#13 | AI in ELT

   Hello everyone!

 

   Today we are going to talk about the integration of AI in language classrooms.

   I’m sure you are familiar with AI, as it has become impossible to ignore. Any kind of industry that you can think of started to use AI to keep up with today's needs. We see it as a digital assistant that helps us to prepare our shopping lists, as a tool to recommend more music that we might like, and as a friend that we can communicate with from time to time. AI is everywhere, even when you are not aware. So, why don’t we use it for educational purposes too? Before making students aware of it, we have to educate them about the ethical use of AI and its possibilities to facilitate language learning. AI can offer many options to make itself useful in the classroom environment, such as a feedback generator, a summarizer, a person to practice speaking, etc.

   Luckily, I and my friends were able to experience preparing AI-integrated materials with this task.

   Eylül, İlayda, and I prepared our material on Canva. Our activity starts with matching the pictures and names of the natural disasters to activate students’ background knowledge about the topic. For the second activity, we want students to choose one of the disasters and find two solutions to prevent it or reduce the damage it causes. Then, we wrote the instructions about how to use MagicSchool AI for students to get information about the disaster they chose and write the prompt they were given on the “Informational Texts” tool. After students get the text, they are going to use it in another tool called “Quiz Me!” to see their comprehension of it. For our last activity, students are in the shoes of the captain of an emergency team, and they have to inform their team before they arrive through a text message about the disaster itself and its causes and effects on the people using the knowledge they gain through AI-generated texts. This is our material and lesson plan.

   Using MagicSchool AI was really fun because we became aware of the possibilities of the appropriate AI use in the classroom. As teacher candidates, we should not fall behind the current trends.

 

   See you in the next post!