Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

Another ‘Must Read’ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19452829.2025.2518313

This is free to download and will definitely be on my reading list: Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education - Uplifting Teaching and Learning for All https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003532224

Turn images into pixel ‘art’ ! aipixelart.net Remind you of anyone???

Create video avatars talking heads - There's a free and a reasonable priced subscription. https://www.jogg.ai/

This is only available on iOS at the moment, but it does look interesting https://ondevice-ai.app/ Transform voice into text instantly and collaborate with powerful AI teams - all offline and private. The Best Large Language Models (LLMs) and real-time voice transcription directly on your Device, without internet!

Today is the last chance to sign up to the waiting list and get a half price copy of my new book - Developing Critical Thinking Skills With AI: A Guide for Teachers - https://getwaitlist.com/waitlist/30297

How to develop your own and your students' use of hand gestures to enable clear communication https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/multimodal-literacy-hand-gestures-nik-peachey-7ff3e

I’m not sure that I could do this, but … https://oplin.me/ Experience authentic conversations through secure video chat. Meet fascinating people from different cultures in a safe, moderated environment.

I'll be doing a free webinar on AI and Critical Thinking on the Fobizz platform on 28th August - You can find more information and register here: https://app.fobizz.com/fortbildungen/2936-ai-for-critical-thinking

A prompt to help you integrate critical thinking into your syllabus. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/developing-critical-thinking-syllabus-ai-nik-peachey-eyh6e

Try talking to a lifelike AI online https://www.tavus.io/

By working through the lessons in this book, you should be able to develop your knowledge of AI prompting to a level where you are able to rapidly produce core content and edit and fine tune it for your students. https://payhip.com/b/mvsco

This is a really nice idea if you teach younger learners. You can convert photographs into colouring book pages and then print them. There is a huge collection of ready to print pages in the gallery that you can access for free https://coloring.app/

This is a useful tool if you have audio recordings to transcribe https://inkr.app/?l=en

You can use this voice changer tool to record an audio and then change it to a different voice https://elevenlabs.io/voice-changer

A website and a prompt to help educate students about internet scams https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-thinking-detecting-internet-scams-nik-peachey-ofqze

Get this lesson plan for free for the next 3 days. Just use the coupon code FREEFRIDAY before you pay https://payhip.com/b/9AoR Two old friends meet in the street, but are they really friends? Do they even know each other?This lesson is based on an image of two old people meeting in the street. Help students build empathy with older generations.

This site is a really useful source of factual information - It gives facts rather than opinions so 'should' be unbiased - Interesting to explore with students and get them to write version with bias applied. https://join1440.com/

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