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 Greetings, Have you ever tried to talk to Chat GPT? Most people have tried or at least heard of AI tools that can respond to what you say to them. And if they can understand what you write to them and respond accordingly, that makes them an excellent tool to receive feedback on a piece of writing. Well, it won't be better than a human but it will be far faster and accurate enough. Which is why my friends and I tried to implement Open AI's  ChatGPT into a classroom writing excercise.  We pondered where exactly to put the AI in our activity and decided it would be best to give content feedback to our students on a short story they write about superheroes. I believe it would be a fun little activity where they can create their own stories and improve upon them with some mechanical help from ChatGPT. If you want to check out the activity itself you can click here to take a look at it. This link will take you to the lesson plan for the material above.  Hope you too ca...

  Greetings! Have you ever wondered what it would be like if homework and class switched places?   Well, I haven’t, but that is what I thought when I first heard about the flipped approach. It is a type of classroom practice where you assign your students with learning the subject of the class at home. For example, making them watch a video about it. And in the actual lesson you spend time practicing said subject. In language classes, where exposure to the language is critical and often difficult to obtain, this method can serve as a means to let students interact with the language as much as possible. However, listening to a teacher in person and watching a video of a lesson is not quite the same for most people so there is a risk of students not understanding the core subjects. In the Flipped Approach, a teacher can choose from a variety of options to make students learn the subject at home. One of those options is to record a video of them teaching the subject thems...

Greetings! Have you ever used a corpus? It is basically a massive collection of written or spoken text to analyze language use. When presented with such a tool one cannot help but wonder "how can this be used to teach language?". So, people did, and they came up with Data Driven Learning.   As teacher candidates, me and my partners Berat , Mustafa and Abdülhamid  were tasked to create materials and a lesson plan using DDL. We used the Corpus of Contemporary American English to design a class that would make students discover the differences of the words "make" and "do". Materials were created using Canva. We made sure to provide sufficient instructions for the students to get the results they need from the corpus so that they can discover how make and do are used in context. We also created worksheets for them to practice their discoveries. Which also allows us to see if they successfully grasped the correct use of the words. I believe our material ...

Greetings! And also, Goodbye. We came to the end of the school term and thus the updates on this blog will end along with my course.  Before this course my view on technology was mainly about using projections, smart boards and some websites that made classroom content more convenient to use. However, through the course I came to realize that current technology can do much more than showing PowerPoint slides. Our technology can help the students put their knowledge into action, allow them to receive authentic input or even encourage them to create their own products. Such advantages can support their learning process greatly and significantly increase the quality of education. Of the many tasks we have completed, I had the most fun while making a fictional story with my friends. The production was a brilliant experience from the base scratch of the story to the final touches on the voice-over. Truthfully the end result was mediocre at best, but I am proud of our creation as it ...

 Greetings, have you ever wondered what it would be like to talk to someone who passaed away long ago or someone who did not exist at all? Well, humans still can't do that. However, we do have something that is quite similar. That is Artificial Intelligence Chatbots. With enough data about a person's characteristics, AI chatbots are capable of mimicking real or fictional people and engage in conversations with us.  For this purpose I used Magic School 's character chatbot feature to fetch the soul of Erwin Rommel and had a chat about his experiences in WWII. The Chatbot provided a teacher-student context between me and Rommel in which I was the student so Rommel responded to my questions as if he was eagerly tutoring an officer under his care. Through this session of question and answers I gained new insight on a great historical figure's ideals and worldview while also learning about new facts. However, as it is a common limitation of the current state of AI, it some...

Greetings! Have you watched any stop-motion movies recently ? You can take a look at the review we made which will most likely make you want to watch one.  As per our instructions Reyhan , Serra and I created a review of the movie "Mary and Max" on Google Docs. The subject movie was not a part of the instructions though, it was suggested by Miss Reyhan and thanks to her great taste we didn't spend a lot of time pondering which movie to review. Since none of us use Google Docs regularly it took us a little time to get used to its functions. After learning which buttons to press it is actually a really good tool to write something with different people. My personal favourite is the suggestion function which allows you to propose a change without having to delete your partner's work. However, we still used other means to communicate what those proposals meant. It feels better to talk about changes through texting eachother but that might be because we're not comfor...