discussions and reflections

PLE is a combination of tools that make up individualized resources and approach to learning. It is centered around a person's efforts to learn. When this environment is designed well, it will connect you to the people and information that are useful for you. It's a personal resource for answers to questions, supporting context for ideas. Everyone is unique and has a unique mind, and learning works best when everyone uses special ways to learn, to get information. Unfortunately teachers can't show a personal approach to every student in class, they present information to an entire class, so maximize learning process you should create your own elements of learning and to take control of of it in order to make it work for you. If a student is working on a project and does research, he is visiting lots of websites, so he can choose to use a bookmarking tool, such as Diigo, to help him efficiently retrieve pieces of information. He can also use the audio recorder on his phone t...

Chatbots are programmed the way they only know what they are taught, so they cannot understand the context of humans and interact with them in natural conversational language. I don't think a chatbot can be an appropriate partner to practice a language, though in reading books for children it can be useful. When I was interacting with George I noticed that he replies to the last sentence only, giving inadequate and unsufficient answers, it avoids answering through asking questions. These are all disadvantages that the science tends to solve. A chatbot can be used in ESL classrooms for fun practice, but they are not useful for developing any language skill. Chatbots are programmed around pattern matching, they search for key words to give responses. Practicing chatbots with advanced learners will be fun, but practicing AI(artificial intelligence) with learners having lower proficiency may be helpful a little. A learner can interact with it at home and bring interactions to the clas...

Mobile devices can be used in a variety of ways to support instruction. They offer an efficient way for Ss to work with language, they support peer collaboration. Having Ss use their own devices means they are working in a familiar context and are able to continue to use the devices outside the classroom. Ss' use of mobile devices for doing the tasks are useful, but they are more productive for learning when it's a group or class discussions generated by the activity. So I have chosen some activities that are interesting and interactive. Ask your Ss to take pictures of their favourite room in the house using camera feature. They present the pictures to the class, share them with the group, describe it and say why it is their favourite(6th form in a secodary Armenian school). Practicing numbers(from 1 to 100) using calculator. there is no need to have to write them all down on the board. Ask the Ss to use the calculator function in their phones. Give a student two numbers to...