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Exploring AR/VR Teaching Materials!

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Let's explore AR/VR-integrated teaching material! Hi there, dear reader. Welcome back! This week, we dove into a super exciting project: creating AR/VR-integrated teaching material! Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Our task, assigned by our teacher, was to design a learning experience for high school English prep students that uses AR/VR to bring lessons to life. We were asked to introduce landmarks, a museum, and a cultural highlight of a city and then bring it all together with an engaging worksheet for the students. So, where did our journey take us? Brazil! More specifically, the dynamic and colorful city of Rio de Janeiro. Our Work Our task was to create a fun way for students to learn about Rio, dear reader. Using 360-degree YouTube videos and Google Arts & Culture, we took them on a virtual tour of the National Museum of Fine Arts, where they explored amazing exhibits. We asked interesting questions to make them think and share their ideas—like picking their favorite artwork...

Flipping the Classroom: A Fun Way to Learn

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  Experiencing the Flipped Classroom Approach  Dear reader, For this project, we tried something new: a flipped classroom approach! It’s when students learn the material at home (think videos or readings) and spend class time doing activities or practicing what they learned. This method has its advantages and disadvantages. On the bright side, it allows students to learn at their own pace and makes classroom time more interactive. However, it can also be challenging for teachers to prepare effective videos and materials. While we haven’t fully implemented it in practice, we’re assuming the role of teachers experimenting with this method—and we’re so excited to experience how it works! Our Task Our task was to design a flipped classroom experience for high school prep students by creating a teaching video and a quiz to support their learning. Berkay, Selen, and I chose the grammar topic Comparative and Superlative Adjectives from Unit 5 of the MEB prep kaynağının 5. ünitesinde...

CORPUS-BASED TEACHING MATERIAL!

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Using corpus as an educational tool!  Hi there, dear reader! Today I want to share our fun journey creating a worksheet and lesson plan as a group work focusing on the verbs "get" and "take." Trust me, it was quite the adventure! The Task and Our Awesome Material So, what did we do? We designed a worksheet to help preparatory school students master the tricky differences between "get" and "take." Here's the scoop: we gave them a short story filled with blanks where they had to choose the right verb. But before diving into the story, the students did some detective work using a corpus (a big collection of texts) to see how these verbs are used in real life. After filling in the blanks, they listened to the story to check their answers. Cool, right? I'll include the worksheet at the end of this post, so stay tuned dear reader! Data-Driven Learning Using a corpus as a tool for data-driven learning has huge benefits. It allows students to see...

WELCOME BACK!

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Welcome back dear reader! It's so nice to be here again after a long break! I hope you're doing well, dear reader. I'm doing great and I'm really excited for the new semester. I'll continue writing this blog for my Current Issues in Teaching course this semester.As we can tell from the name of the course, this semester I will be writing about many current and creative topics. Please continue reading and sharing your thoughts with me, dear reader. Take care! ZeyHames♡

What have we done so far? Let's evaluate the semester!

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We've reached the end of another term! Hello my dear reader, today I came to say goodbye for a short time, we talked about a lot of things together, didn't we?✌ Now it's time to evaluate them and choose our favorites!💫 I mentioned that I opened this course for the technology course I took, I complete the tasks given by my teacher and share them here. Now it's time to evaluate this lesson and our work. Technology integration in language teaching Dear reader, as you know, all the posts I have made so far have touched on technology integration in language education. As a future teacher and a student who grew up with technology, I was always aware of the importance of keeping up with this development and integrating technology "correctly" into lessons.💪 Taking such a course was very useful in teaching me how to use technology as well as how not to use it. We started these tasks with infographics and continued with podcasting, digital storytelling, calloborative ...

Let's explore artificial intelligence as an educational tool!

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  Artificial Intelligence Hello dear reader, I hope everything is okay! The purpose of our task this week is to examine artificial intelligence from both a student and teacher perspective. It's hard not to get excited when it comes to artificial intelligence!🥳 With your permission, I would like to tell you about the details of my homework. Our task is to chat and interview a character we choose using Magic School, an artificial intelligence tool. And I chatted with my favorite artist Vincent Van Gogh! Isn't it great?💖   AI from student perspective I used AI as a student in the first part of my work and had a very enjoyable interview. I consider Magic School's Character Chatbot as an activity that students, regardless of age, will definitely have fun with. Dear reader, I definitely think that the use of AI is a very valuable educational tool for students, when it is applied in an educational way, as in this assignment. I believe that it is a wonderful language support tool...

COLLABORATIVE WRITING AND A REVIEW OF "PAPILLON"

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  Let's talk collaborative writing and film review! Hi there, dear reader! I hope everything is okey because I am here with a wonderful topic today, enjoy reading! 💥The subject of our technology lesson this week was collaborative writing and the task I chose was to make a film review as a pair work using Google Docs. And I think is was the best assignment I've ever received. What do you think, dear reader? In my opinion, if there is something better than watching movies, it is reading and talking about movies.🎥 What was the film review process like? My friend Selen and I worked together on this assignment, and can you belive it, dear reader, our work started by watching a movie together (of course, we didn't forget to take our notes while watching)! 😎Then, we shared the notes we took using Google Docs and the points we want to talk about in our writing. The rest is to have a long chat about the movie and edit our writing using the same website. Google Docs is definitely ...