21st Century Learning

 Hello My Dear Readers ! Welcome back to my blog page.  As you see from the title, we are getting out of our usual and boring classrooms and heading to a complete different country... through Technology!  Today, I want to talk about AR and VR technology a little. Augmented Reality (AR) enables us to add digital elemants such as, images, texts or 3D objects. AR gives us a virtual reality through bunch of technological devices without replacing physical environment completly. We can think of many examples in real life, such as using navigations to find a location, or posting pictures with instagram filters.  On the other hand, Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that creates a total digital environment and places user in that environment. This can be very interactive, it allows users freedom, such as looking around, moving themselves, or manipulate objects as they like. It is a very good application to the classroom because it is authentic and it immerses students' at...

 Hello Everyone !  I am here again to tell you about a way different teaching method that I have not mentioned before in this blog.  That is, Flipped Classroom Approach. It basically reverses the traditional foreign language teaching methods. Students learn the new content, vocabulary and structures at home mostly via videos or audios. So that, the classroom time can be used for active practice and interaction. For language classes, it is a very impressive method to increase the time for speaking and communicative activites which we need the most in order to achieve proficiency.  One advantage is that students come prepared so the lesson is more engaging and interesting. A disadvantage can be when a student does not complete the tasks, he/she might fall behind very easily.  For our project, we have prepared a short flipped lesson. We have aimed to teach 8 vocabulary items chosen from 5th Grade English book from the unit 7. Instead of isolated vocabulary, we want...