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Quick links to useful resources for teaching and learning with educational technology
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This is a collection of over 100 short videos by David Attenborough by the team at TKSST https://thekidshouldseethis.com/?s=%22david+attenborough All worth showing to your students.
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Pano https://www.pano.news/ is a news aggregator that compares how different sources cover the same story. It pulls in coverage and perspectives from across the political spectrum. The majority of the news is US focused but there is a world news setting. Great for finding left vs Right reports of the same story and identifying bias.
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AI and Scaffolded Writing Feedback

In this issue of InterCom they explore how scaffolded feedback from AI can support learning without taking over the process. With the right framing, AI can help learners slow down, notice patterns, and make intentional choices in their writing—shifting the focus from simply fixing mistakes to sparking reflection, ownership, and growth. https://mailchi.mp/uoregon.edu/v16_i1
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Free download from https://payhip.com/peacheypublications - Whether you’re an English language teacher seeking meaningful content or an educator integrating sustainability into your curriculum, English through Environmental Education provides the tools and inspiration needed to teach English with purpose.
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This is a really useful PDF to download for anyone involved in teacher education and development https://www.britishcouncil.org/research-insight/exploring-principles-effective-continuing-professional-development-teachers-low-and Exploring principles of effective continuing professional development for teachers in low-and-middle-income countries
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Great source of images memes and infographics https://imgur.com/
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This is a quick and easy tool to use to create text based activities. It can shuffle words, sentences or paragraphs and then students can try to sort them into the correct order: https://www.ufreetools.com/en/tool/word-shuffler - Lots of other free tools from https://www.ufreetools.com/
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This is an interesting short article - Half of young people want to grow up in a world without internet. https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/insights-and-media/media-centre/press-releases/2025/may/half-of-young-people-want-to-grow-up-in-a-world-without-internet/ New research, published by BSI, shows that half (47%) of young people aged 16 to 21 would prefer to be young in a world without the internet.
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This is an interesting perspective “While people who have spent years cultivating their writing skills might bemoan the arrival of AI-assisted writing, there is also a much more optimistic way to view these changes. Until now, the ability to write well was inherently elitist. People fortunate enough to have the time and financial capacity to pursue higher education were better positioned to produce excellent writing.” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/ai-has-rendered-traditional-writing-skills-obsolete-education-needs-to-adapt/
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