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Goodbye!

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Hello, my dear readers!💖 It is sad to tell you this but this will be my last post in this blog.  Since this post is my final post for my Instructional Technologies in Material Design course I want to talk about this course and what I did in this course. So, let's look at what I have done so far.  Before taking this course I actually had almost no idea about the integration of technology in English language teaching. I've learned many web pages, AI tools, educational apps and so much more to use in my future assignments and classes when I became a teacher. I also learned that all these tools have both good and bad sides. We can get help from them but they can sometimes make our tasks more challenging and the informations we collect from them might not be reliable.  In general, I didn't see this course and the tasks as something I am forced to take as some of my other courses. :( Instead, this was a great course that taught me lots of things that I can use in the future. W...

Chat with Mehmed the Conquerer!

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    Hello, my dear readers!💖 Today we are going to talk about using AI tools.  This week we were assigned to  chat with a historical figure, author, or story character by using an AI tool named Magic School. After the chat we were supposed to make a report of the interview and get feedback using the Magic School's Writing Feedback Tool. Lastly, we were supposed to revise our report based on the feedback. We could work on this task alone or with a pair. We worked as a pair with my friend Nisa, you can click here here if you want to check her blog. We wanted to make an interview with Fatih Sultan Mehmed and ask him some questions about the conquest of Constantinople. To chat with Mehmed the conquerer the AI tool we used was Magic School. It has lots of functions such as making a lesson plan, differentiating, writing assessments, communicating with characters and much more. It is also useful for both teachers and students. It was an interesting experience using its cha...