Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

This is a short post with an activity for develop critical thinking through moral dilemmas https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/develop-critical-thinking-through-moral-dilemmas

In this short post I describe how students can use AI for autonomous pronunciation development https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/ai-for-autonomous-pronunciation-development

AI - Critical Thinking & Bloom https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/ai-critical-thinking-bloom Just copy and paste the prompt and the text you want to use.

Really useful and powerful free audio editing software https://www.ocenaudio.com/

There are lots of really interesting articles to read in the latest issue of Humanistic Language Teaching https://www.hltmag.co.uk/oct25/

What Happened When We All Stopped, narrated by Jane Goodall https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/what-happened-when-we-all-stopped-narrated-by-jane-goodall

Really useful article - How to Build a Community in Your Classroom https://www.barefootteflteacher.com/p/how-to-build-a-community

Here's a classroom activity that helps students visualise complex concepts https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/exploiting-visual-explanations-sketchplanations

Here's an article I worte for Oxford TEFL - Get Started with One-to-One English Teaching (and Become Your Own Boss) https://oxfordtefl.com/blog/get-started-with-one-to-one-english-teaching-and-become-your-own-boss/ - it focuses mainly on the practical aspects rather than the pedagogical ones and includes advice from my 18 years of working freelance.

Here’s A Personal Reflection Activity - How average are you? https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/a-personal-reflection-activity-how-average-are-you

Here's the September edition of my free Edtech & ELT Newsletter https://bit.ly/3IAVFml

Check out this free learning activity - Building Curiosity - Deserted Hotels in Japan https://bit.ly/3IEyvvq

This is a wonderful tool for prioritising tasks - Nice one to teach students about https://labs.davidbauer.ch/priority-compass/

75 Nice thing you can do for yourself - Get your students to read them and pick 3 - 4 - They can explain their rationale for their choices and how it will make them feel better. https://mailchi.mp/ladyswagger/75-nice-little-things-to-do-for-yourself

The Pessimism Archive and The AI Doomsday Apocalypse https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/the-pessimism-archive-and-the-ai-doomsday-apocalypse - An activity for students

Here’s a useful 10 minute podcast on Multilingualism in the English language classroom https://sonalabs.io/episode/db8671e7-ac39-4dd4-b499-0a866b65a561

This makes interesting reading/viewing https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ai-actress-tilly-norwood-talent-agents-zurich-summit-1236533454/

Here is my latest Sunday Thoughts & Suggestions - This is number 13 and includes: 1. A SEL activity - Releasing doubts 2. The Pessimism Archive & The Doomsday Apocalypse 3. Multimodality - Eating Swans! Enjoy https://eomail5.com/web-version?p=2f04afa0-9c2f-11f0-9b65-6f1f7edddad5&pt=campaign&t=1759040733&s=12b7bf6e5d6f17d85e3f0a721b59ce16c5100dd591275642d35c804c1bca8eee

I used Sonalab to produce this really interesting podcast on the role of body language in communication and language learning https://sonalabs.io/episode/dc4a492b-8c6a-4990-ab59-446b5f8577b8

My collection of over 500 infographics (on Pinterest) that can be used with students: https://uk.pinterest.com/nikpeachey/infographics-for-students/