. You ask, it responds. You try, it observes. You reflect, it reframes.

Here’s a free form builder for building polls, surveys and tests. Unlimited forms and responses on a free subscription https://www.finalform.so/