Incorporation of content created with AI

The content created in classes and outside of classes was content that excited me, I especially felt a lot of excitement creating my own funko since I had no idea how they were created and I never imagined it would be so easy. I enjoyed it so much that I shared some of the knowledge acquired in classes with friends. Another thing that was impactful was how to create classes easily and quickly. The courses in which I acquired some certificates were very helpful and complemented the previous knowledge in classes. Definitely the use of artificial intelligence has been something extremely interesting in this course.

Funko created with Microsoft Designer

Lesson Plan generate by AI created in Copilot.

 Usted

Could you please create a lesson plan about the simple past for teenagers, including a warm-up activity related to the topic, a detailed and short explanation of the topic, with 3 affirmative 3 negative examples and 3 interrogative examples, a practice activity about it, and a speaking activity as wrap-up? Thank you for your help!

Copilot

Certainly! Let’s create an engaging lesson plan on the simple past tense for teenagers. Here’s a step-by-step breakdown:

Lesson Plan: Simple Past Tense

1. Warm-up Activity: “Past Tense Memory Game”

• Divide students into pairs or small groups.

• Prepare cards with past tense verbs (both regular and irregular) written on them.

• Students take turns flipping over two cards, trying to match the base form with its past tense.

• Encourage them to use the correct pronunciation as they reveal the cards.

• Example: “play” matches with “played.”

2. Explanation of Simple Past Tense

Objective: To understand how to talk about past events or states.

Definition: The simple past tense is used to describe actions or situations that happened and finished in the past.

Form:

Regular verbs: Add “-ed” to the base form (e.g., “start” → “started”).

Irregular verbs: Learn specific forms (e.g., “go” → “went,” “have” → “had”).

Examples:

Affirmative:

She visited her grandparents last weekend.

They watched a movie yesterday.

We played soccer after school.

Negative:

He didn’t eat breakfast this morning.

They didn’t study for the test.

She didn’t call me last night.

Interrogative:

Did you finish your homework?

Did they go to the party?

Did he visit the museum?

3. Practice Activity: “Past Tense Story”

• Provide students with a short story in the present tense.

• Ask them to rewrite the story in the simple past tense.

• Encourage creativity and accuracy.

• Share and discuss their revised stories in pairs or as a class.

4. Speaking Activity: “My Memorable Moment”

• Students take turns sharing a memorable moment from their past.

• They should use the simple past tense to describe the event.

• Encourage questions and follow-up discussions.

• Example prompts: “Tell us about a trip you took,” “Describe a special celebration,” etc.

5. Wrap-up and Reflection

• Discuss the importance of using the correct past tense in storytelling.

• Ask students to summarize what they’ve learned.

• Remind them to practice using the simple past tense in their daily conversations.

Remember, learning a new tense takes practice, so encourage students to use it whenever they can! 🌟

Badgeds I achived using AI tools that helped me to increase my knowledge in this course.

Conclusion and Key Learnings

 How will the knowledge gained from this module influence your teaching methods?

In this first module, I learned many things that will help me create classes that are different from traditional ones, and use different applications to keep my students motivated. This will help me in a significant way in the classroom because participatory, dynamic and innovative classes will be created and artificial intelligence will be used. This is to be able to take advantage of the tools that AI offers me to create quality classes and content.

In conclusion, the knowledge acquired during this time was of utmost importance as a future English teacher to be able to apply it with my students and provide them with teaching that is different from the traditional one.

Can you think of a specific lesson or activity where you could apply what you’ve learned?

An activity that I could apply would be to assign presentations on any specific topic and ask my students to work on their presentations using Nearpod or artificial intelligence tools, adding quizzes, videos and slides to measure their knowledge with AI and also helping them to create interactive and innovative classes.

Development (Reflection on Key Concepts)

What were the most important concepts you learned in this module?

PROMPT DESIGN AND PROMPT ENGINEERING

What is a Prompt?

A prompt usually involves instructions and context passed to a LLM to achieve a desired task.

What is the difference?

Prompt Design:

It refers to the proocess of creating prompts that elicit the desired response from a language

model.

Prompt Engineering:

It is the practice of developing and optimizing prompts to efficiently use language models for

a variety of applications.

DESIGN THINKING 

Well, the most important concepts I learned in this module is Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that integrates the needs of people , the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success.
In other words, it involves a structured process for generating and developing ideas, often iteratively, to create solutions that are both feasible and desirable. 
Design Thinking is a methodology aimed at generating solutions from a challenge. It is divided into five phases: Empathy, Definition, Ideation, Prototyping and Validation. Once the process is finished, you can return to any of the phases from which to start a new iteration.
Stages in a Design Thinking process
Empathize
The goal of this phase is to identify relevant wants and needs for the user.
Define
Second stage of the process. In it, we organize all the information collected to identify all the areas of opportunity from which we can offer relevant solutions to the desires and needs of the user.
Ideate
Once the challenge has been established (which can also be reformulated or refined) we move on to the design part of the solution. In this part of the process, the first phase we will go through will be ideating. In the Ideate phase, or Ideation, it is about giving the greatest number of ideas possible that respond to the challenge posed.
Prototype
The prototyping phase is the one in which we give shape to ideas, make them tangible. That way, we can show them to the user, who can give us feedback and say to what extent the solution we are designing for them fits their needs or desires.
Validation or test
It is the moment in which we show our solution prototype to the archetype for which we are designing. The validation phase requires preparation. We will have to establish the objectives, build the guide and, finally, show the user our solution.
In this phase, it is important that we understand that we are not selling. It is about learning from user feedback to later make a new improved version of our solution.
Design Thinking is a user-centered methodology. And action-oriented. The objective of which is to generate solutions according to problems detected in a certain framework.

How did these concepts challenge your previous understanding of English

language teaching?

I believe that technology has played and is recently playing a very important role in society since everything around us is based on electronic devices. Regarding education, I consider that everything had been different until the pandemic arrived, since many things had to be modified to try to “lead a normal life” . At first it was difficult since I did not know how to handle some applications in which teachers assigned homework or we received classes. I think my biggest challenge was becoming familiar with the different tools but then I realized that it was a very fun and innovative way to give and receive classes since they were different methods but captured the students' attention. We were forced to use different methods to continue with classes but the advantage is that different methods and advances that artificial intelligence offers us were discovered. Nowadays we not only continue with the applications we started but also different technological methods are being implemented within the classroom.

How do you plan to apply these concepts in your future teaching?

AI can have a great positive impact for education, especially because they are effective in freeing us from administrative and repetitive tasks, and instead give teachers and students more time and energy for more important activities.

The way in which I would like to apply these concepts in my future teaching is

Automate administrative tasks 

since university professors spend a lot of time grading exams and assignments . AI can be of great help by making this work much faster and can even give recommendations to solve possible learning problems for class topics.  

Nowadays it is very easy for technology to review multiple choice exams, and it is also getting closer to grading written answers as well .  

These functions free up teachers' work time , time that can be used for individual tutoring with students, for example 

Tutoring and support outside the classroom 

There are increasingly more tools to support learning outside of classes, but in coordination with the teacher's program and methods. Many students require additional tutoring , which can be expensive and may conflict with the rest of the course schedule.  

The tools with AI will make the study time at home coordinated with the entire course and according to the needs of each student.  

INTRODUCTION

 

This learning blog-reflection is a systematic approach that aims to provide an overview of the module and some initial reflections and expectations throughout this course with the aim of understanding the advances that AI has made during this time and how the technology facilitates the life of the human being. But also, with the aim of showing how artificial intelligence, or AI, is the technology that allows computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities. In order to put into practice what was learned during this time in the classroom to create more interactive, creative classes with a much shorter time range by applying artificial intelligence in education.