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 Hello everyone. This week, I have a new assignment for your Current Issues in Teaching class. The assignment is creating an AI-enhanced corpus-based teaching material along with a lesson plan based on the ASSURE model for the target group of EFL learners enrolled in a high school in Turkey. The assignment required us to choose a unit from the Prep School textbook and prepare a lesson plan that includes students' use of Corpus and AI. We chose Unit 4 from the book and chose Will/Be going to and the present continuous as the target forms. We chose COCA as the online corpus tool for the lesson plan. We created a lesson plan based on the ASSURE model we had previously learned. The ASSURE model analyzes student characteristics. The objective of the lesson is determined based on the ABCD model. The materials to be used are determined. These are used throughout the lesson, and student participation is encouraged. Finally, the degree to which the objective has been achieved is evaluated. ...

 Hello everyone after a long break. I hope you're all well. We'll be back together again soon. As you may remember, I'm Bahar. I'm now a third-year English teacher. On my blog, I'll keep you updated on what we'll be doing in this semester's "Current Issues in Teaching" course. The aim of this course is to develop future teachers into technologically competent individuals in this technological age. Teacher candidates will learn about newly available technologies in English language teaching. They will learn the use, productivity, and usefulness of artificial intelligence in education. Students will learn how to create and use certain technological tools in education. Students will be taught how to provide an integrated education with technology and media. We'll be working on a lot of projects this semester. I'll share them with you. Stay tuned for the next blog. Best wishes.

 Hello everyone, in this post I would like to talk to you about the Instructional Technologies course we took this semester and express my opinions. The aim of this course is to provide technological skills to future teacher candidates. Technology has now become the center of everything all over the world. This course was very useful in keeping up with the times and providing our students with these skills. Since we are language teachers, we have become interested in integrating technology into language teaching. This course was a skill-based course rather than a memorization-based course. We did a lot of activities. Course grades were given according to the technological tasks we did throughout the semester. I discovered the blogger application thanks to this course and I will continue to use this application. In this lesson, we learned about infographic, pictochart, magic school and many other applications. Some of these applications are very helpful for the teacher to create mat...

Hello everyone after a short break. Today, I would like to talk about the artificial intelligence task given to us as homework in class and share my experiences. In the Informational Technologies course, we were given an assignment in which we would use AI. This assignment was to interview a historical figure. I used the magic school app for this. I chose to interview Fatih Sultan Mehmed. It felt great to interview the sultan, one of the greatest conquerors of Turkish history. The application is very useful and useful for students, especially for second language learners. It helps a lot in developing skills such as speaking. I leave the link to the interview I prepared below. I hope you like it. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-eF3l0ZG0T0DTqz05hW_-MsGqzhlMMB7I7r3j7-E2LI/edit?usp=drivesdk

  Hello everyone, Today I will tell you about my experience with an assignment given in the instructional technologies course. In this assignment, we created groups of 3 people and expressed our opinions about a movie we chose. We  chose the movie Mr. Nobody. The movie Mr. Nobody tells the life of the main character named Nemo. The film tells about the choices Nemo will make throughout his life and eight alternative storylines that will take place accordingly. We briefly stated what was talked about in this movie, the subject to be emphasized, and our opinions about the movie. We distributed tasks in this assignment. We exchanged ideas and wrote a joint article. The Google Docs application we used for this assignment was very useful for a collaborative task. Once we exchanged ideas remotely and created a document with access permission, everyone could write whatever they wanted. When the homework was finished, we were able to give comments and advice to each other through the ...

 Hello everyone Today I will tell you about my experience of creating a digital story. I and my classmate Melike prepared the story. It's about a fictional story about Pluto. Pluto, which is not big enough, is no longer seen as a planet by people, and Pluto is very upset about this situation. One day, a scientist named Nova and his robot friend Atlas notice something is wrong while looking at the planets through a telescope. They see Pluto approaching the Earth. He understands that he wants Pluto to be considered a planet again. They are discussing this situation with other scientists. Pluto becomes a planet again. We prepared this digital story from the pixton application. In this application, you can easily prepare characters, backgrounds and create a story. After preparing the story, we uploaded it to YouTube. I will leave the link below. I hope you like it. I wish you happy days. 🍓 https://youtu.be/WhWV8Z_BERw?si=SmTyq4XTIWqkgZRX