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

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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'....

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I’m participating in a cooperative learning project and had to compile a list of common cooperative strategies that are especially useful in an EFL context. I thought I’d share this here as well, i…

Are you worried about the way that advertising is influencing our students? Our students are being targeted by advertising from an increasingly young age, especially through social media. You may well feel this is harmless and perhaps it is, but giv....

Why Students Need Clarity, Not Chaos

Back in July 2025 I was part of a webinar that was organised by the British Council on the topic of 'How to partner with AI to engage with educational research' - You can watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/gaYRg3lvQYY?si=c__j-n...

This is an activity that went down well at a recent workshop I lead. It's simple activity that helps your students get used to creating AI generated images using a free AI image generator. There are a few different image generations sites you c...

By Akiko Meguro and Todd Bryant, Dickinson College DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/CZNP1530 Introduction One of the challenges facing language teachers is creating engaging out-of-class assignments that support the communicative goals of the current lesson…