ELT Journal

   Greetings everyone! This won't be about another assignment because the end of the semester has arrived. Time passes fast, isn't it? This post will be about the overall evaluation of our Instructional Technologies and Material Design in English Language Teaching course. My View of Technology: I think technology is a part of our everyday life. It makes our life easier in any way imaginable if used correctly. This course fortified my views about technology overall by creating oppurtunities for me to produce digital literacies. My Beliefs About Technology And Education: Overall this course changed my opinions about 21st century education. Initially, I thought that technologies and digital literacies are not very useful in language education. However, as I have produced digital literacy, I have observed that these tasks can be advantageous in many ways and they can enable students to produce, which can fortify their learning. These tasks create oppurtunities for collaborati...

  Greetings everyone! I am back with another post. In our ICT course this week we were required to complete an artificial intelligence (AI) task which involves talking to dead people. It is spooky, isn't it? Once again I have paired up with, you guessed it, Ahmet Alper Aydoğdu (feel free to check out his page as well!) for the completion of the assignment. But don't be alarmed before I talk about the task. General Information About The Task: This week we were required to use an AI tool named " magicschool.ai " which I did not know of. In the website, there are many AI tools that can be used for specific purposes. In the assignment we were required to use a feature that allows us to communicate with an AI that can act and talk as a character (historical figures, scientists, celebrities, and so on). We were supposed to conduct an interview which consists of ten questions. For our character, we have chosen Stefan Zweig to conduct our interview project. Then, as asked, w...