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Hello everyone, I hope you are all good! In this post, I am going to talk to you about our last assignment of this course. For the assignment, we were supposed to work in groups and create an AI integrated teaching material for EFL high school prep students. (A2 level) As Halil, İren, Sude and me; we prepared a digital worksheet. As the content of the material, we were supposed to choose a focus (reading, listening, speaking or writing) from the UPTONE students' book volume 1. We chose our focus as writing and decided to focus on Simple Present Tense from the "School Life" unit. On the first page of our worksheet, the students watch a video about Simple Present Tense embedded in a QR code, and then they complete four fill in the blanks questions regarding Simple Present Tense. On the next page, there is a text in which there are mistakes concerning the usage of the tense, and the students are asked to underline these. On the next page, students are supposed to ask ChatGPT...

Hello everyone! I hope you are all good! In this post, I am going to talk to you about our 3rd assignment of the course, which is about AR/VR integration into ELT. But, what is AR and VR? AR is a technology that enables you to see the digital content in the real world. So you see the digital content as if it's in your real environment. For example, you can go to IKEA app, and see how a chair looks like in your living room by allowing the app to use your device's camera. However, VR is a slightly different technology from AR, it is 3D environments that enable you to "interact with your surroundings and other users." (Kurt, 2025, p.14) Games like Minecraft or Roblox (Kurt, 2025, p.14) can be given as the examples of it. Now, let's talk about the assignment. For the assignment, we were supposed to create an augmented/virtual reality integrated teaching material for high school English prep. class students (A2 level). We prepared digital handouts in which they explore...

Hi everyone! I hope you are all good! In this post, I am going to tell you the flipped classroom approach and our assignment related to it. So, let's start with the approach. In this approach, the teacher provides the students a digital video that introduces the content to them before the class. After they watched the video, there are some exercises for the learners to practice the content. And when they come to class, they again do another activity related to the content they learned; and of course, like everything, this approach has advantages and disadvantages. It provides the students advantages like learning the content in their own pace, rewinding the video when they cannot understand something, or providing the teachers the chance to provide individual support to students. However, there are also challenges. The teacher may not be sure if the students watched the video or not, or, there may be problems about some students' access to technology. Now, let's talk about ...