Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

Interesting research - How easy is it for your students to cheat with AI? https://buff.ly/4ed7gC6 When children set themselves the specific aim of avoiding detection: 50 per cent of the 12-year-olds bypassed detection. 38 per cent of the 13-year-olds bypassed detection. 100 per cent of the 17-year-olds bypassed detection.

A really useful Padlet collection of AI tools from Anna Cristina https://padlet.com/anacristina1210/my-epic-padlet-ai-for-educators-5qpccqyg2t8y6had

Interesting tool for leaving voice comments on Google Docs - Great for homework marking and feedback - Beep - Voice Notes for Google Classroom, Google Docs, & Gmail https://www.beepaudio.com/ - Video explainer here https://youtu.be/kKp0dIrQ2Gk?si=2RuxTLFMiQ9Eto20

Chalkie - AI Lesson Generator For Teachers https://chalkie.ai/ Yes another one! It has a useable free subscription.

This is a really nice video based activity to test whether you can detect when someone is lying - Detecting Deception https://learning.elucidat.com/course/5e15ef4ca5d25-5e15f0b95185a great listening and viewing practice

This is a really nice video based activity to test whether you can detect when someone is lying - Detecting Deception https://learning.elucidat.com/course/5e15ef4ca5d25-5e15f0b95185a great listening and viewing practice

Hi everyone - I’m doing some training and consultancy work in a couple of weeks time and I’d like some chalkface (is that still a thing) recommendations for AI tools to include - What would be your top 3 recommendations?

This looks like an interesting read - On my list when i find some time https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15/1/6

Anybody interested in building their own Chatbot? https://tech.co/news/how-to-build-a-no-code-chatbot

Here’s something for the weekend - An AI generated jazz version of the Beatles song Get Back https://youtu.be/R4s846_PRWI As a musician I find this a bit worrying.

Here’s a useful video from Russell Stannard looking at Deepseek https://youtu.be/oy4csahdkjg?si=OaIWOt4Jqi4ZqnD6

A systematic review of research on AI in language education: Current status and future implications https://www.lltjournal.org/item/10125-73606/

A huge collection of free sounds to download https://freesound.org/

Has anyone tried the new Chinese AI https://www.deepseek.com/ yet? Apparently it’s been developed at a fraction of the price and is better than ChatGPT!!!

Useful study tool for working with YouTube videos - Curate and annotate YouTube videos to uncover insights worth sharing. https://gistr.so/

This study shows huge promise - https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/From-chalkboards-to-chatbots-in-Nigeria

I just had an interesting chat with this AI avatar. He looked a bit twichy, but he was able to see into my room and start conversation about some of the things he could see. Pretty impressive. https://www.tavus.io/

This is a great article about education, assessment and the impact of AI - You'll need a LinkedIn account to access it. (9) The Lies We Tell Ourselves in Education | LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lies-we-tell-ourselves-education-john-dolman-wqkte/

This is a free web based app that enables you children to make an share stories together. It’s very colourful and easy to use the stories can be written(with or without the help of AI) recorded using voice or webcam. Something kids will love https://yarn.family/