An English Learner's Notes

     Hello everyone! We're back together with an entertaining and different task. We prepared a flipped teaching video. Let me explain what the flipped classroom approach is. In a flipped classroom, there is a strategic swap of lectures and homework. While traditional methods are based on lecturing in class time and giving homework to do at home, the flipped classroom approach does the opposite. In this approach, students watch the lessons at home Netflix-style, and practice in the classroom. To adapt to the changing world, educators find this method very useful and fun. Students are able to see whether or not they completely understand and are capable of putting theory into real life. If there is a question they need to ask their teacher, they can do it right away and this is a huge plus for this method. There are also some disadvantages such as access to technology. To be able to successfully apply this method, all students need to have access to technology outside the ...

Since the beginning of the 21st century, technology has entered our lives faster than a speeding bullet. It inevitably caused and keeps causing changes in every aspect of life.Thus, the best way to be prepared for those changes is to adjust our education system accordingly. It can be generally agreed that education in our time is more complex than it was before. Because people need different skills to lead their lives which can basically be summarized as 4C (Critical thinking, communication, creativity, collaboration). For a better carrier, education is now being built on these skills from elemantary to highschool.  With technology integrated classrooms and appropriate curriculum, students are easily and unconsciously adapted to 4C. Teachers have an important role in acquisition of 21st century skills. With the homeworks, technology integrated tasks and in-class activities they apply, students automatically become 21st century’s successful learners.       ...