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Continue reading →: Please allow me to introduce myself…
Welcome to the blog! I am an English teacher with 25 years experience teaching in the UK, South East Asia and the Middle East. I have recently started to leverage the power of AI in the classroom and in my planning and I’m inviting you to join me on the…
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Continue reading →: A Great Big THANK YOU!I’ve had a LinkedIn and Facebook account for a while, but my professional presence in the persona of The AI English Teacher has only really come about since November of 2023. The inspiration for this has to be placed firmly at the feet of the community of educators that are…
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Continue reading →: AI Bits Episode 1 – AI Won’t Transform Education…I’ve been down the AI rabbit hole for a while now and I’ve had some thoughts… Welcome to AI Bits – these will be short posts around some of the more philosophical, pedagogical and conceptual aspects of AI. My aim here is to look at single issues and pose questions…
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Continue reading →: AI Bytes Episode 7 – Moving at a Brisk PaceBrisk AI is a great tool, and the Chrome extension it offers makes it fairly ubiquitous. Brisk was one of the first tools I looked at in the ‘One Good Thing’ series back in November of last year (I know – it’s ridiculous that November 2023 seems so long ago…
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Continue reading →: The Opposing Counsel – AI AdvocatesOne of my favourite uses of AI is Chatbots that can challenge and develop a student’s thinking, so when an opportunity to do this in a lesson came up, I couldn’t resist! I’m currently teaching rhetorical writing in a slightly different way thanks to AI. I’m linking a unit on…
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Continue reading →: Why AI? That is the Question.As a Geordie at heart I couldn’t resist the phrase ‘Why AI’ (for those unfamiliar with Geordie vernacular the phrase ‘why aye’ is a traditional affirmative and general intensifier widely used in the North East of England), but as a teacher and AI enthusiast leading training in the field it…
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Continue reading →: AI Bytes Episode 7 – Summarizing video just got easier.(excuse the US spelling – it’s the website not me – I’m still very British!) Summarize.ing – a powerful YouTube summary tool with the unique addition of mindmaps – perfect for educational use (Please note I have nothing against US spellings – they mostly make more sense than the British…
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Continue reading →: AI Bytes Episode 6 – Another old favourite gets an AI boost!Socrative is a well known platform that has been a staple for a while – it now has AI integration to create resources. Socrative has been around for a fair while – I remember playing around with early versions of it as we were looking at increasingly integrating EdTech as…
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Continue reading →: AI Bytes Episode 5 – Super Combos!Super Combos can power-up your workflow! The question is often asked ‘which is the best AI tool for…’, however the answer is often not one tool, but designing a workflow with a series of tools that can be used in conjunction. One workflow in particular that I have found useful…
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Continue reading →: The Assessment System is Broken and we don’t seem to want to fix itOur current assessment system is very much a case of shoving every peg through a round hole, regardless of the shape – do advances in technology, specifically the rise of AI offer a way to reform the system? I was listening to Sunday’s Westminster Hour a couple of weeks back…
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Continue reading →: Have Systems of Mass Education run their Course?Modern Karate, like modern education, is a systematised way of transmitting knowledge – but is it effective? Mass education is one of the key drivers of the increase in living standards seen in the industrialised world, but with these standards falling and even slipping backwards a question has to be…
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As a practitioner of over 25 years experience I aim to help teachers find useful resources and create a space for a constructive dialogue about AI, EdTech and the future of education.
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