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Farewell and Final Reflections
As the term ends, I am looking back on my progress. Strengths and weaknesses: The strength was practicing with new technology, while the weakness was the high volume of AI tools to learn in a short time. Easy or difficult: I found the blog posting easy , but I think, creating assure model part was hard for me because ı prepared the assures generally. 3. Favorite and least favorite task: My most favorite task was the New Year AI material because I love dealing with AI .
Berke Çarkcı
Dec 29, 20251 min read
AI Integrated Writing Material
For this task, our group developed an AI integrated teaching material focused on "New Year Wishes and Plans" for EFL high school prep students. We selected writing focus to help students practice future tenses while receiving feedback through ChatGPT. The creation process taught us how to effectively bridge traditional classroom methods, like brainstorming, with modern generative AI tools(ChatGPT).we ensured that AIa supports their critical thinking rather than replacing it.
Berke Çarkcı
Dec 29, 20251 min read
Bringing London to the Classroom: Our AR/VR Adventure
In the lesson, we are engaged with AR/VR technologies and their helps in education. For example, cultural ministry in Türkiye has a website that help you travel around the museums and artifacts around the Türkiye. For our latest instructional technology assignment, my partners and I designed an immersive lesson plan titled "Exploring London: A Virtual Journey." The goal was to take A2-level high school students on a virtual trip to London. It allows them to visit landmarks li
Berke Çarkcı
Dec 15, 20251 min read
Our Flipped Classroom Project Using Basic Vocabulary Items for Fifth Graders.
Welcome to my new assignment. For this assignment, we used the Flipped Classroom Approach. In this method, students watch the lesson at home on video, and they do exercises in class. The big advantage is that we have more time in class for speaking games. However, a disadvantage is that every student need internet access at home to watch the videos. For our task, we prepared a vocabulary lesson for fifth grade students. We focused on 8 basic verbs, such as, Play dodgeball, Pl
Berke Çarkcı
Dec 1, 20251 min read
My Take on the Corpus-Based Materials Task
Our next task was to create an AI-enhanced, corpus-based teaching material. Although it had its challenging parts, it was a great learning experience. Our main goal, guided by the task requirements, was to shift students away from just memorizing rules and instead encourage them to discover language patterns themselves. I really valued how the process focused entirely on student action. Each step from doing the corpus searches to the final practice exercise meant the materi
Berke Çarkcı
Nov 17, 20252 min read
Current Issues in Teaching
Hi again, I have a new course which is about problems in modern English teaching. The course aims to prepare the pre-service English teachers to modern education with the help of technology. Initially, we were informed about the definition of technology and after that we learned CALL which is stands for computer assisted language learning then it branched to the eras of technology based English language teaching. Our past courses’ knowledge was refreshed due to the aim of th
Berke Çarkcı
Oct 13, 20251 min read
Interview with Dexter Morgan
Using AI made me think deeply about writing and how technology is changing language learning. While working on my essay about Dexter...
Berke Çarkcı
Jun 13, 20252 min read


Digital Story
Our aim was to create a digital story with İrem. We tried to create an animation. We chose a story that we like then we animated it then...
Berke Çarkcı
May 13, 20251 min read
Incendies Movie Review
We aimed to make a movie review with Serra and Melisa together. It was kind of hard to complete due to different ideas we have...
Berke Çarkcı
May 13, 20251 min read
Podcast
We have created a podcast with my friend Rana for our assignment.
Berke Çarkcı
Apr 22, 20251 min read


Cyberbullying
Thanks to technology our daily life is considerably easier than our ancestors. Unfortunately, it causes new problems too. Cyberbullying...
Berke Çarkcı
Apr 3, 20251 min read
21st Century Learning and Technology
After we find the motivation, we should fulfill the necessities of the 21st century, which is awareness. Technology improves day by day,...
Berke Çarkcı
Mar 24, 20251 min read
The most Critical Strategy
In my secondary school years, I hated English. But in high school, I started loving English. Thanks to my English teacher, I loved it....
Berke Çarkcı
Mar 24, 20251 min read
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