This is a great website that has a lot of fascinating educational science content - lots of short video clips. This is great for discussion viewing, reading and listening activities - There are a lot of adds on the site so best to choose a specific video or article for your learners https://www.iflscience.com/

Fact Mag is a website and magazine dedicated to electronic arts in different forms. Has some interesting video clips about various projects. Great for classroom discussion and warmers https://www.factmag.com/

I know that talking to actual people seems to be going out of fashion, but here's a platform that can help connect people for language exchange and learning https://outrightalk.com/ OutrighTalk

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On Silence & Solitude: Creative Activities for the English Classroom https://payhip.com/b/UTXRo This book is now available for free download - On Silence & Solitude brings together leading educators, researchers, poets, and teacher trainers from around the world to explore how silence, solitude, and thoughtful reflection can enrich language learning and transform classroom experiences.

What TikTok Is Teaching Future Teachers (That We Aren’t) https://www.edsurge.com/news/what-tiktok-is-teaching-future-teachers-that-we-arent

Ethnologue: Languages of the World is the world’s most comprehensive database on the world’s living languages. https://www.ethnologue.com/ lots of interesting articles at: https://www.ethnologue.com/insights/

Free download - Global Englishes: Research agendas and tasks in English as a lingua franca https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-teaching/article/global-englishes-research-agendas-and-tasks-in-english-as-a-lingua-franca/9D8CABD3D9DEFBC5B45AB7D66237052A

FREE - Comic Book Image Flashcards https://payhip.com/b/fxilL This is a collection of 88 AI generated comic book style images. The images show a diverse range of characters of different ages ethnicities and genders. You can use these images for generating stories and prompting your students' imagination, or build them into any activities or materials you are designing.

Here's a link to the panel discussion on AI I did with Isil Boy and Jamie Keddie on Saturday 16th May https://youtu.be/cSZld83zEdM?si=oY1JY8IfcM6VbhI5

The latest edition of The Teacher Training Journal is available now at https://pilgrimsttj.com/

https://ailiteracyframework.org/ This framework is designed for teachers, education leaders, education policymakers, learning designers, and parents. It outlines competences and learning scenarios to inform learning materials, standards, and systemwide initiatives for primary and secondary education settings.

This site is a ready made AI literacy lesson - the site shows images text and videos and you have to guess whether they are AI human or mixed https://is-it.ai/ Great for developing learners AI literacies, how to detect AI and getting them discussing the issues.

I just tried this and was very impressed - Aristotle is an AI tutor that learns how each child thinks and teaches in the way they learn best. It guides students through dialogue, uncovers misconceptions, and uses expert-level error handling to build real understanding. https://www.heyaristotle.com/

Free - Captioner lets you add accurate subtitles to videos right in your browser. Upload a file, auto-transcribe and edit precise timestamps. You can translate captions into 98+ languages, export SRT, VTT, or SBV files https://captioner.io/en You can do up to 3 videos per day for free - great if you are producing video based materials.

Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning, teaching and research materials in any format and medium that reside in the public domain or are under copyright that have been released under an open license, that permit no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others. https://www.unesco.org/en/open-educational-resources

OneLook is a great online dictionary where you can find a host of information about words - There are also some nice word games to play https://onelook.com/

Find out more about Multimodal Literacy with this interactive infographic: https://view.genially.com/6807be9c981a75ebf54d4d19

This might be interesting for classroom discussion - You can see live how quickly Elon Musk's wealth grows and what he can buy with it https://whatselonworth.com/#worth

This free PDF voice reader can help to make your materials more accessible or can just make reading more multimodal https://readpdfaloud.com/

This is a great site if you or your students like emoji's. They can download lots of different ones, create their own and even play emoji games https://emojipedia.org/