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.”

This site has a collection of interesting writing prompt for students - You can also find example stories that have been submitted for their competitions: https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/

This looks like a really useful plugin for saving and retrieving improving your AI prompts. It works across a range of AI chatbots https://superprompts.framer.website/

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Really nice lesson from Jamie Keddie on multimodality https://www.lessonstream.com/newsletters/lessonstream-post/posts/what-is-multimodality

How to partner with AI to engage with educational research

It was great to be one of the presenters at this event for teacher educators. https://youtu.be/gaYRg3lvQYY?si=cD95gMKYUzxcsot-

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Here’s a tool to give you feedback on your AI prompts - 10 free per-day - https://promptessor.com/

Whilst a lot of articles like this see critical thinking as a tool to apply to AI generated content, I find myself seeing AI as a tool to critically examine the world - Artificial Intelligence and Critical Thinking in Higher Education: Fostering a Transformative Learning Experience for Students https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-with-technology-articles/artificial-intelligence-and-critical-thinking-in-higher-education-fostering-a-transformative-learning-experience-for-students/

A few things I’ve been thinking about recently - 3 Controversial Ideas Around AI https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-controversial-ideas-around-ai-nik-peachey-ts3xe

Really so glad I discovered Substack - It's now my favouite soicial media platform for sharing thoughts and publishing my monthly newsletter - https://substack.com/@nikpeachey

This article has some useful AI prompts to help with research https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/i-used-chatgpts-deep-research-tool-for-academic-research-heres-what-i-learned