Salutations, dear readers. How have you been since our last encounter?
For me, I've been a bit tired lately due to sheer amount of homework and the exam week I survived. However, I kinda signed up for this while enrolling in this major, so I'll endure whatever they throw at me without trying to be stabbed from my tenth thoracic vertebra. Let us dive straight into today's topic.
Today, I want to talk about my experience with corpora and GenAI. Even though I know GenAI and how to use it, never in my life that I ever heard of corpus, let alone using it, so seeing the whole thing detailed this year was a bit of a new territory for me. I actually remember learning about it in my previous year, but this year it is more detailed and it focuses on how we can use it as a teacher. So, we did and our homework was actually about corpus and GenAI! Me and my group mates Elena, Berlin and Melis worked on a lesson plan and a teaching material on learning the difference between mustn't and don't have to. I have to say, it was a pleasant experience for me, since it's always so nice to work with them! We used Canva to make our worksheets and we selected ChatGPT as the GenAI and SKELL as the corpus we selected for the students to use and learn. We aimed to teach the students "mustn't" and "don't have to" with using ASSURE model as our guide. Oh, and we used Google Docs while preparing our lesson plan!
Overall, the experience was fun, but the timing was ABSOLUTELY BAD for me. I don't think I'll recover anytime soon at this rate, thank you very much.
But besides the fact that I'm about to lose my last remnants of sanity with going through 33,550,336 cycles of pure torture, I think the usage of corpora could be very beneficial for our students. It's authentic, and it lets students discover things by themselves such as grammar rules, sentence structure etc. The AI, though? Well... I'm so in-between. I get that AI has many benefits, and trust me, I'm aware that my future students' Google will probably be ChatGPT. But excessive usage of it will only lead us to a downfall. I don't think AI will be in my top 5 priorities list when it comes to preparing materials or showing students new technologies, but regardless I'll be sure to follow the advancements to know my students better.
Aside from the corpus and AI, I also believe this can cause some problems tech-wise.
Come on now, we all know not everyone or every school can get access to technology THIS MUCH. Let's be real here. I know we did all of these with assumptions of everyone has access and all, but we all know it isn't the case. If we want this to be the case, we should work on how we can make students gain access to such things, even though we casually restrict all kinds of technology in the schools sometimes.
That's all I have to say for today, and I hope you enjoyed reading my entry! Don't forget to consume H2O and take care of yourselves!
Don't forget to check out my friends' blog posts and our work down below!
Melis
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