Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

Interesting article about the role of AI in learning and assessment https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/14/ai-artificial-intelligence-disrupt-education-creativity-critical-thinking

MyTales Co-write stories with an AI assistant https://mytales.io/

A collection of videos for learning various things https://www.classhook.com/

Castup AI: ChatGPT-powered podcast assistant https://bit.ly/3O7t5Zz. This is interesting and produces the script and marketing ideas for your podcast

Generate original children's stories with the help of Artificial Intelligence https://bit.ly/43hF6Qr as with others, the problem is getting the image series to match up

Ask pholosophical questions and get answers from your choice of philosopher (The starnge that Will Shakespeare is among them!) https://philosophy.fyi/

This is a nice fact or fake game. Just add the topic and students have to guess whether it’s a fact or a fake statement https://joinplayroom.com/games/fax/

This week, I have a very special offer for those of you who would like to learn more about AI and its potential. For the next 48 hours, we are offering a 40% discount on our ChatGPT in the Language Classroom Course. The course is 100% asynchronous, and you can take all the time you need to complete it. You’ll work through meaningful lessons with development tasks, complete hands-on practical assignments, become part of a community of educators and at the end you’ll get a book containing the lessons from the course as well as a certificate. Best of all, you’ll get lots of practical ideas and activities that you can use to save hours of time and enhance your classroom teaching. To get your 40% discount, click on the button below. Scroll down to the big green ‘Sign Up’ button Then look for ‘Apply Coupon Code’ and add FLASHFRIDAY This will reduce the price of the course by 40% ($24) Join the Course Now https://payhip.com/b/Jkauf

Here’s a free tool that helps you learn English using either WhatsApp or Telegram https://zaplingo.com/

This is an interesting autonomous learning tool, though you only get one conversation for free. It asks you questions to guide you through the learning process and then suggests resources such as links to videos to help you learn more. Unfortunately it’s $14.99 a month after the first conversationbut it does help to give an idea of what the learning potential is: https://joypanner.com/

https://nolej.io/ This is a really useful tool for rapidly creating interactive online learning content using AI. It looks like it’s based on the H5P platform. There’s a free trial but after that it’s $19 per month. It’s well worth it if you are only using it for a month or two to develop a course.

Get students to brainstorm ways they have benefitted from space exploration. Then they can compare to the infographic and see how many of the inventions have impacted their lives https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/5t576r65fn7b1-768x6745.jpg

This site enables you to create gamified online courses. The site is free to use and there is also a free app. Once you have created your course and started selling the company takes a percentage of your sales. This looks good and there are already a few language courses on it. the design style looks like it would work well for delivering courses for children https://educup.com/

My AI generated presentation on how to change mindset https://buff.ly/3PzESkG Made using Gamma https://buff.ly/447SW9v

You can download this for free until 4th July https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/new-frontiers-in-language-and-technology/67A70193E5EEEFDB809CF3F8ACF12F1E#