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Learn to collect far more data and information about a remote English lesson than it is about most physical classroom lessons with this lesson tips for teachers

When I hear instructors talk about “banning AI,” I often think about the missed opportunity. Instead of building environments where students can engage in honest, critical conversations about how these tools shape our work, we reduce everything to a cat-and-mouse game. Teachers invent restrictions, students invent workarounds. Nobody learns much except how to evade the system.

If there’s a single shift the AI tutor brings to lifelong learning, it’s this: learning becomes less about consuming content and more about entering a dialogue. You ask, it responds. You try, it observes. You reflect, it reframes.

Learning another language could be a total game-changer for your cognitive health.

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AI arrives in societies already marked by inequality. In Africa and across the Global South, access to reliable internet, computing power and digital literacy is profoundly uneven. The danger is that AI will not only mirror these inequalities, but will magnify them. If we are not vigilant, the algorithm will become the new frontier of exclusion.

Does AI risk creating a super powered attention vampire? OpenAI has launched a television advertising campaign. I spotted it on Channel 4’s streaming platform a week or so ago, but apparently it is on live terrestrial TV too. The advert is deliberately wholesome: a brother and sister planning a trip together, with helpful captions

This is part of a series of AI prompts that can help to promote critical thinking. This one can help you design tasks for any text, based on Bloom's Taxonomy.

First, designing a better classroom means redesigning the work we ask students to do. It requires a deliberate shift away from “disposable assignments” (essays written for an audience of one and then promptly forgotten) and toward “renewable” projects that have a life beyond the grade.

Learn how to build a supportive, engaging classroom community where students feel confident, connected, and excited to learn together.

What has September to November 2025 taught us about the future of learning? Since September 2025, the AI landscape in education has transformed at a pace that would make your head spin - it certainly has mine. I've been tracking these developments across LinkedIn posts, classroom experiments, and late-night deep dives into model capabilities (because…

This has been designed to be used as a kind of emotional journal, so you can click on the one you are feeling and write a sentence or two about it and why you are feeling that way.

Regardless of the subject or age group we teach, most of us would like our students to think more critically about what they are learning and how it relates to the world around them.

Why Students Need Clarity, Not Chaos. - The future of teaching with AI doesn’t require omniscience. It requires courage to draw lines, explain why they matter, and revise them together when the world shifts again.

There is a reason why Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed he would only be able to teach one other person in his lifetime, and at a stretch. Now some think AI puts teaching jobs at risk but I don’t think this is right for three reasons.

This exploratory meta-analysis synthesises current research on the effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated feedback compared to traditional human-provided feedback. Drawing on 41 studies involving a total of 4813 students, the findings reveal no statistically significant differences in learning performance between students who received AI-generated feedback and those who received human-provided feedback. The pooled effect size was small and statistically insignificant (Hedge’s g = 0.25, CI [−0.11; 0.60]), indicating that AI feedback is potentially as effective as human feedback. 

By Nataliya Spirydovich, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.69732/YHRJ4554 We’ve all been there: students freeze up in conversation practice, or the more confident ones dominate while the quieter ones fade into the background. Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots can shift that