A BOOK REVIEW

Hello everyone! Hope you all are well! I'm feeling so good because I'm here to submit my favorite book's review. It is "Ask The Dust" written by John Fante. I really enjoyed while I was writing down my critique; because, you know, it is so beautiful feeling to write about something you love. 
 I actually read this book last year and at that time I just have met the book I have been looking for. It was one of the books that my beloved one suggested me to read. Hence, I'm so grateful for that <3 

To access the wiki entry click here. Hope you enjoy my review! :')

PODCASTING

 When the task which is doing a podcast is given us, I thought I will be pressured insistently. But the moment me and my friend Dila (Here is her blog: click here) started to handle this work, it turned out to be quite easy and even fun. We put forward ideas about the story we had to write and the process was really enjoyable. 

 I would definitely use podcasting with my students in the future because it is fun and memorable. I would want my students to do it since I can make them being involved in the tasks the way I want. I think this method is one of the methods that make easier to reach the learner-centered issue. 

 Here is my podcast: Tale of the Cave

Teaching with Technology

 Today’s subject is teaching with the technology. So, you will read my opinions related to this subject on this post. 

 Before I reflect my ideas, I want to talk about my learning journey with the computers, telephones, smart boards, projections and other stuffs that educational technology offers us. I was born into technology. Before I started the primary school, the internet was avaliable at my home. Thus, it was inevitable for me to utilize the all the technological sources I was able to reach at that time but I was supposed to abstain from them and head towards to the sources which I had better to find at the library. These are what I was expected to do according to my teachers’ perspectives. 

 Now that it is my case, I think over and over to figure out why my teachers treated me like this. It is probably because of the poverty of the technology they were exposed to. They thought it was harmful and not useful. But actually it really is when it does not used properly. 

 As a candidate teachers of the future, we should not escape from the tech but embrace it. It is stated that “educational technology involves applying ideas from various sources to create the best learning environments possible for students. Educational technologists also ask questions such as how a classroom might change or adapt when a computer is integrated into the curriculum” (Hooper & Rieber, 1995, p. 155).

 If we teach the students the way we used to be teached, there will be a problem. Because it is a fact that the effects of the tech is not avoidable and we should learn to mix it up with our teaching methods. When we do so, our educational environment will be healtier, more efficient an even funnier.

References: 

Hooper, S., & Rieber, L. P. (1995). Teaching with technology. In A. C. Ornstein(Ed.), Teaching: Theory into practice, (pp. 154-170). Needham Heights, MA: Allynand Bacon.

Historical Development of CALL

 Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) was the expression agreed upon at the 1983 TESOL convention in a meeting of all interested participants. This term is widely used to refer to the area of technology and second language teaching and learning despite the fact that revisions for the term are suggested regularly (Chapelle, 2001, p. 3).

    Call has improved gradually. In the Behavioristic CALL, the stimulus-response-feedback model is dominant. In Communicative Call, communicative approaches is applied. The last one; in the Integrative Call, multimedia and the electronic communication are the keys for the approach. 

References:

Chapelle, C. A. (2001). Computer applications insecond language acquisition. New York: Cambridge.

21st Century Learning

  With the flow of the time, learning is changed as every other things. The century we exist offers us avantgarde learning themes. They bring about the more student succes.

  Compared to past, students are able to use the languge to communicate more freely and efficiently today. In the past, they were just learning the grammar and then; they were freezing in the real life conversations. Because the big role belonged to the teacher in the classroom and students' various characters, learning styles and also individual needs were not being considered.

  Every person means a new person; this is what the 21st century learning accepts. Thus, it carries out tasks by applying different instructions in terms of the variabilty in the students. Also, the classrooms are learner-centered now. Communication and collaboration have a big role to enhance success by enabling to use the language beyond the classroom.

  The students in the century we live are more creative, they negotiate the meaning and they know how to do the critical thinking thanks to the 21th century learning.

Welcome everyone! Glad you are here!

  If you are looking for up-to-date techniques, informations and any kind of things related to 21th century learning and computer-assisted language learning, you are in the right place.
  In our educational journey, I will share new data, knowledge and informative instructions that you can benefit from. Let's keep up with the century!