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 Well, another semester has come to end. That means we have to say our goodbyes again.  During this course I have sensed some certain strengths and weaknesses. I think one of the most apparent strength of the course is that this particular course is very important for the future generation of language teaching. I genuinely, with all my heart, believe that and I am forever grateful that this course is available to us. A weakness that I can talk about is, unfortunately, the fact that not all of us is fully integrated into the latest technology so some people have to have a really hard time catching. Then again, not all of us come from the same background but I hope in the near future, the future generations will all be able to equally access modern technology no matter the price tag. What I found easy was the fact that we can do our assignments without the need of going to the campus, I think being able to have assignments that we can do remotely at home is such a blessing. The ...

 Greetings! For our last assignment, our professor assigned us to create an AI-integrated teaching material.  AI is literally everywhere nowadays. I personally use it for my language learning activities everyday. It's quite practical and helps me get that particular information that I need whenever I need it.  But no matter how practical and 'good' it is, it is also creating some hardships for certain people. Generative AI taking over people's jobs is something that I have came across quite often on the internet. I don't know whether it will take over 'teaching' or not is something that I am not sure of yet. I hope not. For my assignment, I have paired up with two of my classmates. Deniz Göktepe , Erva Kaptan and I created an AI-integrated teaching material and ASSURE model to go along with it. The hardships that we encountered were finding an AI source that was free. I have only been using ChatGPT and it is free to some extent but other AI tools are not fr...

 Hello! Today, I’m excited to share a groundbreaking concept that took me by surprise, and I’m confident it will amaze you as well. AR and VR integration into lectures. I swear I learn something new and mind boggling every week during my classes with Mrs. Kurt, and technology just keeps amazing me everyday.  During our research and preparation for this project, there were some hardships for sure. My partners Deniz Göktepe and Erva Kaptan also felt that learning block but we overcame it. For instance, we had a problem with the QR code that we put on for the project, we had issues with finding AR/VR integrated videos about our topic since it turned out to be a little 'niche'. Our topic was 'Water Crisis', which shouldn't actually be a 'niche' topic but unfortunately there were limited amount of resources so we were forced to improvise in some shape or form.  In our project we also talked about the climate change which is a hot topic of The European Union and...