Hello fireflies! Today, we created pedagogical tools focused on the verbs walk in, step out, walk across, and walk around for our “Current Issues In Teaching Class. Our intention was to develop a teaching sequence around a mini-story, a set of comprehension questions, corpus explorations and usage, an educational AI-generated video, and a worksheet that […]
This year is going to be a special one. The new lecture named Current Issues In Teaching we are taking focuses on AI usage, which means I will be upgrading my digital literacy constantly this year too. With this blog, I aim to learn more about publishing online. Thus, I wish to become a regular […]
Hello my fireflies! In my latest assignment, I imagined what it might be like to sit down with Aristotle in a modern school and ask him a few questions. The made-up talk, which I titled The Aristo Approach, tried to link his old philosophy to todays lessons on virtue, justice, and the arts. We started […]
Hello my fireflies! I had an amazing partnership with Berken Ayten Çekdar and Nurefşan Çakır. I will link their blogs below. It was not my first time trying to make a story post. I always have fun making a story and voice-recording the process. I’m glad that i took the part of the Hare. I […]
Hello my fireflies! Today is about the great work we put with my friends Melis Açıkkaya and Buse Beyaz. I will link their blogs below, make sure to check out their pages as well! I recommended the movie, “Dead Poets Society” to my friends and they liked the idea. This way we agreed on watching […]
Hello Dear Readers, Nurefşan Çakır and I have created a short story about a party clown named Pennywise. The story had a plot twist: our clown Penny turned out to be a thief.It was a fun project to work on. We enjoyed creating this podcast and shared it with our friends. However, there were some […]
Today, I created an infographic for the first time in my life. I specifically chose this topic because I feel that cyberbullying is becoming normalized, and we tend to adopt this behavior, even though it is morally wrong and has negative effects on mental health. I did a lot of research and found articles that […]
“Rapid changes in information technologies both change and reshape societal structures. This process of rapid change, in turn, brought about new terms and facts” (p. 2). This quote from one of our Turkish colleagues puts forward the realities of technology. Even though accessing information has become easier than ever in history, it has also led […]
Hello fireflies, this blog will be about my learning experiences, discourses, L2 (second language) learning, and many more. I’m always dreaming of traveling around the world, exploring new cultures, and collecting stories along the way. I’m seeking to share my stories with you, so gather around this campfire and join me on this journey. Pinterest. […]
