Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

This is an app for quickly creating children's stories, jokes and songs. There are some examples to listen to and read on the site https://kazkar.com/

Llamaroo is an AI lesson planning platform for YL teachers that generates gamified, activities in minutes. Use Llamaroo to quickly build interactive lessons for any topic. The platform follows strict privacy practices to avoid tracking children or exposing them to an AI model. https://llamaroo.com/

Check out my latest Edtech & ELT newsletter. With links to useful apps, articles and reports https://open.substack.com/pub/nikpeachey/p/edtech-and-elt-newsletter-may-2026

This infographic has 10 common thinking errors - Get students to identify the one they think they most commonly do https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/e4/a3/c9/e4a3c9143eaab7bd9b682fb8eb1edc62.jpg

This is an interesting site that shows global stats from around the world in real time, so you can see for example how quickly the world population is growing https://www.worldometers.info/

Don’t Blame the Oblong - This is a good balanced argument about the dangers of phones and social media and what we should be doing as teachers https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/dont-blame-the-oblong/

This is a really fascinating site that allows you to browse through and explore areas of knowledge by generating infographic type images in your browser https://www.sketchapedia.com Really great for learers who are more visual.

Free training and resource here available for educators at K12 or higher ed level - These are provided by Google so will obviously have a vested interest in pushing you towards using their tolls - so ... https://edu.google.com/learning-center/google-ai-educator-series/

This site calculates the cost of small habits over long periods of time. It's also interactive so students can try to guess. Nice for discussion warmers https://www.thecostof.fyi/

This is an interesting site that shares the story and history behind specific colours - Not something you usually think about - Get students to research a colour and share what they discover https://storiedcolors.com/

This is an interesting tool for converting a written blog into a video with audio monologue. You can create 3 video for free, then pay for individual videos at $4 a video which is pretty cheap. https://blog2video.app/ - Here's an example I created from a blog post of mine. https://blog2video.app/preview/6850ce55ef8f0302c3098db90007c83fc4555a92e248dc1f8a25ca816f574d9a It has no images, so I'd need to pay $4 to add them.

If you have students who are interested in roleplaying type games, then this is a good way to develop their English https://www.mythx.ai/

A useful tool for downloading videos from Facebook so that you can use them offline in the classroom https://savefbs.com

Interesting article with some useful balanced points https://futureofeducation.substack.com/p/not-all-screen-time-is-equal Not All Screen Time Is Equal

You can do a free course of CEFR alignment here: https://teachermatic.com/resources/cefr-alignment-for-teachers/?utmcampaign=Nik&utmsource=May-2026 This hands-on, interactive course helps language teachers align, evaluate and adapt generated texts. It will strengthen your ability to make pedagogically sound decisions for learners at different CEFR levels.

I'll be speaking at this AI Symposium on Saturday https://isel.education/ai-symposium-2026/

This is a wonderful interactive site for anyone interested in history - select an event and you can explore the causes and effects of the event. Really great way to learn https://cateno.app/

This is a nice activity for students. They can interview an astronaut. They do this by selecting questions and then they see a video response. https://askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org/ No AI just real people.

Some really useful links in the British Council Teacher Educator newsletter -This one focuses on teacher observation https://culturalengagementemails.britishcouncil.org/teacher-educator-newsletter-may-2026