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The Cosmic Stage https://thecosmicstage.com/ When you enter your birthdate, The Cosmic Stage maps your lifetime against the grand clockwork of the solar system. The sheer scale of time and distance measured against a single human life. The numbers remind you how brief we are against the deep time of the universe, and yet how remarkable it is that you are here at all. You are impossibly small and absolutely extraordinary, both at once.
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Wordy is an online language-learning platform that helps users improve vocabulary and comprehension by learning through movies, TV shows, and video clips. It offers interactive subtitles, context-based vocabulary learning with smart flashcards and spaced repetition, and personalized learning paths for more than 20 languages. Users can click on words in authentic scenes to see translations, save them to their word lists, and practise pronunciation and usage with tailored exercises. The service is designed to make language learning engaging and natural by using real entertainment content. https://wordy.info/
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This is a great site for generating a discussion on social medi - online advertising and the value of your attention - Just add some simple details and you'll get a break down of what has been paid for your attention https://attentionworth.com/ could lead to some interesting discussion, such as who paid and what did they get for it? How could you have spent your time differently? Was it worth it to you?
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Very useful PDF download - Includes research findings from 12 studies - The Portrait of a Teacher in the Age of AI - How will the role of a teacher evolve in a world transformed by AI?
https://www.ed3global.org/portraitofateacher
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This is a scarily impressive tool for rapidly developing interactive online, mobile friendly courses. https://quikauthor.io/ I create a credible course without providing any base content in about 10 -15 minutes!!
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This is an interesting AI platform that generates multimodal courses for you as you work through the content. It even seems to have revision built in. It will also generate the type of content (images, infographics etc) that will suit the content at each stage. https://smartlearnapp.com/?ref=DMWEuaMfxFRXWTmfUE4Ws6b2xll2 There's a good video explainer on the home page.
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Mindspase is a visual, AI-powered knowledge base that automatically organizes everything you save, articles, images, videos, music, quotes, PDFs, with zero folders or manual tagging. https://mindspase.com
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New March 2026 report from Common Sense Media - Cognitive and Safety risks of AI highlight the need to move beyond trying to catch the use of AI to the intentional teaching of AI Literacy in K-12 https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/commonsensemedia_generationai.pdf
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Develop your public speaking skills with this AI powered speaking course. There's a 14 day free trial. It looks like an interestng concept for teachers and learners: https://orateur.app/
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My curated collection of digital tools from the last 16 years https://www.scoop.it/topic/tools-for-learners Wow! Time really flies!
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