Creating A Podcast: Experiencing A Vox-Pop For The First Time!

Hello my future colleagues, today I am going to share my podcast experience with you.

We have a created a Vox-Pop with my friend. It is a filmed, intercept interview with members of the public. We asked 10 people the question if they had a chance to switch their lives with a celebrity, who would that person be and why. We got the same two answers from the people we have interviewed and all of the answers were creative. We also got a funny answer saying that the reason is that her husband is very handsome. The answers were related with the interviewers’ dreams, for example, one of the interviewers said that he wants to switch his life with a singer and the reason was him being a good musician, the interviewer’s goal is to become a musician in the future too.

pic from: https://www.wired.com/story/best-podcast-and-livestream-gear/

Creating a podcast was a fun task, especially hearing the answers and discussing them with our friends. I had some difficulties while I was putting together the voice records because I haven’t created a podcast before. But it got easier as I got used to the app.

I would give the same task to my students in the future because it was fun creating a podcast and it was a whole new experience for me. Also students can integrate with technology more which is important for 21st century learners.

Here is our podcast and you can visit my friend’s blog from here. See you all!

Creating A KWL Chart: Using Padlet For The First Time

Hello my future colleagues, today I am going to tell you about my Padlet experience.

We made a group of four with our friends and chose a topic together. We discussed and analyzed the problem using a KWL Chart. We chose “bullying at schools” as our topic. All the members of the group what they know, what they want to know, and what they learned about the topic one by one. We all mentioned three ideas at least.

I used Padlet for the first time. It was a fun experience for me to have it together with my friends. I had a hard time understanding how the website works at first, but then I saw that it is an easy Website to use and it was customizable, which I like the most.

pic from: https://www.uio.no/english/services/it/news/2021/padlet-terminated.html

Websites like Padlet are the mostly used websites in the 21st century and since we are the Gen Z Teachers, we are going to use them a lot too. Teaching and education strongly connect with each other in the 21st century as we all know. Using Padlet helped me a lot to develop my 21st century teaching skills and I am sure that it is going to be helpful for me when I become a teacher.

Our group’s other members were Doğa Şarlayan, Şevval Yılmaz and Ayşe Rümeysa Şahin. You can visit our Padlet here if you want, and you can also visit Ayşe’s, Şevval’s and Doğa’s blogs.

Have you ever used Padlet before? I am curious about your experiences as well. See you all!

Film Review on Wiki: Being a Reviewer For The First Time!

Hello my future colleagues, I became a film reviewer for the first time and today I am going to talk about my Wiki experience.

We made a film review on Twilight with my friend Ayşe Rümeysa Şahin for the university magazine. We started with choosing a movie, and we chose the movie that we were both huge fan of when we were teenagers. We commented on Twilight and reviewed it, made an analysis on our Wiki page as you can see. We worked together while doing this, first discussed our ideas about the film and then we wrote them down. We shared our review and then we looked for our other friends’ reviews and commented on them. I have found many films and decided the ones that I think they are worth watching depending on my friends’ comments. We also had fun just reading the comments. Also, I used Wiki for the first time but it was not too hard for me, I think its design is kind of similar to the blog we are currently on. It was a fun experience for me reviewing a film and doing it together with my friends, we were able to comment on each other’s posts and it made the experience funnier.

our movie review is right here!

I will also share my friend Ayşe’s blog so that you can read about her experience too.

Have your ever reviewed a film or used Wiki? I am curious about your comments and I want to listen to your experiences as well. See you all!

Gen Z - 21st Century Learners & Technology

Hello my future colleagues, today we will be discussing about 21st century learning & technology. 

Think about your parents. Although you have a lot in common, you also have many differences with them, and by generalizing, I can say that most of these differences are due to generational differences. Each generation's people have different features and skills, so their learning methods are different from each other. Us future teachers have to keep up with recent methods and techniques while studying with our students and while doing this, technology will be our biggest helper and support.

pic from: https://elearningindustry.com/technology-benefits-learning

So what is 21st century learning? We can briefly say that it is a learning model which is student-centered. Learners play the bigger role in the 21st century learning. There are some skills that a 21st century learner must have. Some of these skills are critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, digital literacy, creativity and having a great communication with others. Besides the learner, the teacher must have some features too. 21^st century learning features are also important for language teaching since language learning also requires communication skills. Technology is greatly integrated in education in 21^st century. Both teacher and students must use technology well. It is also important to use technology in classroom to draw students’ attention and also it will be much more easier for students to understand the lesson.

You can share your ideas and we can discuss about them in the comments. See you all!

Welcome!

Hello my future colleagues, welcome to my blog for gen z teachers. I am Zeynep and I am an English Language Teaching student in Marmara University. I have had some teaching experiences before and now as I am learning more about languages and teaching, I hope I will have more experiences as a teacher. I created this blog to share my process and future teaching experiences with you. We can discuss problems that gen z teachers are dealing with, share our experiences, or new techniques and technologies about teaching and education together.