MY ADVENTURE

Hello my followers...😃😃This post is about a reflection on my teaching with technology philosophy statement. 

Before I wrote this post, I read my older post about teaching with technology and I tried to reflect back on it.

While writing my older post, I used to believe the technology was an indispensable part of our teaching. Today, I believe that technology is not only important for teaching but also is crucial for learning. In other words, teachers should integrate technology into teaching and students should utilize technology to improve their learning process, so technology is significant for both teachers and learners. In addition to this, teachers and students should have a purpose while using technology. 

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Specifically, teachers should use technology appropriately to their pedagogy. Otherwise, using technology doesn't make any sense. 

Now I want to talk about the course. When I see the syllabus of our course, I was really surprised because we were supposed to create a blog and write posts about different topics. I felt overwhelmed at the beginning of the term. Then, our teacher, Gökçe Kurt (If you want to learn more about her, you can click here and visit her blog😉) informed us about each topic and gave us an opportunity to search on the internet. 

I really enjoyed the course, and I discovered my learning process. Sometimes, I confronted adversities. For example, while doing the digital story assignment, I and my groupmate created our story, but we couldn't determine the appropriate tool to create our digital story. We searched on the internet, discovered different tools, but some of them didn't allow us to give a voice to a character. Moreover, we asked our friends and learned some tools. Finally, we used one of them in our digital story so I think that this course taught us how to learn 21 st century skills. Furthermore, I discovered a great number of Web 2.0 tools, I learned the importance of wiki projects and so on.

During the course of the term, I tried to do my best. I submitted all my assignments before the due date, embedded all the links successfully 😃, tried to be creative, and adhered to the instructions of the teacher.

I'm really content with the result. Also, I know that I learned a lot and gained awareness of my own thoughts about teaching English. Thanks to Gökçe Kurt, I improved my technology skills and started to build my pedagogy. 

Now, I know that teachers are the facilitators in the classroom and they should be aware of their pedagogy and technology knowledge. Teachers should constantly upgrade themselves and always be ready to implement new developments in the classroom. I feel confident about designing materials for any students of different ages. 

Taken here.

This is not an end of my story, my adventure is starting now.😃 I'm going to continue to share posts about different topics related to ELT because I like blogging.

See you soon...😉