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How to develop your own and your students' use of hand gestures to enable clear communication https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/multimodal-literacy-hand-gestures-nik-peachey-7ff3e

Today is the last chance to sign up to the waiting list and get a half price copy of my new book - Developing Critical Thinking Skills With AI: A Guide for Teachers -
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This is only available on iOS at the moment, but it does look interesting https://ondevice-ai.app/ Transform voice into text instantly and collaborate with powerful AI teams - all offline and private. The Best Large Language Models (LLMs) and real-time voice transcription directly on your Device, without internet!

Create video avatars talking heads - There's a free and a reasonable priced subscription. https://www.jogg.ai/

Turn images into pixel ‘art’ ! aipixelart.net Remind you of anyone???

This is free to download and will definitely be on my reading list: Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education - Uplifting Teaching and Learning for All https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003532224

Another ‘Must Read’ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19452829.2025.2518313

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Critical Thinking and AI - The Mock Viva - The two interactive prompts in this article can be used by students to challenge their thinking and opinions and give them formative feedback on their work. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/critical-thinking-ai-mock-viva-nik-peachey-sul2e

Notiq — Private Voice Memos is a privacy-first note-taking app that lets you capture voice, text, and scanned notes — all securely stored on your device. Powered by on-device AI, Notiq transcribes speech in real-time without sending any data to the cloud. No accounts, no internet — just your thoughts, instantly saved and fully encrypted https://toriviktoria.github.io/notiq-public/ Only available for iOS at present

On the surface this is an article comparing GPT to Gemini, but there are some more important points about learning and attitudes to learning underlying the discussion. https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2025/08/09/the-ai-in-education-arms-race-google-vs-openai/

My latest free edtech and ELT newsletter - August 2025 - with links to free articles and apps for learning https://nikpeachey.substack.com/p/edtech-and-elt-newsletter-august

Another AI powered study tool https://studyfox.pro/

It looks like Ideogram may have cracked the problem of character consitency in AI generated images. Why does this mater? because it means that you can have a consistent character in multiple images when you create illustrations for stories or create video stories. https://about.ideogram.ai/character Give it a try for free.

This is an article I wrote a couple of years ago comparing AI to human teachers - Now I'm wondering how much of it should be reviewed and changed? https://peacheypublications.com/human-teachers-vs-ai-teachers-which-is-best

This article includes an AI prompt to help you develop personalised project based learning units for your students https://peacheypublications.com/unlocking-the-power-of-project-based-learning-in-elt-challenges-benefits-and-ai-solutions

This article includes 10 suggestions for using video clips to develop empathy - It includes example clips you can use with students
https://peacheypublications.com/10-activities-to-develop-students-empathy-through-visual-narrative

I'll be doing a free webinar 28th August on AI for the development of critical thinking skills. You can sign up here for free on the fobizz site. https://bit.ly/3IZq1ig