Nehir's Educational Technology Blog

Hey everyone welcome to my blog again 🫶🏻  This week we were tasked with preparing an activity called “flipped classroom.” The term "flipped classroom" refers to an educational approach in which conventional teaching techniques are inverted or "flipped". In this method the students get prior knowledge about the topic in their regular classes. After that they engage with instructional content such as video lectures. Classroom time is used for interactive discussions and activities. With this method teachers can focus on students’ individual needs without taking too much of the classroom time. Flipped classrooms also make it possible for students to enhance their self-learning skills. In my opinion, this method is very beneficial for both the students and the teachers.  We were assigned to create a flipped teaching material for an EFL classroom. Our target audience was 5th grade students. Together with my group friends Çağla and Gülce , we chose the topic called Mo...

   Hello everyone, it's me again. I miss my blog so much. This time, my friend Defne and I were assigned to prepare a corpus-based teaching material. The target audience of the activity we prepared is EFL students in high school. In this regard, we chose a topic where we explain the difference between 'Any and Some'. We did research on this topic and decided which exercises to prepare.  Then we created the design from the Canva.   At first, they will discuss what the students know about this subject, then they will write it down in the table we prepared, and at the end, they will reinforce what they have learned by doing the fill-in-the-blank and true-false activities we prepared. When students do this exercise, it is aimed for them to clearly learn the difference between Some and Any.  While preparing the activities, we took into account the age group of high school students and planned activities at a level that they can learn. At the same time we  should...