Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

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This is a great writing game called Death By AI. The AI creates scenarios and you have to explain quickly how you will escape and survive https://deathbyai.gg/

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A useful article that explains some of the issues around AI an plagiarism https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2024/06/02/the-plagiarism-factory-copy-paste-forget/

This is another teacher admin support tool that includes tools for marking and giving feedback on students’ work. The free version includes 20 different teacher support tools https://www.briskteaching.com/

Some really nice interactive content on the Google Arts and Culture site https://artsandculture.google.com/

A useful site for finding good news stories to share with students. https://happydaze.io/

This should keep you busy for a while https://daily.jstor.org/artificial-intelligence-and-education-a-reading-list/

A useful article from Edutopia https://www.edutopia.org/article/ai-tools-lesson-planning

Great site if you are looking for positive news stories for your stduents https://happydaze.io/

This is an interesting AI audio generator that you can promt with descriptions of the type of audio and speech features you want it to produce https://huggingface.co/spaces/parler-tts/parler_tts_mini

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Amazy is a fantastic tool for creating interactive worksheets for students. It's a bit like an interactive version of Twee and also has an LMS for tracking students answers https://buff.ly/4dTtg5T There's even a community that shares lesson materials. It can create lots of different types of activities, including ones that enable student to record and submit their speaking for evaluation.

This is a nice site where you can select a city and then watch a virtual walk around the city. The video quality is very good, and you can also have the sound on. Great to get students taking walks and then telling their peers what they saw and where they went. https://citywalks.live/

Really interesting article with some useful insights and suggestions https://spencerauthor.com/ai-academic-integrity/