This is a great round up of what’s going on with AI in education across the various platforms https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/this-academic-year-the-ai-education-landscape-has-shifted-again/

This is quite an amazing site that will build media rich, interactive online courses and personalise them to your requirements based on a short interview process https://unfold.unlikefraction.com/ I built one on Teaching Kids Online and was impressed at the quality of the content.

This is a nice sketchplanation of the 3 bricklayers story https://sketchplanations.com/the-three-bricklayers it explains the difference between, task, goal and vision - our students need to find their vision

This is a great site that helps you find walking/hike/biking trails. It suggests them based on search or location. Students can explore the options together then choose a walk - They can write a fictional account of the walk https://www.alltrails.com/

Here’s a nice lesson on helping students to identify deep fake videos https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-students-identify-fake-videos

Check out this free online conference coming up soon (12th -14th Dec) it's particularly aimed at teachers who want to develop their own online business. https://teflhorizons.com/conference lots of people will be sharing their experience s, so what do you have to loose?

Download a free copy of this lesson plan - Superheroes and Diversity - before 10th December. Click on 'Buy Now' then add the coupon code FREEFRIDAY before you pay https://payhip.com/b/NTj6u

Some really interesting reading in this - The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2025 https://www.edutopia.org/visual-essay/the-10-most-significant-education-studies-of-2025/ - Though no criteria for choosing these as the top 10.

My latest blog post - Cognitive dissonance and the most important critical thinking question ever https://payhip.com/peacheypublications/blog/news/cognitive-dissonance-and-the-most-important-critical-thinking-question-ever

Interesting video to discuss with students - would they prefer this AI pet to a real pet? - Pros and cons?? https://youtu.be/nrLwgIj_OSo?si=7cCi0iHr487Rhea4

This looks interesting - Could it be a DuoLingo killer? You can get it for free if you can’t afford it, but I’m not sure how you prove that or what the criteria are - https://language-protagonized.com/

This is a really useful study tool for exploring documents and generating quizzes and flashcards from them. https://www.turbo.ai/

This is an interesting AI platform for group learning - It creates a password protected group chatroom where students and teachers can interact together but the AI chatbot can be called on to add insights, summaries and additional information. It acts as a kind of moderator for the group chat https://www.yochatgpt.io/ If you try it, watch the explainer video first.

This is an interview I did with Karolina Kasperska, Head of English and Schools Education in Poland after my IATEFL Poland plenary https://youtu.be/K2zJIGV4iu0?si=11B-8DlR3wmu2teX

My plenary talk on multimodality from 38th APPI Conference 2025 - Multimodality in English Language Teaching and Learning https://youtu.be/Ky_tP7FM4fw?si=tymJpJzWzFCyfuuR

A podcast interview with Sugata Mitra https://happiness.info/151-sugata-mitra/

Two Truths & AI is an interactive digital literacy game for grades K–12 that teaches students to identify AI-generated content and develop critical media literacy skills. Through an engaging, 60-second challenge, students try to distinguish between real and AI-generated movie posters. https://www.commonsense.org/two-truths-and-ai

Create up to 7 songs and music videos for free! https://mozartai.com/ This might be a nice tool for projects with students and as the subject of discussion.

AI Quests is a game-based learning experience designed to teach middle school students (ages 11-14) about AI. Through a series of interactive, code-free quests, students will learn what it takes to responsibly build AI applications that address real-world societal challenges. https://research.google/ai-quests/intl/en_gb

Interesting article - The AI Content Explosion: What Your Learners Actually Think (And Why It Matters) https://drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/the-ai-content-explosion-what-your

Yes, You Can Stop Students from Using ChatGPT—But Should You? https://screensandsanity.substack.com/p/yes-you-can-stop-students-from-using Interesting article about how we should be using AI