Hasan's Blog

  Hello for the last time as I plan to end the blog with this post. I will be talking about the experiences that I had while taking the course.  Before taking the course I always thought technology integration in education was not cost-efficient and not all that necessary, especially in language teaching. Unfortunately, my opinion hasn't changed drastically. I am not the only one to think like this,  Saro Mohammed (2018) says  "Perhaps the best-kept secret of research on ed-tech is the fact that teachers and teaching remain the most important influences on learning. Tech or no tech, effective learning is all about teaching." and I agree, the money and effort spent into technology can be spent on training teachers or creating better class environments (classrooms with fewer students, etc.) Among the tasks, I think the most progressive one was the storytelling one. Storytelling and the style you have when expressing an idea is quite vital. I think the Youtube channel '...

The Internet, unlike any other medium before it, is interactive and accessible to a great deal of people at once. It has the ability to provide endless amounts of information that can be used to motivate students to conduct investigations on any given topic. As an interactive tool for learning, teachers can use the Internet to stimulate creative thought and guide students to develop critical thinking in their "quest" for knowledge. But, how does a teacher tame the nature of the Internet to provide his/her students with a beneficial learning environment? One model approach for this dilemma is called a Web Quest developed in 1995 by Bernie Dodge of San Diego State University. Simply put, a Web Quest is an inquiry-based activity where students are given a task and provided with access to on-line resources to help them complete the task. It is an ideal way to deliver a lesson over the web. Web Quests are discovery learning tools; they are usually used to either begin or finish a ...

 I feel like AR would only be interesting to children, I don't imagine high schoolers being amazed at them showing their papers to a camera and watching a video pop up.  And there isn't a free, easy-to-use one on the internet either. Every app regarding AR feels husky and dull. Regardless I was able to make a really amateur one. I can see myself getting better at creating AR but currently, AR would be quite tough to integrate as classes are online and teachers don't make handouts and use them in class at the moment. The task itself: PDF