This is a really fascinating site that allows you to browse through and explore areas of knowledge by generating infographic type images in your browser https://www.sketchapedia.com Really great for learers who are more visual.

Don’t Blame the Oblong - This is a good balanced argument about the dangers of phones and social media and what we should be doing as teachers https://theaienglishteacher.wordpress.com/2026/05/27/dont-blame-the-oblong/

This is an interesting site that shows global stats from around the world in real time, so you can see for example how quickly the world population is growing https://www.worldometers.info/

This infographic has 10 common thinking errors - Get students to identify the one they think they most commonly do https://i.pinimg.com/1200x/e4/a3/c9/e4a3c9143eaab7bd9b682fb8eb1edc62.jpg

Check out my latest Edtech & ELT newsletter. With links to useful apps, articles and reports https://open.substack.com/pub/nikpeachey/p/edtech-and-elt-newsletter-may-2026

Llamaroo is an AI lesson planning platform for YL teachers that generates gamified, activities in minutes. Use Llamaroo to quickly build interactive lessons for any topic. The platform follows strict privacy practices to avoid tracking children or exposing them to an AI model. https://llamaroo.com/

This is an app for quickly creating children's stories, jokes and songs. There are some examples to listen to and read on the site https://kazkar.com/

Nice video for story telling - things that happened to you in lifts, or discussion using conditionals - what would you do? what would you have done https://youtu.be/Q-TQQE1y68c?si=9-MBIKoP4PHufPow

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This is a great site that lets learners explore open access TV from around the world. https://tvexplorer.live/ Great for developing language skills and exploring different pronunciations from different regions.

The June 2026 edition of Media & Learning has some really interesting articles. You can access it here: https://media-and-learning.eu/newsletter/june-2026/

Nice article and much of what they say resonates with me and my own daughter. 5 Ways Traditional School Is Actively Failing Your Kid https://futureofeducation.substack.com/p/5-ways-traditional-school-is-actively

This is a nice infographic explaining the Diderot effect - It would work well as the basis for a chain story warmer A: "We bought a new sofa and it made the rug look bad" B:So we bought a new rug and it made ... etc. https://podcast.sketchplanations.com/the-diderot-effect/

PolyChat - Here's another language learning app to help improve learners' speaking https://www.polychatapp.com/

This is a nice idea - get students to capture 5 seconds of video each day and bring the clips to class and talk about them https://snappit.co/

This is a great YouTube playlist called '2 Truths and AI' it has a series of videos that ask you to guess which of the 3 is AI generated. This is followed by an explanation of how to spot the AI https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVbvbO4g-cK7HGXacIE0iqkkuyQZCV8pq Great for AI literacy.

Here's a good option if you want a search engine that DOES NOT use AI https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

Help students uncover their misconceptions about the world using the Gapminder https://upgrader.gapminder.org/ this is a quiz site that asks fact-based questions about the world, from poverty to population to climate, and shows which of the most common misconceptions you wrong.

16 years of curated Tools for Teachers and Learners https://www.scoop.it/topic/tools-for-learners Browse through or use the filter to search.

You can download this Global Safeguarding Starter Kit from the British Council by registering here: https://internationalschools.britishcouncil.org/safeguarding-toolkit-for-schools