AI Unpacked: Smart and Practical Tools for Hallfield Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of delivering an INSET training programme at Hallfield School, titled "AI Unpacked: Smart and Practical Tools for Hallfield". The session was designed to offer a ...

Here is a summary of the whole day INSET I delivered yesterday in Edgbaston 'AI Unpacked: Smart and Practical Tools for Hallfield' www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-unp...

What a Wonderful Week in Madrid: Designing, Testing and Reflecting on AI in the Classroom Together What a week it’s been in Madrid and what an absolute privilege to lead my LFEE Europe course 'Supercharge Your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI'. On the first day, to help everyone get to know each other,...

Here is a summary of how I spent six intensive days in Madrid this week with an amazing group of educators. I LOVED every minute! www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-w...

Better Clues, Better Learning: Using Professional Dialogue to Improve Task Design For the beginning of day 4 of my LFEE course Supercharge your teaching with ChatGPT and AI, we followed our usual routine of posting reflections in the course Padlet about the previous day’s learning....

Here is a summary of how reflecting with teachers on a Madrid treasure hunt showed how AI-generated location clues could be improved together by adding more observational detail to make them more engaging and challenging. www.linkedin.com/pulse/better...

Human First, AI Second? Exploring Challenge and Creativity with Suno Each morning on the LFEE Europe ‘Supercharge Your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI’, we’ve been starting the day with a short activity designed to get everyone thinking before the main session begins. Tod...

Here is a summary of a reflective starter activity from day 3 of my LFEE course comparing teacher-written song lyrics with AI-generated versions and exploring cognitive offloading, desirable difficulty and how challenge helps make learning more memorable. www.linkedin.com/pulse/human-...

Designing a Place-Based Treasure Hunt with AI in Madrid For day 2 of my LFEE Europe 'Supercharge Your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI' in Madrid, I worked with participants on designing a place-based treasure hunt using AI which they will trial together in th...

Here is a summary of how participants on my LFEE Europe 'Supercharge Your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI' in Madrid designed, fact-checked and prepared their own AI-supported city treasure hunts ready to trial together across the city tomorrow. www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...

Marking the Prado Painting Quest: Honest Lessons Learned with the Help of AI | Joe Dale Here is a summary of what I learned today while marking my Prado Painting Quest, including how multilingual short answers, unexpected corrections to my AI answer key and the use of NotebookLM helped m...

Here is a summary of what I learned today while marking my Prado Painting Quest www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The Prado Painting Quest: Creating an AI-Guided Museum Treasure Hunt with Talking Avatars As part of my preparation for day 1 of the Madrid course this week for LFEE, I was given the challenge to come up with an AI generated activity which could be run at the Prado Museum. Always up for a ...

Here is a summary of how I designed the 'Prado Painting Quest', an AI-guided museum treasure hunt using talking avatar clues and a Google Form that teachers can easily adapt for their own locations, created for participants on this week’s LFEE Europe course in Madrid www.linkedin.com/pulse/prado-...

Productive Struggle vs AI Slop: Designing Inclusive Learning at the CAFI Congress Today, I had the absolute honour of speaking at the CAFI Congress in Santiago de Compostela, an event titled "Intelixencia artificial e educación: da comprensión técnica ao impacto humano". It was an ...

Here is a summary of my session at the CAFI Congress in Santiago de Compostela today, where I demonstrated how educators can move beyond "AI slop" by using artificial intelligence as a cognitive sparring partner to design inclusive, multimodal learning experiences. www.linkedin.com/pulse/produc...

Thanks. I've created 9 talking avatars using Adobe Express and imported TTS from Luvvoice then published each video as unlisted on my YT channel. Next I embedded each video into a Google Form with sections for each clue and short answer responses. The first video is an intro to the quest.

Four courses starting this weekend in Spain and Ireland - LFEE This week-end sees the start of four of our courses: English Language and Culture Development in Dublin & Galway, Supercharge Your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI in Madrid and Inclusion, Health & Wellbeing in Education in Garnada. Our teams will be welcoming Educators from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain – wishing you all […]

Can't wait to work with educators from around Europe in Madrid with the LFEE Europe course Supercharge your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI including AI generated treasure hunts and a Prado Picture Quest with AI talking avatars for the clues! lfee.net/2026/04/four...

Anyone in Team #mflbluesky with a #Mandarin speaker contact for a heritage language exam? West Yorks based ideally

Au revoir, Toulouse! À la prochaine!

A Week in Toulouse: Supercharging Teaching with ChatGPT and AI This week, I have been in beautiful Toulouse delivering the LFEE Europe course "Supercharge Your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI," with fantastic support from Richard Tallaron . It has been a highly prod...

Here is a summary of my week long course in Toulouse, "Supercharge Your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI" programme, empowering a fantastic group of educators from Bulgaria, Belgium, Poland, Finland and beyond to master practical AI tools for use in education www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-t...

The groups had great fun doing each other's treasure hunts around Toulouse yesterday and recording the location showing they had solved each clue in Google My Maps. Here is an example from one group who used a bit of remove.bg to add a little creativity to the activity www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

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Hope to see some of you there. Language Links membership is FREE to join. You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It should give us a really interesting snapshot of teachers’ current experiences with AI, whether you’re already experimenting or just getting started.

I’ll then download the responses as a PDF and upload them into NotebookLM to generate an infographic and short video overview of the group’s ideas. A simple workflow you could replicate with your own departments or CPD groups.

During my 15-minute slot, I’ll create a Padlet live and invite colleagues to share three things in one post:
• how they are using AI (or would like to)
• a current challenge
• opportunities they see ahead

Language Links is a new network bringing language teachers together to support improvement in language teaching, and I’m especially pleased to be contributing on one of my favourite topics: AI and edtech for language learning.

Looking forward to sharing some practical ideas teachers can use straight away in the languages classroom

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I’m delighted to be joining Jonathan Mumford,
@jenomfl.bsky.social and Alasdair Harris for the upcoming Language Links AI and technology session on Thursday 30th April at 19.30 BST. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Discussing the ethical use of AI in education On day four of my Supercharge Your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI course with LFEE Europe here in Toulouse, we had a really thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion about the ethical use of AI in educatio...

A summary of a discussion that we had today in Toulouse about the ethical use of AI in education as part of my course for LFEE Europe 'Supercharge Your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI. www.linkedin.com/pulse/discus...

Designing a treasure hunt with AI On day three of my Supercharge your teaching with ChatGPT and AI course for LFEE Europe, we explored how to create a treasure hunt for the following afternoon, with teachers using AI to generate clues...

Here is a summary of how teachers on my Supercharge your teaching with ChatGPT and AI course used Brisk Teaching, ChatGPT and Perplexity to create and fact-check an AI-generated treasure hunt around Toulouse involving Google Forms and Google My Maps. www.linkedin.com/pulse/design...

Brilliant first day with 35 educators in Toulouse for my Supercharge Your Teaching with ChatGPT and AI course for LFEE Europe. Here is a wonderful infographic generated from delegates sharing how they are currently using AI. One of the best examples I’ve seen at this type!

Delighted to be joining the iTELL Conference 2026 in Bali as a Featured Speaker this July.

I will be presenting virtually from the UK on:

AI as a Sparring Partner: Practical Ways to Develop Language Skills

Register here:
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Adapting new technologies to empower teaching, learning and assessment This afternoon, I had the absolute pleasure of delivering an up-to-date, interactive session titled "Adapting new technologies to empower teaching, learning and assessment" for the trainee teachers at...

Here is a summary of the presentation 'Adapting new technologies to empower teaching, learning and assessment' I delivered online today for the trainee teachers at the University of Buckingham. www.linkedin.com/pulse/adapti...

Empowering MFL Teachers with AI – Practical Tools to Support the New GCSE This afternoon, I delivered a face-to-face twilight session for the ALL South Coast and Isle of Wight (ALL SCIOW) branch at Hamble School, near Southampton, titled “Empowering MFL Teachers with AI – P...

Here is a summary of the 2 hour presentation I gave today for the ALL South Coast and Isle of Wight (ALL SCIOW) branch at Hamble School. www.linkedin.com/pulse/empowe...

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My last Plovdiv training session for the week For my last training session in Plovdiv this week, I had the absolute pleasure of presenting at Aleko Konstantinov Primary School to the wonderful school staff and local colleagues. I must first say h...

Here is a summary of the last training session I delivered this week in Plovdiv before flying home tomorrow. www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-las...

Working with University Lecturers at Plovdiv: Navigating AI, Ethics, and Academic Integrity This morning, I presented a comprehensive and highly practical session for university lecturers at the University of Plovdiv, focusing on how artificial intelligence can be leveraged to save time, red...

Here is a summary of my session this morning with the Lecturers at Plovdiv University looking at using AI in Higher Education. www.linkedin.com/pulse/workin...