Farewell!

 Hello everyone! How are you doing? It is the end of the semester and I can’t believe we made it this far. Unfortunately, this will be my final post. Fortunately, I am very excited for the holiday :) Do you have any plans? I want to rest a lot after this exhausting semester.

I learned a great deal of things throughout the semester from this course. I did not know there were this many ways of integrating technology into teaching. I have always supported the idea of using technology in education. Therefore, taking this course was a great opportunity. I did many assignments for this course. I was not aware of how AI could help this much in education before this semester.

With the help of this course, I am now able to teach English to my future students more effectively. While taking the course, I always thought about how I could use what I was learning in my teaching years in the future. The collaborative writing task taught me how to use GoogleDocs and how to write something with other people engagingly. With the infographic task, I am now able to convey my thoughts and knowledge to other people more effectively. I learned how to collect information on a single sheet and still manage not to overcrowd it. I can now prepare infographics for my own students. These are just the two of the tasks I did for this course but as you can see, I learned a lot from them.

My favorite task was writing a film review collaboratively. I liked the film I watched and receiving comments from other people was fun. It was not difficult to do the task as well. My least favorite was the digital story one. Even though my partner and I worked well, doing the task was challenging. I didn’t like that I had to do a voiceover and it was hard to match the video with my voice.

Overall, I enjoyed this course and I learned different things. However, the tasks were overwhelming and too much in my opinion. Except that, I really enjoyed getting to know the opportunities technology offers to us.  

Thank you for being with me and my blog! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Take good care of yourself and feel free to comment on anything!

Interviewing Charlotte Brontë! (Yes, you heard me right) (an AI task!)

 Hello guys! How are you doing?

Today’s task was using AI to interview a historical figure. I chose Charlotte Brontë and used MagicSchool in the process. At first, I was skeptical because I was not sure if this would work. However, it worked wonderfully! It was like I had Charlotte Brontë in front of me answering my questions. I could ask her whatever I wanted and could receive well-thought-of answers. After the interview, I wrote a report about it and summarized it. Then, I used MagicSchoolAI again and made the bot give feedback to me. It was a great experience, to be honest. The bot gave me feedback and fixed my report accordingly. I used GoogleDocs’ comment feature to write the feedback the bot gave me. You can check them!

AI tools are a great help actually! They can improve your assignments and help you when you struggle to do them. You just have to know how to use them correctly. After using them for my assignments over and over, I started to get better at it. However, there were times when AI couldn’t give me what I wanted. In those times, I tried to give as many details as I could so that AI could understand me. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it did not. Except for the challenges I mentioned, AI was able to help me with my assignments.

I could totally use AI tools in my teaching in the future. I am thinking about teaching my future students how to use AI effectively so that they can get help from it. Then, they will be able to adapt to technology and AI. These days, using technology effectively is essential and I want my students to adjust to the changes. They can get help from AI when writing essays, doing research, getting ideas for something, and a lot of different things! Especially in learning a language, AI can help you a lot! We can get our students to practice speaking or grammar with AI. There are so many opportunities for those who want to learn!

Here is a link to my interview with Charlotte Brontë! We talked about her novel ‘Jane Eyre’ and the women of the Victorian Era. Don’t forget to check the comment section for the feedback AI gave me.

That is all! Thank you for reading and take care of yourself! Feel free to comment on anything.