Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

Get you learners talking with this series of 30 lessons. You can get 75% off each lesson for the next 2 weeks https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/collection/conversation-listening-lesson-plans

This is a great site to get learners talking an dthinking - It's based on the classic "Would you rather...?" game. Get them to choose which they prefer and why. Enjoy https://wouldyourather.app

Just published my free Edtech and ELT newsletter for April 26 https://open.substack.com/pub/nikpeachey/p/edtech-and-elt-newsletter-april-2026

MindDory wraps your target vocabulary in short AI-generated stories, so your brain encodes words with context attached. https://minddory.com/ It looks like it's only available for iPhone at present.

Ask a question and get a structured report with clickable citations, not a wall of text. Every finding can branch into a sub-topic, and the tool auto-draws a knowledge map so you can see how your research fits together. https://innogath.com/ The site has a useable free subscription

This is the slide deck from the presentation I did #IATEFL2026 on behalf of the British Council. The presentation looked at mapping AI functions onto the CPD framework. https://view.genially.com/69d640d907ee5ae12d4f6b99

This is a nice daily guessing game activity based around images and identifying when they were taken. Good warmer and good to get learners justifying their choice of year https://whichyr.com/

This is a nice site that lets you share a link to a song and say what it means to you. You can also see what others have posted. This is a nice warmer activitry for the classroom https://www.thissongmeant.me/

Here you can see my interview with the IATEFL online team - Talking about AI of course: https://www.youtube.com/live/wR9Mp6JtiF4?si=aS2vScQmPlyhTNJg&t=1766

You can watch all of the IATEFL 2026 conference plenaries here: https://www.iateflconference.org/about-the-conference/plenary-recordings

The AI Index 2026 Annual Report by Stanford University https://hai.stanford.edu/assets/files/ai_index_report_2026.pdf

This is a nice site if you or your learners like Quizzes https://geniusquiz.co/

This is another tool for creating a course from notes and documents https://holospark.ai/ Holospark turns your topic to study into a clear, structured course with summaries, tables, quizzes, and an AI tutor that helps you master the topic.

Here's a free flashcard creator https://solvely.ai/app/ai-study You can drop documents or presentations into it and it's generate flashcards to help you learn and remember the content.

10 Activities to develop students’ empathy through visual narrative https://peacheypublications.com/10-activities-to-develop-students-empathy-through-visual-narrative In this article I would like to share a few simple activities that we can use with visual narrative to encourage students to put themselves into the lives, minds and feelings of others and to see beyond the surface appearance.

Here's the lates edition of Media and Learning https://media-and-learning.eu/ Lots of interesting articles and events.

Download a free copy of my very first book for PeacheyPublications.com. Digital Video - A Manual for Language Teachers https://bit.ly/2UM7B6L

Developing Course Content for Teaching Online https://oxfordtefl.com/blog/developing-course-content-for-teaching-online/ A collection of tips and tools for online teachers.

This is my step by step guide to planning a presentation or workshop https://bit.ly/3EMezky might be handy if you haven't prepared your IATEFL presentation yet.

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