Last Monday we had the first International Faculty session, which was led by Jesse Gleason. Where we did guided activities regarding the importance of technology.

At the beginning, Jesse presented some benefits and challenges of using AI in the classroom and in teaching. Some of the benefits highlighted were increasing accessibility and efficiency, since having access to AI would make many things easier for both the student and the teacher, another was feedback and evaluation, where this could be a guide to create feedback or help guide an evaluation. Some challenges of AI are that it can be misused especially by students, since it can be used as a help tool and also as an easy way out by plagiarizing in assignments, tests and so on, leaving aside critical thinking.

Jesse then explained the SAMR method, which consists of substitution, argumentation, modification and redefinition, Gleason taught us that this method can help us better understand how to incorporate technology in our classes.

To get more comfortable with the session, we played a game of Bingo that consisted of asking each other questions to get to know each other better with our classmates. Then, to finish, Jesse showed us and explained some very useful tools to guide us and help us in preparing to teach.

One of the most notable tools was Magic School. Jesse explained to us that this AI assists and helps the teacher to plan lessons, design tasks, generate material for the class, etc. The AI ​​tools that she showed us are really useful and can help a lot in helping with teaching strategies.

Personal reflection:

This first session was really interesting and fun. First, because I realized that it is much easier to create dynamic and innovative classes for students, since this helps to teach effectively, making classes more enjoyable for everyone.

AI can be very useful for teachers and students as well, but we have to be careful, since they can be misused, so we have to be careful when using them. Magic School’s AI was the one I liked the most, because it offers a variety of elements that can make the teacher’s job easier, making it easy to design and create material for classes.

The first session was very helpful, they taught us several tools that help the teacher’s job and the benefits and challenges of AI. I am sure and excited that the next session will be just as interesting as this one, and that it will also be very helpful.

Past Simple Activity

Back in the previous semester, I decided to put in an activity we did in Use of English, where we had to work with time structures (past, present and future) but this time I’ll do with past simple.

To start, the teacher will create simple past sentences in Quizizz, which will be incomplete.

In the second part, students will have to form groups to work together and complete the sentences.

The answers will be projected and reviewed as the activity progresses.

Finally, everyone will review how many correct and incorrect answers each group had and then they will correct them together as a whole class.

The link to the activityy :).

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/66f0642b6e084a6bca080ef7?source=quiz_share

English Activity: Imitate a scene from your favorite series/movie. In this activity we had to record our voice and imitate a scene from our favorite series, we uploaded this activity to our blog, so we did use a little technology.

My activity: Record a scene of your choice and upload it to one of the indicated platforms.

Step 1: Each student must choose a scene of any kind, be it works, movies, series, books, etc.

Step 2: Record themselves with the voice recorder.

Step 3: The recording must last at least 3 minutes, said recording can be uploaded to the Flip platform, where their classmates can comment, or to Tiktok, to make a more entertaining activity. In this activity, the intonation and fluency of each student will be evaluated, below I will leave some links that can be helpful so that each one does well!

The first time I saw what the class was about, I thought “this will be kind of easy” but it was actually a challenge because I do know the basics of technology and what it entails but I didn’t know that there were a lot more platforms for education than I already knew so I wasn’t sure how it would go. Now I’m a little more confident about the class and I know a little more about the platforms that exist for education, although some are difficult to use and I realized that when doing the assignments because I had to ask, watch tutorials and explore for myself how they were used, so I personally prefer to stick with the ones I already know and am a little more familiar with, so if you don’t know how to use something, just watch tutorials and it will help you a lot! I promise you, they were very helpful. I want to keep learning about these platforms and improve my skills too, so I will do my best to keep up so that I can understand much better and I will be able to know well how technology is used in education.