Today's Era In Education

🍙 Welcome! 🍙  Today I won't present you something you don't know (if you read my last post) but a different version of it. There is a small difference.     Last week, I have told you about what a flipped classroom is. It is an approach to the classroom environment in which w e use some tools such as videos, slides before the class to prepare students for the lesson, than give them the chance to learn themselves. Roughly, we only prepare our students but they learn themselves. Last week we made a vocabulary teaching video for the middle school students. This time we have created a grammar teaching video for high school prep clasroom.     While making our video, we used  Powtoon as our tool again. Because as I understood, learning how to use a website is harder than creating a video. So we continued with a tool we already knew. Even if the problems of Powtoon still remains -such as not being able to make our video longer than three minutes- since we know h...

 Hola everyone, welcome to y'all! Today I am here with a tough duty. Let's talk about it.     This duty's subject is flipped classroom approach. It is an approach which includes student-centered environment and aims to make students active. So basically we make students learn themselves. We use some tools such as videos, slides before the class to prepare students for the lesson, than give them the chance to learn themselves. With that feature of this approach, the main role in the class goes for the pupils and the side role for the teacher.     In this assignment, me and my partner -bestie- present you a video and a handout we have created for a flipped classroom. The hardest part of it was creating the video. Since we had no experience in this matter, we couldn't see the problematic parts before we faced to them. Also, we used Powtoon as our tool and it apparently caused some problems as well. The first problem was that, my friendo couldn't edit our video so I...

Welcome to my first duty friends! It was hard but enjoyable but hard...     I made a language awarness task with my bestie again. In these tasks, the most important thing is helping students to make them discover. We make them notice. This type of learning is called as " inductive learning ". In our work, we created a corpus for our students' discovery. Corpus is a collection of written texts from different sources. In the corpus we made they all include two particular words. You can see it below. Then, we made some exercises in wich they can use their own earnings and develop themselves. And all these are called " data driven learning ". Super efficient way to lecture.     We decided to prepare our work in the theme of Marauder's Map from Harry Potter because we believe it will attract our students more. I found different sentences from my Harry Potter books and made a corpus while my friend was making practices. Then we put them together with Canva. Here...

    It's me, Gamze, again. But what's happening and why am I here? I will explain to you but firstly let's have a brief chat, shall we?     I was in a short school holiday in Turkey. In these days I did nothing but watching anime and reading books/manga since I was at home all the time. I've watched Neon Genesis Evangelion for the second time, finished Attack on Titan's manga and started to read Jujutsu Kaisen as well as Harry Potter (second time again). Complicated right? I blow hot and cold. I hope you had funier times than mine. Now I am excited for my new term and I will try to do better than I did last term.     To come to the other issue, why I'm here, the reason is that  I have a new course to share with you! It's called Material Design in English Language Teaching. It's about technology in education. My teacher is going to give me some assignments and I will share them with you. Just like we did in the last term. However, I will act as a teache...

      Hello fellas, it's my last hello to you.     We have came to the end of this semester so the end of my Educational Technologies class. Let's talk about my earnings and thoughts about that adventure before my farewell to you.     I've always knew that technology is important and going to be important in English language teaching for me. However; I wasn't quite sure how I can use technology as a future teacher and I was afraid of not knowing enough about it. I was right. Because I've learned so many things like infographics, making a podcast, digital storytelling etc. Besides, I have built a relevance between these things and and education. For example, I can use digital storytelling and infographics to teach boring subjects in a funny way! I can know my students better with bookreview and they can do this for themselves. The only thing that I did and I'm not really certain is posters. I don't know how I can use them for class environment.   ...

      Hello theree my friends! We're close to the end of my duties for my class, but who knows, maybe I continue with another aim?     So let me introduce you one of my last duties, it's digital storytelling. There were three options for this assignment and in the one we chose, we had to make a video about a process. But who are we? It's me and my best friend! We are our besties for a long time and now we made a video together 👯. She loves bullet journals and I love drawing, what could we do? We tell you about making a weekly log for a bullet journal! Her name is Gülsüm Karakuş and here is the blog of her in case you wanna look at:  https://moodmudblood.blogspot.com/     Digital storytelling is such a great way to explain something really. Because it is short, you never get bored. It's very useful for any field, so it is for language as well. The most boring subject in language is memorizing new words for me. Therefore the first thing that came t...

     Hi friends! Another week at our homes with pandemic. Doesn't sound well right?     This week I made an infographic. I used Canva as my website again and it was fun. I've learned some statistics. I think infographics are very useful because they have short informations, nice illustrations (as your wish) so that they don't bother the person who reads. They can be used in language for giving learners short informations - especially about boring subjects - and also they can be used for explaining and teaching new techniques /activities to teachers for class. Here is my work if you wanna look; I hope you like it :) See you a week later, take care of yourselves!