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onto Tools for Teachers & Learners May 20, 2011 4:26 AM
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This groundbreaking book flips the script, showing how AI, when used wisely, can enhance rather than replace our students' thinking. Written by award-winning teacher trainer Nik Peachey, Developing Critical Thinking Skills With AI is your complete task-based guide to using AI tools like ChatGPT to cultivate logic, curiosity, and independent thought in your classroom.
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Docubix is a RAG platform to upload documents, create knowledge bases, and ship AI chat assistants with cited answers. Free plan available.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Docubix looks like an interesting way to create your own knowledge base. Would be really useful for anyone doing/writing research https://www.docubix.com/ on the free plan you can create your own research assistant or create one for your class.
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readpdfaloud
Read PDF aloud for free with natural AI voices! Convert any PDF, including scanned files via OCR, into natural speech. Supports 142+ languages.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This free PDF voice reader can help to make your materials more accessible or can just make reading more multimodal https://readpdfaloud.com/
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What if silence could become one of your most powerful teaching tools? In today's world of constant noise, notifications, and endless communication, silence is often misunderstood. Yet silence can be a space for reflection. A source of creativity. A pathway to deeper learning.
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.
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Available now a a free download.
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rubricmark
Batch-grade essays and handwritten worksheets with quote-anchored rubric feedback — you sign off every score before LMS export. Moderation audit trail, Google Classroom sync, and one-click Test Bank remediation on the same rubric you use in Build. Free to start.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This looks interesting - Build rubrics by voice, batch-mark essays and worksheets with quote-anchored feedback, sync with Google Classroom, and assign Test Bank practice when the class misses a skill. You sign off on every score. https://rubricmark.com/
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We’re dedicated to entertaining, educating, and sparking curiosity about the world around us – and beyond.
Nik Peachey's insight:
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/
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tvexplorer
Don't just watch TV. Explore over 10,000 free channels from around the world.
Nik Peachey's insight:
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.
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Nik Peachey's insight:
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.
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lingaly
A system that detects your weaknesses, trains you where it matters most, and measures your readiness with real exam-format exercises. Start free.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This could be useful for exam focused classes.
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tinyworld
This is a really nice site where learners can build their own tiny worlds - Nice activity for developing vocabulary and descriptions + comparing https://tinyworld.build/
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panelq
PanelQ is the best Q&A platform for live panels. Collect audience questions via QR code, moderate them instantly, and display them on stage. No app download required.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a nice tool for capturing audience questions during presentations at conferences or during classroom lectures or panel discussions. https://panelq.com/
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Well once again, trying to make a living got in the way of sharing information, so apologies for the long delay since the last of these newsletters. Hopefully I can get back on track soon and start producing at least one each month. Anyway, excuses aside, there are some really great tools and interesting articles (mainly about AI of course) in this edition.
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innogath
Deep research with sources, auto diagrams & branching pages, and a project notebook for writing and publishing.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Ask a question and get a structured report with clickable citations, not a wall of text. Every finding can branch into a sub-topic, and the tool auto-draws a knowledge map so you can see how your research fits together. https://innogath.com/ The site has a useable free subscription
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Free AI Course Creator which helps you build your online course in minutes. Automate assessment, course authoring and convert files to eLearning. Click to try Coursebox AI, the best AI course generator.
Nik Peachey's insight:
CourseBox is another AI course generation tool. These are looking increasingly impressive. This one includes video tutor and video generation. You can create 3 short courses for free. https://www.coursebox.ai/
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discode
It shows you which model answered and why, redacts your personal data on-device before anything leaves, checks the hard answers across multiple models, and estimates the CO₂, water and energy footprint of every request. Built in Vienna 🇦🇹. Your AI, your rhythm.
Nik Peachey's insight:
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!?
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captioner
Captioner is an AI subtitle generator and editor for your videos. Add accurate subtitles to your videos and save hours of work. Upload your videos and edit right on your browser.
Nik Peachey's insight:
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.
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teacherforge
Generate ESL and EFL worksheets and exams with AI. Grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, and listening — 21+ question types, A1 to C2, with answer keys. Free to start.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is an AI worksheet designer made specifically for language teachers.
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describeimage
Describe images and videos with AI. Generate descriptions, alt text, OCR, SEO copy, captions, prompts, and scene notes for content, ecommerce, accessibility, and research.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is useful tool if you want to make learning materials fully accessible https://describeimage.io/ There's a free subscription for light use.
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Search, browse, and use AI privately, keeping your information to yourself and away from hackers, scammers, and privacy-invasive companies. Unlike others, all our AI features are optional.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Here's a good option if you want a search engine that DOES NOT use AI https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
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kazkar
Create AI-powered personalised stories for kids aged 3-12 with magical heroes, adventures, bedtime tales and educational content.
Nik Peachey's insight:
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/
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blog2video
Turn blog posts, articles, PDFs, and documents into narrated videos with templates, voiceover, scene editing, and cross-channel distribution workflows.
Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a really quick way to turn content into video with a reasonable quality audio narrator.
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Nik Peachey's insight:
This is a tool for generating audio courses on any topic. It works on Android or iOS so you can listen to your course on your mobile phone https://sunapp.ai/
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surveva
At Surveva, we create a collaborative space driven by polls, interactions, and analytics. Our approach encourages learning, sparks thoughtful dialogue, and inspires questions that challenge norms, offering users a richer, more enlightening experience.
Nik Peachey's insight:
Surveva is a community-driven polling platform where you vote on 10 strangers' questions and receive 10 real votes on yours.
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This site enables you to create a wide range of different interactive multimodal worksheets. There is a limited free subscription then a pay as you go option which is reasonably priced. https://www.aisheets.study/
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minddory
MindDory is the best language learning flashcard app with spaced repetition. AI-powered flashcards, Anki alternative for iOS. Vocabulary app that makes words stick. Free to try.
Nik Peachey's insight:
MindDory wraps your target vocabulary in short AI-generated stories, so your brain encodes words with context attached. https://minddory.com/ It looks like it's only available for iPhone at present.
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