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Uttered is a new AI tool that seems to be free for now.

It has a relatively small collection of videos that users can watch to learn English, French or Mandarin (you can also copy-and-paste the url address of any other YouTube video).

As you watch it, you’ll see key vocabulary get defined on the side though, unfortunately, its all done in the language of the video – not your home language.

The interesting part is that after you watch the video, you have the choice of being quizzed on it by AI via chat, and you can do that quiz using text or, and here’s the unique part, orally.

Right now, at least, I’d say ESL Video (see A Forgotten (By Me!) Gem That Has Been Rediscovered (By Me & My Students): ESL Video) or Wayground ( Quizizz Lets You Use AI To Create Interactive YouTube Videos Once Again After Having To Stop Last Year – I Think It’s One Of The Most Helpful Ways To Use AI)  are superior options for using videos for learning English.  But, who knows, Uttered may make improvements in the future to become more competitive.

     

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I’ve written thousands of blog posts over the years at this blog and other blogs, including over at Ed Week.

I have also written a few hundred articles for various publications.

You can see my choices for the The Seventeen Best Articles I’ve Written About Education, and you can find links to all of the hundreds of them here.

     

For several years, I regularly wrote posts for The NY Times Learning Network on teaching English Language Learners.

You can see all of them at ALL MY NY TIMES POSTS FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS – LINKED WITH DESCRIPTIONS.

     

I often used visualization techniques with both English Language Learners and English-proficient students during my teaching career.

You can read about it at Best Posts On Helping Students “Visualize Success.”

Now, The NY Times has written another piece on its effectiveness.

Check out This visualization tool worked for a 14-year NBA veteran. You can try it, too.

     

For the next month or so, I’ll be republishing my best posts from the last half of 2025.

I don’t think there are many teachers left who believe in the very old idea that they shouldn’t smile until Christmas but, if there are, there’s now research that debunks it.

Research: When Leaders Express Positivity Early On, Employees Perform Better is a column in The Harvard Business Review that focuses on “employees,” but it’s pretty easy to substitute “students.”

You can see the primary finding in the above text box.

They also found that critical feedback is better received after the first few months, which pretty much every teacher – and every person – knows. We’re all more likely to listen to critique after we’ve developed a level of trust with people and believe they know what they’re doing and have our best interest at heart.

I’m adding this info to Best Posts On Classroom Management.