Current Issues' Land in ELT

Hey everyone, this is my final blog post for this semester :(  Before I started this semester, I had very limited knowledge about technology integration in English language teaching. I thought that technology was limited to the use of a smart board, PowerPoint presentations, and maybe a few videos. However, thanks to this course, my perspective has completely changed. I realized that technology is not only a tool but also an element that enriches learning, motivates students, and makes teaching more effective. The tasks we completed during the course both informed and made me think about this. For example, while preparing an infographic on “cyberbullying,” I learned about digital safety and experienced how I could use technology for educational purposes. Also, working with Canva and similar digital tools like Google Docs and AI tools helped me understand the impact of visual and written designs in teaching. The reflective writings we did with our peers and ourselves also helped me ...

Hello, everybody!! For this semester, my final assignment is here. In this assignment, I was given two options: one is chatting with a historical figure, author, or recognized character from a story, and the other is chatting with a chatbot using my voice for 3-5 minutes. I chose the first option and used the Magic School Character AI tool to chat and have a conversation with the character Juliet from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. My task was to ask Juliet at least ten meaningful questions. This process was quite fun and offered a different way of learning that was thought-provoking. Next, I was asked to do a report according to the chat I had with the character and get feedback from the same AI's writing feedback tool and revise my report according to the feedback that was given to me along with the comments I've made about the suggested feedback given to me and which changes I've made. This process was quite hard for me because the feedback was not quite helpful for...