An interesting review of Formative AI - a tool for assessing and marking students homework https://fltmag.com/formative-ai/

A good balanced article https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/artificial-intelligence-the-rise-of-chatgpt-and-its-implications/

This is an AI tool for factchecking fake news. It’s a free extension for the Chrome browser. It claims to work on images as well as text https://www.debunkd.io/

This is an AI tool for factchecking fake news. It’s a free extension for the Chrome browser. It claims to work on images as well as text https://www.debunkd.io/

Speechy is an AI-driven speaking assistant, offering personalized feedback to enhance your speaking skills and boost your confidence. Mac only at present https://speechy.ai/

10 Ways To Manage Your Anxiety - Useful for teachers and students https://www.dailyinfographic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2zm8kiwgghjb1.jpg

This is a useful collection of tools to help support inclusion https://blog.tcea.org/digital-tools-dyslexic-students/

This site has a specialised collection of AI Chatbots. Might be useful for a range of specific English types. https://www.luminaries.ai/

Tutor Lily is a multilingual language tutor. On a free subscription you can exchange 15 messages each day and get to error explanations. https://tutorlily.com/

Good Morning

Well it’s the first of September, and it looks like summer here is over, although I think it may have finished at the end of June here in the UK.

As thoughts turn to lesson planning for the new academic year, here’s a FlashFriday sale that can save you hours of planning time every week.

For the next 48 hours, you can get 25% off our Teachers’ Classroom App yearly subscription.

This means you get the app and access to all of our teaching materials for just over $40 a year.
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Shrinking sea ice infographic https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Tracking-Antarctica-Sea-Ice-Loss.png

Interactive podcasting community app https://sparklip.com

This week’s FreeFriday Lesson Plan
This lesson plan is based around an image of two people talking in the street. It explores their long and complex relationship and challenges students’ perceptions of old people and their internal world.

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Leo and Laura https://bit.ly/3ZcSy86 Wonderful 4 minute documentary about how a 90-year-old couple used VR to relive some of their memories together.

A really useful collection. Most of them very short, but not all accessible without subscriptions. https://rocumentaries.com/

This is an interesting short read on how teachers can identify what's most valuable and human about their teaching https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-course-delivery-and-instruction/how-to-be-conspicuously-human-in-the-online-classroom/

A useful tool for recording audio directly into your browser https://wavacity.com/

Draftback lets you play back the revision history of any Google Doc you can edit. It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write. https://bit.ly/3Zgxo8M Useful tool to see how students created text and whether they cut and paste into their assignments.

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Here’s a site that will transcribe and produce subtitles for video or audio. Free and no sign up needed (at present) https://listenmonster.com/

I have a great FlashFriday treat for you. For the next 48 hours, you can download the complete collection of Conversation & Listening lessons for just $30. That works out at just $1 per lesson plan. That’s half the usual price of the bundle and one quarter of the price of buying the lessons individually.

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