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   Greetings to everyone. This is not a farewell post, it is a reflection post. I will talk about what this course has contributed to me throughout the semester. Before this course, I thought the place of technology in English teaching was limited to slides and games. However, with the content of the course and the tasks given to us, I realized that this was never the case. For example, it would be a much more attractive and effective teaching technique if a grammar topic was presented using infographics instead of limiting it to a simple slide. Also, I had assumed that the communication skills course would only involve speaking exercises, but I was wrong. Speaking can take many forms, including podcasts and digital stories.     Each task in this course required technological and (in a few assignments) collaborative skills and could be integrated into a specific English lesson. The artificial intelligence and infographic assignments were a clear example of this, I ...

  Hello again. I am here with the last task of the term. It was the task of chatting through Magic School AI with a historical figure of our choice about a topic we were curious about.  Then, we were asked to write a report about the interview and revise the report using AI feedback. I made Socrates my chatmate and satisfied my curiosity about Socratic questioning. It was an interesting experience because even though I knew that the person speaking in front of me was artificial intelligence, it really felt like Socrates had come to life. Even though we are used to the concept of AI today, I have never had a conversation with it before. However, despite this, I did not experience any difficulties in light of the instructions given. Using AI did not force me, on the contrary, it helped me access much more information than I wanted. Just write your question and click the send button! The information is coded into the artificial intelligence in such a way that I feel like I am ac...