AI IS TAKING OVER!!!!!


    Hello, every being with a heartbeat! How are you doing? I am doing as well as possible and it will work out.

    Today I will be talking about AI as the title suggests. And, no, AI is not taking over......yet. Here I will explain how to integrate AI into our teaching.

Firstly, let's talk about AI. AI stands for artificial intelligence and according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it is software designed to imitate aspects of intelligent human behavior. Because it is designed to mimic human acts and thoughts, people are afraid that they will be bamboozled by the products of AI and thus be seized and controlled by it. Even though that is a possibility it seems to be a long shot. However, its impact is undeniable, hence, we have to start adjusting our lives accordingly, which indicates education as well. 


    For this piece of work, I worked with Nilgün Soysever, one of my best friends. We created a lesson plan integrated with AI. We chose to make a speaking lesson and used Praktika as the AI. This is an AI application that is made for language learning. In the app you can select what languages you know, which language you want to learn, your preferred topics of conversation, and even how your personalized AI avatar looks to make you feel more comfortable while using the app. The worksheet requires a lot of speaking and discussing that the teacher will be directing, which is why it seems short. However, since they will be invested in the topics I believe the students will be attentive. We used Canva for this work as well, thanks to its versatility and wide variety of options for everything.

You can see our worksheet here.

Thank you for reading so far. I'll see you in the next post. Have a good rest of your day, beings with a heartbeat.