A Different Experience: Voice-Chat with AI!

Hello again!

How are you? I hope you are all fine! As our last assignment in the course, we were supposed to have either a voice-chat with an AI or have a chat with one of the characters of Magic School based on the given instructions by our instructor. Among these options, I chose to have a voice-chat with ChatGPT based on the question of "If you designed a day in an English classroom in 2040, what would it be like?" and it gave me really comprehensible answers. In this respect, it was really good to have a conversation with it. However there was also a strange point about it, too. It created the transcript of one of my utterances in Turkish and I couldn't understand why. Anyway, I found the voice-chat experience with ChatGPT quite engaging. While talking to it, it really tries to give you ideas about the topic and it explains them respectively and in a clear way. It was great because even when you talk with a real person, the conversation may get complicated and at the end of it, you may have not understood the point you want to learn. When it comes to my own teaching practice, I have realized that I can integrate AI or other technologies to my lessons so that students can experience how it is to have a voiced or a normal chat with AI. In this way, they can also decide if they want to use AI or other technologies in their future life or not, for example. I can give them an assignment about having a conversation with AI and later ask them to talk about their experience and evaluate this experience. However, I would tell them to consider the drawbacks and benefits of using these tools when giving assignments to my students, of course. Because when these programs are used excessively, it can lead to some laziness in the students, too. Nevertheless, these tools have benefits, too. For example, they can help the students with pronunciation. I don't know if we can trust AI for pronunciation but I think we can trust other technological tools for the exercises like pronunciation. In brief, I think that, AI has both benefits and drawbacks for students, but when you know how to use it, it can be a very useful tool.


I used Google Docs to write my reflective paper because of its comment functionality.


You can go there by clicking here: Reflective Report


You can also see the transcript of the conversation by clicking to reflective report, it's at the end of the report paper.    

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