This looks like an impressive tool to support your studies and to help you make connections with and retainand refresh the knowledge you already have. https://www.getrecall.ai/

This is a collection of 14 free articles I've written for Oxford TEFL over the last few years https://oxfordtefl.com/blog/author/nik-peachey/

Top 10 AI tools for planning EFL lessons - Interesting to look back and see how this list has changed after only just over one year - https://oxfordtefl.com/blog/ai-tools-for-planning-efl-lessons/

This tool enables you to create a separate audio file from a video - very useful for creating video and audio split activities. https://www.videotoaudio.live/

This is a low cost VPN that's simple to use and can increase your privacy and security when online https://v3vpn.com

Interesting article about the use of AI powered speech to text tools https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/the-return-of-the-spoken-word-why-voice-ai-demands-we-rethink-oracy-in-education/ The Return of the Spoken Word: Why Voice AI Demands We Rethink Oracy in Education

This is a great site if you like general knowledge quizzes - These are autogenerated by AI https://www.dailyquiz.ai/

A really easy to use tool for creating graphs - including word clouds https://makegraph.app/

A useful audio and video transcription tool https://www.notlyai.com/

This site claims to be able to spot AI generated content with close to 100% accuracy - There is a small but useable free subscription. I'm sceptical, but it's worth a try. https://www.pangram.com/

Wondering what jobs AI will replace - You can search for specific jobs here and see an analysis of how likely AI is to take it. (Site has a lot of advertising) https://willrobotstakemyjob.com/ A nice activity for students would be to try to find the most and least likely jobs to be replaced.

Create a one page infographic using this AI tool https://venngage.com/ai-tools/one-pager-generator just type in your prompt and it will create an editable infographic

Here's a really useful curated list of SEL related videos that can be used in the classroom https://www.commonsense.org/education/youtube-curations-advisory They are neatly arranged into topic categories. #SEL #ELT

Happy Daze Happy Daze is a great source of positive news articles that you can use with your students. Most of them are related to science and technology, so they are ideal for higher levels, but they're not too long and they are vocabulary rich. https://happydaze.io/

A list of EU alternative web services to US based ones https://european-alternatives.eu/

GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?docid=b-9781350535824 You can download the book as PDF.

Finally got another Edtech & ELT newsletter together - Here's the January 26 edition https://nikpeachey.substack.com/p/edtech-and-elt-newsletter-january

AI Is Quietly Rewiring the ADDIE Model (In a Good Way https://drphilippahardman.substack.com/p/ai-is-quietly-rewriting-the-addie In this post, I show you the 3 modes of AI that actually matter in instructional design and map them across every phase of ADDIE so you know when to let AI run, and when to slow down and think.

Quick, Draw! https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/ is an interactive AI experiment by Google where users sketch simple drawings while a neural network attempts to recognise them in real time. The game demonstrates how machine learning models are trained on large datasets of human input and improves as more people play. It serves both as an educational tool for understanding AI and a playful way to explore human-AI interaction.

Exploiting Infographics https://payhip.com/b/Sypm The book contains a wide range of suggested activities for both the creation and exploitation of infographics in the classroom.
It also helps teachers with tips and advice on how to plan and create infographics and suggestions for which tools to use to produce different types of infographic.

Oboe https://oboe.com/ is an AI-powered learning platform that creates personalised, multimodal educational courses from simple prompts. Users enter a topic they want to learn about, and Oboe generates structured lessons combining text, audio, quizzes and games tailored to that subject. The goal is to make learning flexible, engaging, and custom-built around your interests.