Nik's Edtech & ELT Updates

I'm in the process of writing a book on AI and critical thinking, if you'd like a notification when it's ready and to get a free copy of it, then sign up for the waiting list here: https://getwaitlist.com/waitlist/30297 The top 10 people on the list will receive a free copy and everyone else who signs up will get a 50% discount. To get higher up the list you can recommend the book to friends and if they sign up too you'll move 5 places up the list.

How to partner with AI to engage with educational research It was great to be one of the presenters at this event for teacher educators. https://youtu.be/gaYRg3lvQYY?si=cD95gMKYUzxcsot-

Really nice lesson from Jamie Keddie on multimodality https://www.lessonstream.com/newsletters/lessonstream-post/posts/what-is-multimodality

Download a Free Copy - I'm celebrating 10 years since I successfully completed my crowdfunding project to raise money for my first book - Digital Video - A Manual for Language Teachers - Get a free copy: https://payhip.com/b/5n90

This looks like a really useful plugin for saving and retrieving improving your AI prompts. It works across a range of AI chatbots https://superprompts.framer.website/

This site has a collection of interesting writing prompt for students - You can also find example stories that have been submitted for their competitions: https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/

This article is well worth reading. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/against-brain-damage Against "Brain Damage" - AI can help, or hurt, our thinking. I particularly like the conclusion “Our fear of AI “damaging our brains” is actually a fear of our own laziness. The technology offers an easy out from the hard work of thinking, and we worry we'll take it. We should worry. But we should also remember that we have a choice. Your brain is safe. Your thinking, however, is up to you.”

Check out this free SDG lesson designer - powered by AI https://l.fobizz.com/SDG-Chatbot

A practical idea for developing multimodal literacy https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/multimodal-literacy-critical-identifying-bias-nik-peachey-mv7wf

Here’s a plugin for MS Word that claims to do your academic writing for you, including the research, all from within MSWord! I can see a lot of people getting upset about this ! https://www.fastwrite.io/en

This is a strange little app that creates dialogues based around images. You just upload an image and it creates the dialogue. It’s supposed to be for language learning and is based around translation. Creates kind of weird dialogues. For some reason I like it. https://www.viseal.ai

Fobizz have created this AI powered SDG lesson plan creator. No registration is required to try it out — unregistered users can send 10 prompts to the bot for free. If you sign up for a free account you can get 15 generations a month. 👉 https://l.fobizz.com/SDG-Chatbot Really useful for teaching students about the #SDGs.

I'll be doing another free TeacherMatic Training session this week on Thursday. Sign up for free and you'll also be sent a recording if you can't make it on the day. https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qWU1ZG30SrKd42tBRKUhig#/registration This session will be on: How to Create Custom Texts and Multiple Choice Quizzes which are CEFR accurate

Critical thinking and AI - Here's a short post with a prompt to help teachers develop their socratic questioning techniques https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-thinking-developing-socratic-questioning-nik-peachey-9zb7e

Your Synthetic Educator Looks Perfect, But Can It Actually Teach? - This is a really interesting article on the effectiveness of AI avatar led training. It seems that even avatars suffer from gender bias! https://drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/your-synthetic-educator-looks-perfect

An interesting article from Forbes - Silent Signals: How AI Can Read Between The Lines In Your Voice - "Paralinguistic voice analysis focuses on non-verbal elements of speech like tone, pitch, volume, pauses and rhythm that convey emotion, intention or attitude. While traditional voice recognition focused on transcribing spoken words, emotional AI adds a new layer: interpreting how those words are delivered." https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/07/03/silent-signals-how-ai-can-read-between-the-lines-in-your-voice/ Has multiple implications for teaching - especially languages

I’ll be sharing a panel debate next week with the venerable Daniel Xerri, Gary Motteram and Susan Dawson - hosted by British Council, this is a free discussion on ‘Human and artificial intelligence – a collaborative partnership’ - register for free: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teacher-educator/human-and-artificial-intelligence-collaborative?utm_campaign=ce-all-teachingenglish-global-teachereducatornewsletter

Here’s a free mind mapping creation tool https://www.mindmup.com/

Another honest and insightful post from The AI Teacher - AI Bytes Episode 24 – AI for Feedback: The Great TABOO! https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/ai-bytes-episode-24-ai-for-feedback-the-great-taboo/

Between now and 11th July you can download a free copy of this book from CUP - Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language Teaching - https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/generative-artificial-intelligence-and-language-teaching/DD0BFB0E89E500723D033B1EEB025F01