Technology and English with Eda

Hi everyone, today’s post is about a padlet assignment for my Instructional Technologies and Materials Design in ELT course. Me and my 4 friends created a padlet about endangered animals on padlet.com , together. Every member of our group participated and I think the outcome is quite good. Photo taken from here We did our research on the information about endangered animals, causes of why they are endangered, possible solutions and we conducted a survey as well. I found some information about spesific species and shared a graph showing some species’ numbers. Creating a padlet was easy and useful; it helps the users to learn the information in an enjoyable way. You can write anything you want, share photos or videos, change the style of your padlet, etc. I used all of these methods and I didn’t find it difficult at all. I think it could and it should be used in the classrooms, mostly in the language classrooms. The learners, especially young learners, can...

Hello everyone, this is a new post about teaching with technology. I am supposed to write a philosophy statement for a task for my Instrucional Technologies and Materials Design in ELT course. Photo taken from here We are in the 21 st century and we are surrounded by technologic devices; such as telephones, TVs, tablets and most importantly, computers. Most people benefit from these devices for knowledge, when they need information, or they follow the news from all over the world. Some people prefer playing games, and some prefer reading books online. To sum up, technology has a lot of uses for every person and every age group. Photo taken from here Since technology is very beneficial, it should be used for educational purposes in schools too. Its most useful benefit is that, technology can provide many teaching methods. For example, using slides in the classroom or playing online games related to the topic of the lesson could make the lesson more enjoyable. Whe...

Computer-assisted language learning, shortly CALL, is used and still being used for more than 50 years. It is a kind of a new way of learning a foreign language, thanks to developing technology. It has three steps. First of them is Structural CALL , which can be called as Behaviorist CALL too. It was widespread in 1960s and 1970s. Repeated exposure to the same material was believed to be beneficial or even essential to learning. Also the computer was used as a tutor.  (Timeline Created with Microsoft PowerPoint) Photo taken from here The second one is Communicative (or Cognitive) CALL . It was common between 1980s and 1990s in the language classrooms. Grammar was taught implicitly. Computers were used to stimulate discussion, writing or critical thinking. And the final one is Integrative (also known as Sociocognitive or Socioconstructive) CALL . It has been used since 90s. It facilitates a principle focus on the content. Also language learners can communicate ...