Journey of Learning with Naz Emanetoğlu 📚

 Hello my dear bloggers~! 😆 Today, we designed a lesson "The Character Interview," where students will use the Magic School AI chatbot to help them with the 'blank page' problem. Instead of using AI to generate text, we designed a workflow where students use the chatbot to generate ideas. In the activity that we prepared by Canva, all students conduct an interview with a fictional character they've chosen to learn about that particular character's background, motivations, and conflicts. This " interview" pre-task is critical because, before students write, it gives them genuine background and situational use of the language they need and the right tone. When students are ready to write, the AI workflow we designed should have helped them generate a notebook full of ideas. In addition to a lesson outline, my friends and I have organized the entire AI workflow, including a student printable, a notebook, and a lesson package for you to download. Check ...

  Hello my dear bloggers! 🫶🏻 For this project, we designed a VR/AR integrated worksheet, ASSURE MODEL and a final project guideline to help A2-level high school English preparation students to virtually navigate through Tokyo. We began this project by making a worksheet after determining which landmarks, museums, and cultural activities to include, and creating questions around those preferences.  One of the main obstacles me and İrem faced in the project was the worksheet. Keeping the questions within the scope of A2-level students was a challenge, as we had to ensure that the questions we created were not only engaging but also at a level that students could handle, which was a bit difficult of a balance to find. The VR/AR content that we were looking for took a while to find as well, mostly because we needed videos that would fit the concept as well as possible. The ASSURE model my friend Nurefşan provided guidance during the planning process. Without being overly informa...

  Hello, my dear bloggers! Did you miss me? Today I’m going to talk about what “flipped classroom” means and a grammar teaching video I made with my friends for a flipped EFL classroom. First of all, a flipped classroom means that students watch videos or read material before class, and during class time, students practice and ask the instructor questions. This is beneficial for language classes, as students come prepared, and the class time can be spent on speaking and using the language, so it is a big advantage in my opinion. It also helps students go at their own pace. However, I think there are some downsides. Students who don’t watch videos beforehand usually fall behind, and sometimes students are not able to grasp new grammar because they don’t have the support of the teacher. As a teacher myself, I wouldn’t really use this a p proach for my elementary students, as I know they wouldn’t study beforehand and need more guidance. image made by AI For our project, we planned...