If you are looking for a more environmentally friendly alternative AI platdform then you could give GreenPT a try https://greenpt.ai/ All data is hosted on EU servers.

This working paper examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can support students with special education needs (SEN) to achieve their learning goals, while underlining key risks and limitations. It defines central terms and the rationale for using AI in this context and reviews a selection of research-backed AI tools that aim to empower students with SEN. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/2025/09/leveraging-artificial-intelligence-to-support-students-with-special-education-needs_ebc80fc8.html

Integrating Critical Thinking into your Syllabus with AI - A short blog post with a prompting template you can adapt for your students https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/integrating-critical-thinking-into-your-syllabus-with-ai

This is a useful explanation of why you shouldn't cite AI chatbots for factual information https://stopcitingai.com/ Good to share with students as it has a simple explanation

This site uses AI to analyse and compare cost of living and lifestyle elements between cities in two different countries - This should be an interesting activity for students to compare where they live to other places https://newlife.help/

This is a really powerful, impressive and free dictionary app that helps you learn and store vocabulary as you read and provides examples of words in context. Well worth checking out https://pickvocab.com/

Great site with a collection of short films that can be used with students https://www.shortverse.com/

Here's a useful YouTube video transcriber that has a useable free subscription https://youtubetranscripts.org/

Some really important points in this article. https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20251029072506658

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This paper explores how education can respond wisely and imaginatively to the rise of AI in general, and generative AI in particular. Its recommendations are rooted in two principles.
1. Innovation must draw on what we know about how humans learn.
2. AI’s power must not be allowed to hollow out the very skills required to navigate an AI age successfully. https://www.sagepub.com/docs/default-source/corp-comms/ai-and-the-future-of-pedagogy.pdf

Should universities be doing more to address the mental health risks of using AI? https://www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/universities-chatgpt-mental-health

Here's another free AI image generation platform. https://lexicaai.net/

Lumi is an AI reading experiment from Google's PAIR. Instead of summarizing, it adds a lightweight AI layer directly on top of arXiv papers. It highlights main points in the source text, makes references clickable, and lets you ask contextual questions about any selected text or image. https://lumi.withgoogle.com/#/

Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum - Free K–8 lessons to prepare students for life in the digital world. Useful materials from CommonSense https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-literacy

It’s still in beta testing, but this looks like an interesting app for developing speaking skills https://sentioai.app/

This is a wonderful multimedia interactive about apologising - It's based on 'The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City - https://pudding.cool/2025/03/housewives/ There are some great lessons on language of apology in here.

Download this lesson plan for free - The Climate Change Denier
In this lesson, students explore the opinions of various climate change deniers and look at a strategy for understanding them and trying to open their minds to the fact that they may be wrong.

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See all the tools and apps I’ve curated over the last 15 years at: https://www.scoop.it/topic/tools-for-learners

Regardless of the subject or age group we teach, most of us would like our students to think more critically about what they are learning and how it relates to the world around them. https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/integrating-critical-thinking-into-your-syllabus-with-ai This article shows you how to use AI to generate a small scale syllabus for integrating AI into your lessons.

This is a really useful open access journal - The ELT Classroom Research Journal focuses on classroom-based investigations by classroom teachers for the benefit of fellow English Language Teachers and their learners. https://eltcrj.com/