This Goodbye Text Was Not Generated with AI

 Greetings, dearest folks! How have you been? 

As for me, I literally have this chronic exhaustion in my body, and I really do not know how to break out of it. It really is frustrating to work on assignments while knowing very well that I probably will not have any time to focus on my final week, but I guess I will find a way. This will be our last (but maybe not last?) blog post for the semester, so before I legit turn this text into a therapy session, let's start! 

For the last assignment of this course, my default trio (Melis, Elena and Berfin) and I did another worksheet on teaching the difference between two important phonemes, integrating AI into our lesson. The main AI tools we wanted the students to use were MagicSchool and ChatGPT, and as always, the preparation process was fun. I believe AI would benefit our students if we also know how to use it effectively and ethically, so we can teach them how to use AI technologies. Even though I could use AI with my future students, I am concerned about the addictive part of these technologies. I don't want my students to become brain-dead or slaves while benefiting from a technology, so I'd try to balance things out. You can find our project and my friends' blogs at the bottom of this post!

I believe this concludes our adventures for now, humble folks! This course was filled with ups and downs, and I gained so many things about integrating technologies into our lessons. Even though the course was tiring, I believe it will benefit me in the long run. What I would suggest to you for the course is researching certain technologies such as AR/VR and AI, and explore around. Don't be shy, there are thousands of options waiting for you to notice them! 

To my humble course teachers, I express my gratitude for guiding us through this journey and for your efforts in teaching us about everything we know. The one criticism I'd give would be the timetables of the assignments. We already had so many deadlines to deal with, and this course's assignments often clashed with the others. Especially the deadline we had right after the midterms, that specific one felt like pure torture. I'm not trying to be mean but maybe that can be put into consideration for the future students? Please?

 Nevertheless, thank you for your efforts and I'm sorry if I worded anything wrong or disrespectful, it's never my intention. It's a great opportunity to work with you and I'm looking forward to our future courses where we can learn even more from you!

I always believed that endings are essentially new beginnings, so I don't feel sad for my blog adventures to end. Who knows, maybe we will find each other in another project? 

See you, and don't forget to always take care of yourself!

AI Lesson Plan

Worksheet

Melis

Elena

Berfin

We Even Stepped Into AR/VR World, Huh?

 Greetings, dearest folks! How's your life been going? 

For me, I think it's been a bit better than my last weeks. I managed to get small moments of rest and actually went out with my friends to rejuvenate. It felt refreshing to finally do such activities, but now it's time for me to return to the world of assignments.

For this week's homework, we worked on making AR/VR integrated materials. Me and my friends (a.k.a my fixed group) Melis, Elena and Berfin once again worked together and blended our powers together to handle this, and I believe we did such a good job again! This assignment felt easier to do, and finally I found myself having fun while making all these. Finding all these 3D objects and 360 videos and tours were sometimes hard, but the overall activity we made is engaging. 

I've learned so much while preparing this activity, such as how interactive and interesting an activity or worksheet actually can be with the help of such technologies. In the future, I think I might use such technologies, as VR and AR can enhance children's motivation and enable them to see things they may not be able to see in real life. Also, who wouldn't want to go to a museum from where you sit anyway? I think that's perfect for students, and very interesting!

I think that's all for now. I'd like to write more but I think I'm not in the mood for writing more and I think it's one of my worst writings so far through this semester. Time to relax a little.

See you and don't forget to drink water and take care! You can see our lesson plan, our worksheet and my friends' blogs!

Melis

Berfin

Elena

Lesson Plan 

Worksheet

Hey, I Just Made a Teaching Video!

 Greetings, dearest folks! How's your life been going? 

For me, I think I'm going through 1805th cycle of my torture, but I'm not changing majors yet, no worries. All of you are stuck with me until I graduate, so before I start talking about things that are completely unrelated and rant about things, let's dive into today's topic, shall we? 

Today, we're going to talk about the flipped classroom approach. It's an approach that suggests the classroom time is not sufficient for lectures, so the topic is given before the class time and the time is used for activities that mainly focus on high order thinking skills. It's a great opportunity to make more advanced activities with the students in the classroom, but I don't think this approach can be suitable for everyone. Now that we think about it, no approach can be suitable for everyone anyway, since everyone is different, but I think we still need to keep it in mind. 

Me and my dearest friends, Melis, Elena and Berfin worked together again, this time for our homework about the flipped approach. We were required to prepare a lesson plan and a video for high school preparatory class students, whose English is between A1-A2. Our topic was Present Simple Tense, which is an important topic despite seeming like a piece of candy to us. The process was smooth in my opinion, at least when it comes to communication between me and my group members. The whole assignment, however, made me lose another piece of my soul and I think I need a good sleep to rejuvenate. Despite that, I think we did a good job, so shout out to my dearest friends for their efforts! 

This was pretty much the summary of our process. You can find our lesson plan, our video's YouTube link and my friends’ blog pages down below! 

See you in a new post, and don't forget to drink water and take care! 

The Video

The Lesson Plan

Melis

Elena

Berfin