I recently had the honour of being a plenary presenter at the IATEFL Poland conference. I guess I don't get out very much these days, but what really struck me was the degree of polarisation that AI seems to be causing among teachers. Most inno...

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If you have been following me for a while you'll know that I'm a fan of AtlasObscura - I think it has some really wonderful articles and images about curious things around the world that are great to share with students to stimulate their curiosity.....

Welcome to the September 2025 edition of the Edtech & ELT Newsletter.

"ThanAverage is a small unscientific investigation into how we value and compare ourselves to each other." This is an interesting interactive website that asks a series of questions that require the user to rate how they compare themselves to what t....

If you have been following me for any length of time, you'll know that I love using visuals for learning and especially infographics. I think images and infographics are a great tool for communicating information and concepts in a simple way and so ....

Building rapport and connection will help learning (and make your lessons fun!)

"What Happened When We All Stopped" is a poem-like story written by Tom Rivett-Carnac. This animation for it, directed by Avi Ofer, was narrated for

The ocenaudio is a cross-platform audio editor, easy to use, fast and functional.

This is part of a series of AI prompts that can help to promote critical thinking. This one can help you design tasks for any text, based on Bloom's Taxonomy. You would be surprised how many times I've seen materials promoted as being inspired or mo....

Giving our students the opportunity to work on their pronunciation autonomously can be very challenging, but if we can train them, it can have huge benefits for them. Pronunciation is probably one of the least taught skills and one that can have the....

This is another great interactive site created by Neal Agarwal @nealagarwal. This is a sequence of variations on the classic trolley problem. This is the basic problem:"A runaway trolley bus is heading towards 5 people. They will be killed, but you ....

Stories of Teacher Authenticity
This book is a wonderful collection of 20 stories from teachers around the world. Each one describes how they try to be genuine in their interactions with their students and how they try to model the practices they pro...

Volume 1, Issue 9

By Nataliya Spirydovich, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YHRJ4554 We’ve all been there: students freeze up in conversation practice, or the more confident ones dominate while the quieter ones fade into the background.…

This exploratory meta-analysis synthesises current research on the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated feedback compared to traditional human-provided feedback. Drawing on 41 st...

Does AI risk creating a super powered attention vampire? OpenAI has launched a television advertising campaign. I spotted it on Channel 4’s streaming platform a week or so ago, but apparently it is…

It feels to me like young people have been dealt a really bad hand these days, and what's worse they seem to get mocked for their reactions to it. Millennials particularly seem to end up being the butt of the joke, which seems really unfair as they'....