Fifty Years of Topic Development, Thematic Combination, and AI’s Evolving Reach in Computers & Education https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360131526001958?via%3Dihub - This is a long read but you can find a useful summary at: https://ammaramerhbi.substack.com/p/the-50-year-overnight-ai-revolution

Reach the Top 1% of Your Field (Deliberate Practice) https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2026/09/30/deliberate-practice/ This sounds a bit competitive but there are some valuable insights here about practice which definitely apply to language learning.

Comedy wildlife photos - get your learners to choose their favourite one https://www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/finalists/2026_finalists.php

This is a great lesson plan for leading up to Halloween - https://payhip.com/b/I4vL A Ghost Story uses a beautifully crafted short film to draw students into an intriguing and emotional narrative. As they explore the story, students develop their speaking, listening, writing and critical-thinking skills while practising the language of deduction, speculation and storytelling.

Here's another multilingual teaching tip - This one is using graphic organisers. (Images created with AI)

Edtech & ELT Newsletter - Special Edition
Welcome to this special edition of the Edtech & ELT Newsletter.
https://nikpeachey.substack.com/p/edtech-and-elt-newsletter-special?r=ojb9d&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true LingoLesson - Online Language Course Development Platform: Review

I'll be doing a free webinar on Exploring multimodality in learning on October 29th https://app.fobizz.com/fortbildungen/3849-exploring-multimodality-in-learning come along and find out more.

OpenScreen is a free screen recorder that does a lot of the heavy lifting (video editing for you). It stores the videos on your hard drive and you can upload them where ever you want them. Good free alternative to Loom https://getopenscreen.com/

Fish AI enable you to create audio voice and control the emotions they express through tagging. You can get 7 minutes of audio each month for free https://fish.audio/ great for short narrative or dialogues

The October 2026 edition of my free Edtech & ELT newsletter is now available https://nikpeachey.substack.com/p/edtech-and-elt-newsletter-october check out the links to useful apps, tools, articles and teaching resources

pdf2epub is a free tool for converting a PDF to epub format ready for publication. https://epub.ftak.net/

What My Son Is Learning From Artificial Intelligence - A father reflects on how AI may be changing our children's attitudes toward uncertainty, and what that means for their lives and relationships. https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_my_son_is_learning_from_artificial_intelligence

This is an interesting scrolling infographic of the history of Google https://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/search/howsearchworks/our-history/ Has information about how search works too.

This would make a nice warmer discussion https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/oculus-tower Why did it close? Would you like to visit it? etc.

Digital Literacy & Well-Being Curriculum
Free K–12 lessons to prepare students for life, online and off https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-literacy