ICT in TESOL

AI (artificial intelligence) is really coming in this year! With the development of AI technology, a platform called Chatgpt was released, which flooded the screen and became a trending topic in social media. There is nothing you can't do and it doesn't know.  https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt Introduction Chatgpt is a so powerful tool that you can talk with it about any topic. It can not only provide you the answers but also learn from the conversations with people and generate human-like text based on the input it receive. It's not like a search engine that you have to search the information you need from a mass of data. Your expression will be understood and responded within several seconds. Let's see what Chatgpt introduce itself. English teaching context Like I said above, Chatgpt almost can do everything, which definitely includes offering support and help in English teaching context. Let's start with its response to "what you can do in English language tea

Are you still worrying about how to collaborate and interact with your students? With the development of technology, it becomes more and more convenient to do that by using some online tools. Tricider is one of the powerful online tools that can help you in many ways. https://www.tricider.com/home Introduction Tricider offers an online platform for users to create polls, surveys and brainstorms in any sessions or classrooms with your colleagues or students. It allows users to do many things like raising a question, gathering suggestions and collecting feedback. It is collaborative and interactive for all users that everyone can show his personal opinions that can be seen by all the others in this platform. You can also vote on other's ideas. How to use it in classroom There are a lot things you can do in classroom. I will give you some common activities created in classroom but please do not be constrained by them. Frist, there is no doubt you can use it in a vocabulary lesson, let

Mobile learning has been improved a lot since the COVID-19 because people find that using mobile learning apps can help us learn remotely at any time. Even we are not suffering the "study at home" policy any more, these apps are still useful and beneficial.  Here is one of the apps I want to show you, called "Nearpod".  https://nearpod.com/ Introduction Nearpod is a versatile platform for teachers to create interesting and engaging lessons to their students. There are a lot of things you can do with Nearpod, including designing presentations, video classes and even virtual reality images in your class and creating games and quizzes freely. How to use Like I said, it's not only for online teaching, but also a hybrid learning platform that allows teachers to use it in off-line classes. By designing lessons with VR images and all kinds of videos can greatly attract student's interests and attention. Besides, combining learning content with games will encourage