This is a really useful article with some useful AI terms and concepts that have been explained in an easy to understand way: https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/25/from-llms-to-hallucinations-heres-a-simple-guide-to-common-ai-terms/

AI Research in Education: What We Don’t Know Could Hurt Us Well worth reading. https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/ai-research-in-education-what-we-dont-know-could-hurt-us/

This is a really useful AI plugin for Google Docs. Created by a teach https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/educator_ai_assistant/336256034275

This is a really useful free image editing tool https://trimspace.online/editor

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/

This is both fascinating and a bit annoying - Just ask it for a story and wait a few seconds ! https://leoline.fun/ here’s a demo video: https://youtu.be/yGgUaTRcNCE

I’ll be doing a free webinar for the ICC later in June. Register now to get a place https://icc-languages.eu/webinars/

Really interesting ideas for using AI to develop critical thinking. https://educationfutures.com/post/how-did-we-get-from-schools-kill-creativity-to-ai-kills-creativity-in-schools/ How did we get from “schools kill creativity” to “AI kills critical thinking in schools?”

This is a simple but interesting site that allows you to compare yourself to 100 other people and it will tell you how you see your self in relation to them. There are lots of interesting questions. Great tool for getting discussion going about people's perception of themselves and comparing across the class https://thanaverage.xyz/

This is a fantastic free tool for EAP or ESP students - It will simplify any complex text/paragraph and make it easily understandable. There are a number of specialist versions for science and medicine too https://justeli5.com/

Some interesting comments from teachers in this article about how AI has impact their teaching https://www.404media.co/teachers-are-not-ok-ai-chatgpt/

Some nice free interactive books for kids here. They work a little like games and there’s even scoring: https://www.wonderstories.app/

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From skepticism to success: How AI is helping teachers transform classrooms in Peru - Very positive report as you would expect from Microsoft: https://news.microsoft.com/source/latam/features/ai/world-bank-peru-teachers-copilot/?lang=en

AI in Education Ethics Framework from the MOE in Singapore https://www.learning.moe.edu.sg/ai-in-sls/responsible-ai/ai-in-education-ethics-framework/

This is a SUPER useful tool if you are looking for examples of language or behaviour to show your students. It searches through online video and takes you straight to the examples. You can then save them. Great tool for exploiting video https://ozu.ai/

Handy tool - Enter the word count below (or paste in text) to estimate the reading time. The tool calculates both aloud and silent reading times based on slow, average, and fast reading speeds. https://wordstotime.com/

Just had a really interesting interaction with a chatbot that attempted to analyse my dream - Interesting activity for students and doesn’t require registration https://www.seventhsight.com