Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

This is a great free classroom tool for organising pair and group speaking activities in class. https://yapyapgo.com/ Add a class list and then generate pairs and groupings and select and change speaking topics. It's the sort of tool you could use with zero prep every lesson for warmers and fillers or longer speaking activities and IELTs practice

Clico is a free AI writing assistant for Chrome. Select text for answers, summarize articles, and draft replies without leaving your tab. https://tryclico.com/

This looks like a great tool for creating presentations based on your own notes or research. Just upload your information then AI will generate a presentation based on it. https://decksy.com/ Great for designing presentations to go with course materials or for presenting research. You can create one presentation each day for free.

This is a free tool that can generate visuals and infographics from text. https://www.tenorshare.ai/diagrimo.html This is a mice way to create multimodal materials.

"In AI for ELT: From Pixels to Pedagogy, award-winning educator and edtech expert Nik Peachey takes you on an inspiring journey through the world of AI-generated imagery and its transformative potential in English language teaching. " https://payhip.com/b/ByhLU

The Portrait of a Teacher project aims to redefine the role of educators in response to the rapid technological and workforce changes shaping society. https://www.ed3global.org/portraitofateacher

My curated collection of digital tools from the last 16 years https://www.scoop.it/topic/tools-for-learners Wow! Time really flies!

This is a great collection of free icons that you can edit in the browser and use in projects to make them look more professional https://t.co/sz2z5cTvnK

This is a free AI powered voice dictation app for Mac users https://tryspeaktype.com/

Develop your public speaking skills with this AI powered speaking course. There's a 14 day free trial. It looks like an interestng concept for teachers and learners: https://orateur.app/

Love this essay - The wandering mind: A gift we squander https://dariusforoux.com/the-wandering-mind-a-gift-we-squander/

Free - Telling Lies - Infographic Lessons https://payhip.com/b/nLz9D You can download this lesson plan and materials for free until the end of this month. The lesson is from the Infographics lessons series https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/collection/inforgraphic-lessons

New March 2026 report from Common Sense Media - Cognitive and Safety risks of AI highlight the need to move beyond trying to catch the use of AI to the intentional teaching of AI Literacy in K-12 https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/commonsensemedia_generationai.pdf

Mindspase is a visual, AI-powered knowledge base that automatically organizes everything you save, articles, images, videos, music, quotes, PDFs, with zero folders or manual tagging. https://mindspase.com

This is an interesting AI platform that generates multimodal courses for you as you work through the content. It even seems to have revision built in. It will also generate the type of content (images, infographics etc) that will suit the content at each stage. https://smartlearnapp.com/?ref=DMWEuaMfxFRXWTmfUE4Ws6b2xll2 There's a good video explainer on the home page.

This is a nice free reflective journal that sends you 3 reflection questions each day at a specific time https://reflct.co/

“Is AI rotting our kids’ brains?” https://futureofeducation.substack.com/p/ask-me-anything-27-is-ai-rotting Interesting research and conclusions

Interesting article about the use of AI to support teens’ mental health - With Teens Comfortable Confiding in AI, Should Schools Embrace It for Mental Health Care? https://www.edsurge.com/news/2026-03-03-with-teens-comfortable-confiding-in-ai-should-schools-embrace-it-for-mental-health-care

Great interview with Seth Godin about AI and creativity - It's about 40 minutes long though. https://youtu.be/LFOvsXvO63k?si=Nrj2Bie0qxKtAcgM

This is a scarily impressive tool for rapidly developing interactive online, mobile friendly courses. https://quikauthor.io/ I create a credible course without providing any base content in about 10 -15 minutes!!