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/

Interesting article on the AI divide (between those trained and those untrained) https://societyandai.org/perspectives/the-emerging-ai-divide-in-higher-education/

This is interesting feedback on the research (or lack of it) in how AI is used in education I Read 25 Studies on AI in Education. Here’s What Teachers Are Actually Doing. https://mikekentz.substack.com/p/i-read-25-studies-on-ai-in-education

Sign up here to get access to the recording of my webinar on Multilingual Classrooms https://app.fobizz.com/fortbildungen/3854-multilingual-classrooms-building-on-strengths-and-supporting-challenges?__preload=1

An interesting report from Pearson - From Engagement to Impact Defining quality in immersive learning https://www.pearson.com/content/dam/global-store/global/resources/efficacy/From-Engagement-to-Impact-Research-Report-Digital.pdf

This is a useful tool for quickly turning quotes into graphics. https://www.serif.sh/

My free Edtech and ELT Newsletter for July 2026 is now available
https://open.substack.com/pub/nikpeachey/p/edtech-and-elt-newsletter-july-2026

These seem to be harder to find these days - Anyway - one the rage- here's a word cloud creator https://wordbulb.com/word-cloud-generator and some ideas for how to use them https://peacheypublications.com/word-clouds-in-elt

Multilingual Classrooms: Building on Strengths and Supporting Challenges - You can see the recording of my presentation here:
https://app.fobizz.com/fortbildungen/3854-multilingual-classrooms-building-on-strengths-and-supporting-challenges/access_info

Here's one for the eco-conscious AI user - This service will route your AI prompts through the most eco-friendly AI models https://discode.ai/ You can get started for free, but it's not a totally free service so you'll need to decide how much you care about the environment!?

21 observations from people watching - This is a really interesting read and nice to share with learners - Get them to think about how they would be perceived https://skincontact.substack.com/p/21-observations-from-people-watching

Uncovered - This is a nice activity for learners https://uncovered.ink/ They see the first page of a book and decide whether they want to read more. Get learners to scroll through three pages ten decide which one the would prefer to read and click on reveal to see the book. Good source of reading and discussion