Ana içeriğe atla

21st century learning: what does it exactly mean?

 The term "21st century learning" itself feels difficult to define to me personally, but the very first thing i thought when i saw it can be said as "the over-advancement of information seeking." Learning, for formal or informal reasons, is basically everywhere on our lives thanks to the rapid technological advancements. Your teacher used a word that you don't know the meaning of? You saw an instagram comment claiming something that you don't really know about? It's only seconds and a few clicks away to reach into the vast amount of unknown information. For our case, which is English Language Teaching (ELT), it is probably the fastest adaptation that had gone through in learning. Super-quick translations, AI, puzzles, games and many other apps that allow you to practice language anywhere, anytime. These advancements in ELT have managed to integrate itself into learning in such a way, that it is almost obligatory to follow these advancements and have a high level of understanding. I firmly believe that technology can be a great implementation in language learning and that we should support this transformation process.

Yorumlar

Yorum Gönder

Bu blogdaki popüler yayınlar

AI and Corpus Based Material Task: I'm Back!!

     Hello everyone! After around 5 months, I'm back with yet another post, another assignment. This was an assignment for our Current Issues in Teaching class, and as obvious by the title, it was a material preparation task that utilizes Corpus and AI. To explain it briefly, we had to prepare a worksheet that enabled the learners to use corpus and genAI to complete certain tasks about "since" and "for." Another thing that we had to do was a lesson plan of this worksheet that is prepared by following the ASSURE model's principles and evaluative categories. For me personally, having to come up with creative ways to integrate both corpus and AI into a topic that most of us learnead very traditionally in the past was quite fun and interesting. It was a group work, with me and two of my friends(Tufan and Demirali), have used canva for the design of the worksheet, and utilized Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) together with genAI tools such as ChatGP...
Yorum Gönder
Devamı

AR/VR Integrated Lesson Plan: Does Technology Even Have a Limit?

 Welcome back everyone! As mentioned in the title, this post is going to be about AR/VR integration into ELT.      For startes, we had to prepare a handout in which we introduced 2 landmarks and 1 museum through AR/VR components and supplementary Skill-spesific activities. Me and my friends (Demirali Kılıç, Tufan Gürültü and Zeynep Yeşildağ) decided to pick Prague, Czech Republic (%99 of it being my influence) for this activity. Prague is a beautiful city with a very rich history behind its every street and building, there were so many beautiful landmarks to choose from but we decided to go with the most popular ones, being the Prague Castle, the Charles Bridge, and the National Gallery of Prague. We used 360 tour guides from youtube for the first two, and for the Gallery, there is a real-life interactive map of the ENTIRE gallery up to date, which came in very handy and added more depth to our handout. We, of course, prepared a lesson plan according to ASSURE Model'...
1 yorum
Devamı

Flipped Learning: An Unorthodox Approach to Teaching

 Hi everyone! Today, i'm posting about another assignment, which is visible in the title, about flipped learning. Based from my understanding, it is possible to explain it as an approach to create more room for practice and varied activities in the classroom by moving the "lecturing" part into a homework-like form. Basically, you provide students with videos and materials to go through when they are outside the classroom, and when they come, they already have an idea about the topic that you will now go through in a better way with activities since you no longer need to spend half the time you have lecturing. I think it's a great approach, and i had a lot of fun preparing a video regarding it with my friends. My friends and i have chosen "simple present tense" as our topic and prepared a 5-minute video on canva explaining it. After that, there is a 15-question quiz about simple present tense at the end of the video that we prepared by using WordWall, and an ...
Yorum Gönder
Devamı