Pilar Capaul

Many of us are familiar with using ChatGPT to create engaging grammar activities, design images using the new vocabulary we’re working on with our students and save time marking writing. Today, I’d like to introduce a framework that has helped me fully integrate AI into content teaching, one that goes beyond activity creation, using Notebook LM, a digital platform by Google that helps organise, analyse and interact with information to support learning and productivity. Because context is everything in teaching, let’s imagine we’re teaching a unit on environmental management and our lesson is focused on biomes. Instead of giving a...

We all seem to have come to terms with the existence of AI in the world and, especially, in the lives of our students, and we’re finding more and more ways to make the most out of it in our field: language teaching and learning. By ‘coming to terms with it’ I mean that we’ve accepted the fact that students are drawn to using it to alleviate the ‘burden’ of homework, research and studying, and so it seems like the goal now is to find ways to use it in the classroom as a tool, just like the internet...

The article offers clear steps to take as you start to use AI to create materials, provide texts, recycle vocabulary and other activities.