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  Hi guys! How is everyone doing? I hope all is well.  Today, I will talk about our "AI in ELT" assignment and how it went. For this assignment, we were basically supposed to create a teaching material that integrates AI into students' learning process. Before reflecting on our creating process, if you want to take a look at them, here's our material and lesson plan: Teaching Material ASSURE Lesson Plan Well, while working on our assignment, my peers Bernis , Azra and I had a lot of brainstorming sessions, and finally decided to integrate AI within a writing task. We ourselves were using AI mostly to get feedback on our own writings and we thought maybe this could be beneficial for high school prep students as well. The process went quite smooth actually since we did a lot of group work projects this semester, we were used to the process. One challanging part was to decide on the design and the topic of the writing task. Other than that, the process was really fun an...

Hello there! How are you guys doing? Well, I'm pretty fine, if you ask me. Today, as you can guess from the title, I will talk about VR/AR integrated classrooms in ELT and our assignment about them. In our assignment, we were supposed to create a teaching material that included VR/AR tools. Our topic was “Exploring a city abroad” , and we needed to provide students with 360-degree virtual tours, videos, etc. It was an assignment with quite a lot of steps actually. I would say the most challenging part was choosing a city and researching important landmarks and museums. There were too many options, and it required a handful of research. In the end, we decided to go with Vienna, Austria , and we are really happy with our decision. We chose two landmarks and a museum and added QR codes that lead students to virtual tours and videos. We even included a 3D model of a Wiener Schnitzel in our material, haha! 🍽️ If you're curious: 🔘 VIEW OUR VR/AR VIENNA MATERIAL After design...

Hey there, everyone! How are you guys? Well, if you wonder how I've been; these couple of weeks have reaaallyy been tough to be honest. It was just submitting one assignment after another and doing one presentation after another... Sometimes I feel like school consumes all my life... But no worries, your girl handles it all, haha! 😎 Anyways, today I'll talk about flipped classrooms and our assignment about them. Let's dive in! Well, a flipped classroom is structured around the idea that lecture or direct instruction is not the best use of class time. Instead students encounter information before class, freeing class time for activities that involve higher order thinking. I think a language classroom could benefit from a flipped classroom approach a lot actually. Language learning is mainly about exposure and practise, and a flipped classroom creates time for these in the classroom. On the other hand, preparing materials for instructions beforehand, could increase the wo...