AI in ELT

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Chunk enriched texts This time I am going to share how we can use Claude live in class to first generate short text messages and then create chunk-enriched versions in order to raise awareness of common formulaic langu…

A great way to use ChatGPT or similar tools live in the language classroom for microwriting tasks focusing on language chunks aielt.org/2025/06/28/c...

Create your own adventure If I were to choose my favourite LIVE class activity from the blog so far, this would definitely be my pick.  A ‘create your own adventure’ story is an interactive narrative where …

ChatGPT or similar Gen AI tools can instantly create interactive adventure stories for the language classroom after providing the prompt in the blog post aielt.org/2025/06/07/c...

Scaling material down If our students are struggling with online reading material, they can simply copy and paste it into a Gen.AI tool –I will be using Claude this time- and ask for a simplified, shorter version of it.…

New blog post on AI for ELT today: Scaling material down. Ideal for lower to intermediate levels if you would like to do work on tone, register and mediation. aielt.org/2025/04/07/s...

Listen and clap There are a handful of voice extensions we can install in our browser as add-ons to interact with ChatGPT through voice. These extensions can also read ChatGPT’s responses outloud. Some popular ext…

New blog post on AI in ELT: Listen and clap. Using speech feature in ChatGPT with lower levels. aielt.org/2025/04/05/l...

Recontextualization: from song to haiku Recontextualisation is a process that extracts text, signs or meaning from its original context and places it in another context. This time we are going to ask Gen. AI to turn a song into a ha…

Brand new in AI in ELT: From song to haiku. Getting creative with using ChatGPT to generate amazing reading and writing materials. aielt.org/2025/04/01/r...

Social media discourse As language teachers, we try to prepare students for the different types of writing they encounter in exams, such as essays, emails, reports, reviews, or proposals. However, we often miss out on ot…

New blog entry on AI in ELT: Social Media Discourse. Ace your posts on social media to get audience attention. aielt.org/2025/03/29/s...

Video games This is a Gen.AI-powered activity centered around the theme of video games, which will certainly appeal to teenagers. Students will read descriptions and reviews of video games and engage in discus…

New blog post: Video games. Students discuss video games and decide what video game from the descriptions given by Chat GPT would be more appealing to them. aielt.org/2025/03/24/v...

Word makeover: from old to new Today we are going to take a look at a highly productive activity students can do on their own to challenge themselves and play with the language. The idea is to type a sentence into a Gen.AI took …

New blog post today: learners work independently on word accuracy and register. aielt.org/2025/03/22/w...

Ask the expert Throughout my 34-year career as an English teacher, I have taught adult students from all walks of life: doctors, lawyers, farmers, the unemployed… Their interests have been just as varied, ranging…

Latest blog post on my blog: Ask the expert. Learners have voice conversations with ChatGPT around their favorite topics or fields of expertise. aielt.org/2025/03/10/a...

Open-ended grammar exercises Grammar exercises in coursebooks tend to be close-ended or controlled, leaving little to no room for creativity. The main reason for this is that such exercises are easier to check, whether in clas…

In my last blog post I explore ways to create open-ended grammar exercises in the classroom with Gen.AI as teaching and learning happen. aielt.org/2025/03/08/o...

Mining reading passages for collocations 1 Today we are going to ask Claude to generate collocations (clusters of two or three words that commonly appear together in spoken and written English more frequently than they would occur by chance…

New blog post on AI in ELT today. Make the most of a reading passage by engaging your students in communicative activities based on interesting collocations from the text.
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March #Edu resources - part 1🌞 Hi lovely people! Well, what can I say, "pinch and a punch for the first of the month?" I'm probably getting a bit old for that. 😉 Been a slightly tougher week for me, spent some time in the hospital ...

It's my first #Edu #Ai and #EdTech edition of March, and there are plenty of resources, insights and guidance to keep even the naughtiest of us out of mischief for hours. Dive in, digest, connect with like-minded folks, grow your #PLN and share ❤️

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Conditional sentences Today I will be adapting 3 types of activities focusing on practicing conditional sentences to involve our language assistant –ChatGPT- to, in turn, engage and provide extra motivation for our stud…

If you are looking for fresh ideas to do grammar work in different creative ways, do not miss this week`s blog post: Conditional sentences. Frills free. Photocopy free. No preparation needed. . #AIELT #grammar #edtech#AIineducationhttps://aielt.org/2025/02/26/conditional-sentences/#more-681

The Amazing Science of Bad Language, with Dr Emma Byrne | The Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2025

The Amazing Science of Bad Language, with Dr Emma Byrne | The Rosalind Franklin Lecture 2025 an @humanists.uk event. #AppliedLinguistics #LanguageEducation #TESOL
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Class debates 2 This is the second blog post on how we can get Gen.AI to create content for debates in the language classroom and then how we can use that material when we see our students later on and how the les…

New blog entry: Class debates 2. aielt.org/2025/02/20/c...

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Identity in a digital age Conflux winter residency explores what comes after AI

Identity in a digital age

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Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You can also see all my “Best” lists o…

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From reading to speaking practice With the rise of Gen.AI, language learners now have countless ways to practice speaking. They could simply hold voice conversations with the sole intent of having someone to talk to in order to use…

New blog post: ask your students to copy paste a reading passage into ChatGPT, then it can interview them about the content for great speaking practice focusing on key lexical items. #AIELT #edtechtools #edtech #teacherResources #AIineducation aielt.org/2025/02/14/f...

Horrible AI generated illustration. I would hate to see a classroom like that as much as I like to integrate AI and technology in general in teaching.

25 AI predictions for 2025 The AI Story for Education

Voice AI is transforming student assessment! Moving from traditional testing to seamless, natural evaluation processes. Are you ready for this shift? 🎓🗣️ #Education #AIEDU

AI is developing fast, but regulators must be faster | Letters Letters: Dr Tom McClelland on the consequences of AI consciousness, Michael Webb on protecting creative industries, and Prof Virginia Dignum and Prof Wendy Hall on the need for a global regulatory fra...

AI is developing fast, but regulators must be faster

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Brace for a Big Shock About Your Perception of Reality Why predicting what will happen is more important than reporting what did happen.

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How Technology Can Encourage Equity in Education - Educators Technology Education has always been the strongest pillar of personal and societal growth. It is the single most reliable method for upward socio-economic movement. The importance of education in this aspect mea...

Digital equity vs digital equality in education.

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Graded readers Today I’d like to share a couple of games inspired by graded readers that can be played live in class with no prior material preparation. All we need to do is type a prompt into ChatGPT (or c…

New blog post today: create quizzes on the go, as teaching happens, from reading material#AIELT #edtechtools #edtech #teacherResources #AIineducation
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Today's Awesome Moment in Class: in 2018 I taught 7th graders how to make a chatbot in Python as part of the ISTE-GM AI Explorations course.

Now, in 2025 a new batch are taking up the challenge with a new sense of what AI is.

The more things change...

#EduSky #ISTE #AIExplorations
#PythonChatBot