Posts

Showing posts from June, 2024

MY REFLECTIONS ON THE TERM (FINALLY THE FINALS!)

Image
     Hello everyone! So, I am here for one last time to talk about my experiences I had while taking this course during the term. Before taking it, I already had positive views about technology integration into education because of the age we are living in right now, therefore I cannot say it changed my ideas because I believe these two are now inextricable. However I feel the need to mention this: I have learned how it could be healthily integrated on the basis of pedagogical and educational principles and what kind of materials I could use through the assignments we have completed. We also learned many tools regarding language practice. This is specifically really important for countries in EFL context. In this sense, the course added an immense amount of knowledge to me.       When it comes to the tasks we did during the term, I have varying ideas about them. I think they would be really engaging and really fun for  the students. Each one of them re...

INTEGRATION OF AI TOOLS IN ELT

Image
     Hello everyone, this is Melek here! It is so nice to see you again. Today's discussion is about my final assignment. To accomplish it, we needed to work with AI tools which I have to immediately stress that I had so much fun with. Especially with the Character Chatbot.  Engaging in a conversation with a historical figure and receiving answers as if it were really him was a rather different experience. I, personally  liked the tool MagicSchool.ai. It had many features which were fun and useful at the same time. It helped me throughout my assignment to complete the required steps and I did not experience any difficulty because the design of the site was easy to discover on my own.      Now I would like to briefly touch upon the topic of AI integration into my own teaching practice through MagicSchool.ai. When I become a teacher, I certainly want to integrate such tools into my teaching as well. Not only does it help the teachers even in findin...