For the first time ever at my university, and probably anywhere else in Mexico for that matter a custom made AI app specifically designed for students was used as a class assignment to evaluate the students’ speaking abilities. The App is called SpeakWell, and I designed it using Google’s Firebase…
AI Won’t Kill Creativity, and it Won’t Motivate the Lazy, Either: AI for Writing in the EFL Classroom
Welcome to this last post about using AI in the EFL classroom. I suspect it will be the last for a while. I am ready to move on to more exciting things, not that this wasn’t exciting as all get out…using AI to help my students become better writers, I…
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Making the Grade: AI and Assessment
Couldn’t I leverage this technology to instruct students to write better, or better yet, get the AI to teach my students how to write?
Lesson Planning With AI: Soooo Many Options
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men Gang aft agley- Robert Burns Services mentioned and tested in this article I am one of those teachers that beginning educators and many administrators hate. I am experienced enough (28 years) as a teacher to boil down a lesson plan to about…
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Teaching EFL with AI: Part II.
Of Teddy Bears and Porno Magazines…and Following Instructions This is a continuation of a previous blog article I posted to LinkedIn. That article concerns how I came to the conclusion that AI was here to stay, and how I needed to accept that fact as it pertained to my classes. …
Teaching EFL with AI: Part I.
This is a series of articles I will be contributing to the Linked In community about how I am implementing AI as part of my instructional strategy and content creation activities. Part I covers educating my students to use AI properly. Part II will be how an AI service called…
Too Late to Innovate: On the Impending Demise of Foreign Language Instruction
Sayonara, Japanese! Au Revoir, French! Machts gut, German! It’s all over for the Department of World Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at West Virginia University. The university has cut the aforementioned languages, along with Italian, Russian, and Arabic. Apparently, Spanish and Chinese are being allowed to continue with face to face…
Little Steps to Big Progress
Innovation in education sounds like a really good idea, I mean, how can you not be all for innovation in education, especially when the promise is to make students smarter, teacher’s lives easier, and the subject matter more interesting? Unfortunately, it’s not all positive. There are several missing pieces of…
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