This is a short article / tip on how to find out more about gestural literacy and nonverbal communication
https://bit.ly/4nq4sH8

Download a free copy of this teacher resource book - Cooperative Learning and the Sustainable Development Goals https://payhip.com/b/obOwr This invaluable resource is packed with a diverse collection of lesson plans, expert tips, and innovative teaching techniques

Here’s a recording of my webinar presentation for ICC. This one is on - Prompting for AI-Mediated Autonomous Teacher Development - https://youtu.be/_RKnKgaf59g?si=LxY63XZjNrwAnKlz

Some nice practical suggestions in this article - Seeing isn’t always believing: Helping children understand media manipulation https://media-and-learning.eu/subject/media-literacy/seeing-isnt-always-believing-helping-children-understand-media-manipulation/

I created an AI image for a lesson plan back in 2023, now I’m updating with an image created by AI today. Here’s the difference:

From the title it seems like this is about productivity, but it also says a lot about creativity and our future as teachers https://seths.blog/2025/07/productivity-ai-and-pushback/

This AI tool from Standford University creates Wikipedia type pages on any topic of your choosing (presumably this makes sense if there isn’t already a wikipedia page on the topic) complete with references. I gave it a try. Then downloaded it as a PDF https://storm.genie.stanford.edu/ I’m attaching the results here.

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.”