I don’t know what to say. It was too fast. It’s like yesterday that I wrote my first blog about CALL. I had mentioned about my expectations. I was expecting applications to make our searches faster and easier when we look for information. I wanted to have digital devices instead of papers. I wanted to integrate technology into education. Eventually, when I look throughout the course, I think that they are possible goals to achieve. We had really high expectations from this course, and we have found what we were looking for. Technology belongs to life, and it is a fact now. Education can’t avoid from it anymore. As prospect teachers, we are the ones that should apply what we have learnt so far, to our way of teaching. I really consider to use most of the apps, websites and tools that we have learnt in the course.
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Fiction Is Fiction
I appreciate Elif Shafak’s works, and I believe that she has a different perspective than other Turkish writers in aspect of “fiction” as a field. She is so emotional, but that doesn’t block her professionalism. Since the time I watched her TED Talk, my respect to her as an individual has increased a lot. Her passion to fictionalise the life itself is amazing, and she is so rational about it. She shares the very same idea with the “art is for art” artists, considering her works on literature is all about fiction. In this talk, she complains about misunderstandings and discriminations on the concept of fiction, likening it to “politics”. My favourite quote from the talk would be;
Come, let us be friends for once; let us make life easy on us; let us be lovers and loved ones; the earth shall be left to no one.
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