MEILE (III) INGLÉS COMO LENGUA EXTRANJERA (ILE) SEC.01 25/09/2026

Introduction to the English as a Foreign Language master's course with teacher and student presentations, course overview, and study tips.

Key Takeaways

Starting a master's in English as a Foreign Language involves managing expectations and emotional pressure.
Technology and virtual tools are integral to the course design and evaluation.
Student backgrounds are diverse, enriching the learning experience through shared perspectives.
Consistent study planning and active participation are crucial for success.
The course emphasizes practical communication skills and peer collaboration.

What the video covers

Introduction to the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) master's course by teacher Analise Milano.
Teacher shares her background, experience, and teaching philosophy focused on ESP and technology integration.
Students introduce themselves, sharing their education, work experience, and motivations for joining the master's program.
Course structure, content, and evaluation methods are explained with emphasis on virtual learning and meaningful engagement.
Discussion on managing emotional pressure and expectations as new master's students in the EFL field.
Encouragement to use English actively while allowing Spanish as a support tool for understanding.
Overview of weekly activities, assignments, and the importance of planning daily study.
Focus on communication skills development, especially reading comprehension, as part of the instructional design.
Teacher emphasizes collaboration, peer feedback, and continuous learning throughout the course.
Closing remarks include tips for success and encouragement to enjoy the learning journey.

Chapters

What is the main focus of the English as a Foreign Language master's course?

The course focuses on teaching English as a foreign language with an emphasis on practical communication skills, ESP, and adapting teaching strategies to the Venezuelan context.

How does the teacher support students in managing pressure during the course?

The teacher encourages students to stay calm, enjoy the learning process, and understand that perfection is not expected at the start, emphasizing a supportive and relaxed approach.

What role does technology play in this master's program?

Technology is integrated into teaching and evaluation methods to create meaningful virtual learning experiences, reflecting current trends and making the course interactive and relevant.

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Excellent. Thank you so much. Okay. Good. Good evening, guys. This is a pleasure for me to start today and be your teacher for the first time. You're going to have your first subject for the specialty. In this case, it is English as a foreign language.

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During this subject, you are going to have a very nice compilation of the orical frameworks. You're going to have some adaptations to our context in Venezuela.

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And the idea is for this to be an introduction as well as a way for you to, you know, refresh some knowledge that is useful and very important for you for the next steps in the master.

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It's going to be a wild ride called, yeah, wild ride. A roller coaster maybe because it's going to be the first time for you to start doing some activities that are related to your career itself. And probably you're going to be like, "Oh my goodness, I feel the pressure to be like perfect or I have to be outstanding. I'm supposed to know everything about English because I'm an English teacher."

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And I know this sometimes creates a very hard emotional backlash for the students. But I want to start by saying that you have to keep calm. This is just the first step. Let's relax. Let's enjoy the ride. And I'm here, of course, to be your trainer, your teacher as an example that we can do this. Okay? So I'm going to be your guide during this time. Let me turn my slides and we're going to start for today.

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Okay, I think everyone is seeing now. Let me move here the toolbar. Open the menu a little bit.

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Okay. So, English as a foreign language subject. Today's agenda is going to have the first part, which is going to be a welcoming. We have a presentation, myself, well, of yourself. I want to know you.

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Where do you come from? What are your expectations? What is your background in this career? Then we are going to talk about the subject itself. We are going to have a little talk about what is the plan, content, and evaluation. I suppose you already have checked the platform, but we are going to have a small recalling here and I'm going to try to explain to you what are the key points for each evaluation or what are the things that you should pay attention to so you submit a very nice and concise complete assignment. And for class, we're going to have our closure. We talk about expectations and I'm going to give you some tips for the rest of the subject. So let's start.

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So let's start introducing ourselves. My name is Analise Milano. If you check on the platform, you would know that I've been a teacher here in the Franciscan for more than 15 years. My goodness, I can't believe it. When I was checking, oh my goodness, I felt like it was yesterday I started. Now with 15 years.

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I got two master's degrees. The first one is in educational management and the second one is in learning and teaching foreign languages.

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It was recent. I graduated from the universities. So I'm very proud of being part of the team that teaches in this master because I know what other universities are doing and I know that we can do better. So it's very nice. I work here in the university and also have some freelance work as a consultant and as a postgraduate teacher for the university. Let's say like my specialty, but I have been focusing a lot on teaching ESP, which is my strong point and my research points too. I focus a lot on this because this is where I've been working a lot, but of course teaching languages is a journey. I think that it doesn't matter if you have been teaching for 15 years ESP. When you are passionate about teaching languages, everything develops in a way that you learn many things about everything.

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Okay. Things I like. I like languages, culture, traveling, movies, and technology. This is my passion. I love everything that comes to technology, the new things, what are the trends in teaching, and you are going to see that I try to apply everything to my classes and to my evaluation. My strategies for evaluation are also focusing on that because we are in a virtual reality. We are connecting through the internet and I try to make the experience real and meaningful for my students. So now I would like you to introduce yourself. Say your name, your age. I didn't say my age. I'm 36 years old. Your degree if you graduated from Miranda or if you come from any other university.

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Where are you working right now? And what are the things that you like? Let's start with Lisana.

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Hi everyone. My name is Lisa Cordero. I am from Koro. I graduated from Francisco Miranda University. I also have a master's in reading and writing.

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But that was a long time ago. 2017. Yes. Wow. I am currently working as a freelance teacher. So, I don't have a formal job. I just have students who want to learn English.

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And that's what I do. What are the things that I like? Well, my passion, and that was part of the reason why I started this master's, is because I like to explore new ways or better ways to teach English. Most of my students, if not all of them, live in the United States and they need to learn English as soon as possible because they are already working or studying. I have some kids who go to school and don't speak English and they need to speak English as soon as possible. So my passion is creating materials and strategies that help them improve faster and enjoy the experience because not everybody enjoys learning, studying, practicing. So I try to make it easy and fun for them.

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I am also working. I am also a medical interpreter. I am not currently working as a medical interpreter, but I worked for like three years as a medical interpreter and I worked in a platform that interpreters can use to learn interpreting vocabulary, the tools that you need as a medical interpreter. And right now I am also working on an app that students can use to practice conversation with easy dialogue. So if someone who doesn't know any English can start practicing with easy dialogues and that's what I'm doing right now. I teach and I also create content for that platform.

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And well, I am really happy to be part of this master's because I want to, I was talking to one of my classmates and I was telling them that one of the reasons why I enjoy it is because I want to see what other teachers are doing so I can learn from others and that's basically it. Thank you.

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Oh, you're welcome. Nice to meet you, Lisa. This is Venezuelan background. Oriana. Hello everyone. How are you today? My name is Ariana and I'm 13 years old.

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I graduated in 2019 from Francisco Miranda University. Actually, I'm working in UNF University as a teacher in the subject English for a specific purpose for engineering students in UNF in Punto Fijo city.

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I have been working with all the levels of education such as preschool, high school, school, everything. And now I decided to study this master's because I want to make things better in the learning of this important second language in Venezuela as a teacher. Yeah, to improve those important aspects in that way to improve students, to motivate and everything.

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Thank you. Okay. Armenia. Hello. Hi. My name is Arminia and I live in Koro and I am 40 years old and I graduated at the University de Miranda and now I am working at the University Alonso here.

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Now I'm giving class to the students of engineering. My content and my subject is instrumental English and I have been working with children also. I like to work with children and I have been working with teenagers and adults with different kinds of people. Thank you. A pleasure to meet you.

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Okay, hello. Hi. Hi. Well, and about me, well, I hope everyone's doing well today. About my name is Emanuel Matos. I'm 26 years old and I got a degree as a businessman, like business administration focused in

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Wait a second. Okay. I got a degree as a business administration focused in IT.

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and um and that's what I do. What are the things that I like um well my passion and that was part of the reason why I started this masters is because I like to explore new ways or better ways to teach English. Um, most

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of my students, if not all of them, live in the United States and they need to learn English as soon as possible because they already working or um or studying. I I have some kids who go to school and don't speak English and they

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need to speak English as soon as possible. So my passion is creating materials and strategies that help them um improve faster and enjoy the experience because not everybody enjoys man learning, studying, practicing. So I try to make it easy and and and fun for

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them. H I am also working I I am also a medical interpreter. I am not currently working as a medical interpreter but I worked for like three years as a medical interpreter and uh I worked in a platform

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that interpreters can use to learn interpreting vocabulary the tools that you need as a medical interpreter. And right now I am also working on an app that students can use to practice conversation um with easy dialogue. So if you if if I

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mean someone who who doesn't know any English can start practicing with easy dialogues and and that's what I'm doing right now. I I teach and I also create content for that platform.

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And um and well I am really happy to be part of this masters because I want to I was talking to one of my classmates and I was uh telling them that one of the reasons why I enjoy is because I want to

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see what other teachers are doing and so I can you know learn from from others and and that's basically it. Thank you.

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Oh, you're welcome. Nice to meet you, Lisa. This is Vestinian background. Oriana. Hello everyone. How are you today? My name is Ariana and I'm 13 years old. H I graduate in in 2019 in Francisco Miranda University 2. Actually I'm working in

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UNF University as a teacher in the subject in English for a specific purpose in engineer students in UNF in Punto Fjo city.

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I have been working uh with all the levels of education uh such as preschool, high school, school, everything everything. And now I I decide to study this mastery because I want to make things better in in the learning of this important second

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language in Venezuela as a teacher. Yeah to improve those important aspects in in that way to improve students to motivate and everything.

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Thank you. Okay. Armenia. Hello. Hi. My name is Arminia and I live in Koro and I am 40 years old and I graduate at the university de Miranda and now I am working at the University Alonso here in

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now I'm giving class to there at the students of engineering. Um a content and my subject is uh instrumental English and I had been uh working with children also. I I like to to work with children and I had been working with teenagers

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and adult uh with different uh kind of people. Thank you. A pleasure to meet you.

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Okay, hello. Hi. Hi. Well, and about me, well, I hope everyone's doing well today. about um my name is Emanuel Matos. I'm 26 years old and I got a degree as um business man um like business administration focus in

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Wait a second. Okay. I got a degree as a um yeah business administration f focus in IT or technology could I say informatic is known in Spanish. So that's that's my degree. I'm passionate about teaching English. So I've been

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teaching English for more than three years now. I have been teaching English for like online and I am trying to set up an academy. So that I'm working on it right now.

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Okay. And yeah, as I mentioned, I feel passionate about this and I was the one that uh Louisiana was talking about. We were talking about like improving how to teach uh how to know more what other um teachers are doing and like get updated

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on that. As uh my job right now I'm working online for three years now as well as an translator. I'm in Spanish and English translator and in the trucking industry. I'm working for Americans as well and yeah that has been

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uh one of my experiences uh could I say or what that's my experience I like uh many things like how um people learn it's not only let's say English because what we learn uh to what we learn yeah

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to learn English it could be used for learning many things at the same time.

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So that's right. Yeah, that's what I really like about how brain works as well. How we could memorize techniques, um, repetition, memorization. I really like that. So those are the things I really enjoy.

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Okay, very nice. Thank you. Y, hello. Good. Hi. Good night. Okay, my name is Jera.

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I am 29 years old. In this moment, I am giving class in a school to two kids.

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Yeah, two kids. Two kids. And I I I have one year ago giving class in that school.

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Okay. I I I don't I don't know how to say. Okay. You are on a special education.

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Exactly. But It's it's not all the students but some students you know. Yeah differentiate education. Oh that's interesting.

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But is it a regular school? Sorry that I have to ask because I'm interesting on this. It's a regular school.

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It's a it's a regular school. Okay. But in the in the classroom there are some some Yeah. on a special yeah with special needs.

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Okay. Challenging and I like teaching but for that reason I am here to learn more about techniques like Emmanuel and that's it and that's it. Okay. Sadly we lost beta to to Venezuela situation. and she lost her signal her commission but like Sab

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we we are proud of you that you try to came I know we sometimes we can't find again system but we are we are going to give all the options but you keep connected and engaged with the subject

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so nice to see you and to meet you all I'm I'm sure that you are going to this is the start and you're going to start like getting many things and I hope that I can can feel like a bridge for all the

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knowledge that you already have and probably you don't know how to apply that you you uh don't have any idea that oh I could do this I didn't know uh I hope that I can create those moments for

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you because the idea is that sometimes we think like we don't have the the resources emotional intellectual resources but but the real thing is that we have everything there but we just need to um as more than assimilate it is like you

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have to organize them in order to work in a different way for that reason I found very interesting every background I see some connections but at the same time like some different settings that are like very very good

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because these are going to enrich our talks and I hope that you talk because my last groups it was so hard for me like please talk I'm happy that everybody opened their mic so fast and talk this is a very good start so for

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the objective of this subject is to reflect on the development of the teaching of English as a foreign language in Venezuela of course we are going to talk about the Latin America region but we are going to focus on

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what's the reality in Venezuela okay so this is in order to possibly introduce uce oneself to the student of EFL teaching from the theoretical aspects that underpin it and its current trends.

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the trends. Even though we might say the trends can be the most innovative things or the new things, technology, AI, robotic and stuff like that, trends can be tricky because trends needs to be adequate to each setting. So

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even if I talk about I don't know robotics for example who is working on a robotic lab right now any of you so even if I talk about that trending how people in Germany are implementing teaching English with

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robotic is not going to be meaningful for you so what we are going also to find out is this subject is to understand that the new things.

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Not always are the new things globally, but are the new things for us in our setting that can make learning effectively and open to new experience and to open up and explore new things. That we may think this can be boring, but in fact,

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if we adapt it to other situations can be tested. So what we're going to do or what we're going to have during the first unit. Uh this is also very common situation that you are going to find out during this

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master. You're going to find out that our platform everything is in Spanish because our technological support uh are from technology are not like Emanuel that he knows English and informatics it no it's not the case as some of them

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know but we try to make things easy for them. So everything in there is going to be in Spanish but uh your presentation mostly are going to be in English. Okay.

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If you feel like uh probably during this subject it's not going to happen but in the ones around the third semester are some that are quite deep and sometimes the students feel like oh my goodness if I try to explain this in in in English

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it's not going to work you can use Spanish of course we try to tell you and we support that you use English not as a way to say ah he doesn't know English no it's in a way to understand that English

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is our second language or maybe your third. I don't know yet. Nobody said anything but maybe could be your third language.

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And if we find out people that doesn't speak English uh very well and they are native, why not? Can we accept the fact that we aren't perfect? We just have to engage and embrace the fact that we are

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able to speak another language and the fact that we are not also we are not only learners we are also teachers that we know how to teach second language. So that's something amazing about us as a teachers. So if you feel like oh my

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goodness I'm feel this pressure to speak English once again calm down. The idea is for us to relax to share and learn.

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So what are you going to find in the first unit? First we're going to have a introduction to the unit. There is a road or readings in this document.

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You're going to find out uh the explanation of what you are going to read. Why there is an explanation?

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Because there are some readings that are when you don't know. You're going to say, "Oh my god, the teacher sent me a 50page book for this week and I don't have time." Relax. you're going to have to read three or four pages, draw the

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entire 15. But when you download the the book and trying to keep the uh the rights, right?

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I keep the book entirely in the package or you're going just to read some pages and so or some articles.

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And there is also um another book which talks a video that talks about the teaching in Venezuela. You're going to there are some links that you have to click and download. What are going to be the evaluation for this stage? The first

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one my experience on English as a foreign language is a video. I know. Oh my goodness. I don't know if I look good or bad. For the one that create content, she's already done. But if you don't feel like uh very confident with this,

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just you need to relax. This is just experience just like we did right now.

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This is something that you are going to talk about. How was your experience as a student learning the language and how this affect the teacher that you are right now.

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Sometimes we need to reflect on all those uh okay arena you can see this on the platform okay you receive the email and there is the link for you to to enter in unit one.

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So in this forum in this you're going just to share your experience and the next activity is an infographic that we are going well we are going to have first a session next week we are going to talk about some aspects about English

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as a foreign language and you are going to create an infographic that talks about the past present and the future.

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How do you see the future of English or the future on your setting? If you think things are going to change, how are they going to change? How are the things that are going to be present in the future that are right now

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or what are the things that were in the past that we don't use or see anymore?

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All these activities are reflective. Most of the time I tell my students that there the master is not is not about right answers it's about explaining why.

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So you are going to find out that a lot in here and especially with me because there are many theories there are many people saying things and we just have to keep what are the things that help us to

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improve our context of teaching and learning. Okay. So this is going to be for first unit next week. The dates as you can see you're going to find it out in the platform.

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I try to send a recall every Monday. I send an email or I send in the platform just to remind we have this activity. You have to do this in order for you to keep engaged with the platform. I know you are starting and

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sometime it's like oh my goodness you're going to receive the email for my message.

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Second unit we have our content. There is a video for the introduction. There is the root. All all the organization for this class is going to be like this.

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You have your reading package and you have some extra links for you to watch.

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One is a video by me and the other is a video by Steve Gothman.

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They are very short, very easy to understand. The idea is to understand how in this case reading and writing have passed in Venezuela and some theoretical fun foundations on this.

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What are the activities we are going to find out first? Uh we are going to have a slide presentation. Yes, you are going to organize a very nice clear concise precise slide presentation about how is writing and reading and English as a

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foreign language in your context. All of this is going to be based on a material or a book or any kind of resource you use on your setting. For example, if you are working in an academy, if you have

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an specific book, you can use it. If you are on the school, the school have these sorts of things, you can use it. If you say teacher, I don't use anything because I prepare my own material which is valid. Uh you can go for the option

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of upload one of your materials or use the books my first picture. I also they are there in a link. You can download any of them and use them for you to prepare your activity.

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As I said, it depends of your context, your situation or what you decide for create your activity. It's open, very open.

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Then we have uh an essay activity. In this essay activity, we are going to have a English session. We are going to check about some aspect about reading and writing and you are going to enrich your site about it and submit it on the

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platform. All the activities and I want this for for you to be clear have the instruction for example the slides you're going the slide presentation I try to be very specific explicit what you are going to do first slide is going

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to be this in the second one the content is going to be max four slides this and the reference all your activities have to add a reference citations link things everything because it's important. This is an academic context and we are not

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perfect but we can use what people said in order to make our comments or our belief to be founded on something. Okay.

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So everything is very well explained but if you have any doubt you can reach me teacher. I don't get this. Can you explain me a little bit more? Can you give me an example? And of course I going to reach the faster I can and give

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it an answer for that. Unit three as you can see as well an introduction. We are going to have our root our readings and we are going to have uh this is a video if I don't remember I think this is a

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tech talk how to speak bad English perfectly. This video is fantastic. is by Heather Hansen and you are going to find out oh my goodness there are so many things happening in the world and it's going to open your eyes about

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teaching English and speaking English for sure what are going to be the evaluations for this stage first we are going to have a video presentation like this setting you are going to record yourself using whatever platform you want if you want to record first you

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explaining and then the slides or you're going to use a video uh using clip charms, cap code, tik tok, whatever you want to edit your video. This is like a very chore class or micro class talking about oral

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h skills listening and speaking and then you're going to have a reaction paper. Reaction paper is just a way is another type of essays but this is like a little bit more chill is more about the reflection you have h putting on words

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and written words this reaction paper is going to be about the video the tile of the Dr. Heather Hansen.

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So in this specific activity, the key is that you write as you watch the video, write your emotions, your thoughts during the precise moment. Like she said something that catch your attention, you go like, why did she said this? Or if

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she says a phrase or there is something that doesn't follow or align what you believe, you can also write why does she say this? I believe that English should be this way. Whatever that comes to your mind as I told you this is not a right

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or wrong answers. It's about reflection. How I am reflecting on the teaching and learning process I'm living right now and how this u performs an activity intra and extra for my development as a teacher.

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Finally, unit four is a very interesting topic because we are not talking about English itself skills that are very important for every worker around the world which are the skill for 21 century.

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If we think about uh the language itself is as a tool, we say it's just for communication. But people when it's going to communicate need more things, not just words. You need presentation.

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You need to be candid, kind, your the way you use your voice, the tone, everything is related to other skill that are not embed on language itself.

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And these abilities, how to communicate, how to be kind, uh how to be critical, how to resolve problems are where our minds are uh organized. All these skills and that what make us mean this the sk teachers but professional. So all these skills

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are very useful and are needed to be thought for all our students. Even if we are not or like aware we are teaching them the idea is that we need to teach them uh not directly but inside our content. So

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you are going to find out what are those skills. You are going to see uh how this framework affects how people around the world find out or not the job or the dream job. We are going to have two

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evaluations here as well. First, you're going to have a podcast which is directly focused on this content which is the 21 century skills. But the paper presentation is a final activity we are going to have which is like the closure for this

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subject in which you are going to present uh a paper. You're not going to prepare a slice or anything. You're going to make your presentation showing your paper is an academic let's say a soft academic paper. You're going to have an introduction. You are

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going to present some strategies for teaching and you are going to explain according to the context how does the strategy works.

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You can say if the strategy is going to be for writing, for speaking or if you're going to mix skills. As you can see at the end, we already saw the four skills, language skills, and we have the

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21 century skills added. So then the requirements you should use, if I'm not mistaken, two language skills and one 21 century skill. You are going to make a mashup.

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I said a mash but in reality we use them always like soft mixed but in this case you're going to make explicit how they appear on your strategies.

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very important that you keep in mind that even though this is the last activity once we start talking about the skills you can start like making your outline of how this paper is going to look like. So at the

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end you will don't have like a lot of work to do but just soft work to do. All the contents are open. The things that aren't open are the summit. It means you have to submit on a specific time. But

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all the content you can start downloading, you can start reading and working on your activities and we can see each other on the days. We are going to have the live sessions for discussing talking about etc. It's very simple. As

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you can see, it's going to be four units and we're done. So this goes by the blink and eye. Today we are seeing each other and I should we play and we are going to be well guys it was a pleasure

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to meet you all. Thank you so much for coming and we are going to be done with the with activities. So it's important for us to be or to keep in touch communicating and here are my recommendations.

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First, we have the platform. We have mood. If you don't have the application, the application on your mobile phone, I recommend it because you're going to receive the notifications. Download the applications open with the link of poradi and you are going to see all the

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courses you are uh you are enrolling and you can work from your phone. is very nice, simple. I use it as a way to keep like in mind the things that I can do and especially because if you have

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Android or iPhone, whichever you have, the calendar is going to if you have the the permissions on the calendar is going to to align to with your phone calendar and is going to appear all the days and activities you have to or you have do.

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I'm obsessed with calendars. I have all my day planned by time and hour and for me it's very important to have this detail that I have to do this and that at this time. So I've recommended to have the application for that reason.

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Moodle has forums. We have a forum for communication and also we have private messages PMS which we can also use.

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Which other way for communicating? By email. You can send an email. If you have, you're going to receive a notification as well and I can answer.

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If you have like a very extreme emergency, I'm going to have also on Telegram for calls. You can also write it down. Uh and we are going to teach her this came up. I have this situation something for

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fast communication even though the platform works very well. You can send a message but sometimes I know that we're going fast or if you don't have enough uh space on your phone and you can download any more apps we can have this

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type of communications is very important. And for finishing today uh my tips first is for plan for daily study. As you can see, we have four weeks of work and all four weeks are packed with activities.

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It means that you can rest. I I want to say it another way, but I can say it anyway. We can rest. All activities are planned have a dutu. Please keep in mind I have to do this for this day. I have to this for

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this day. I have to prepare this for Friday, I have to submit this on Sunday.

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Most of the days depending on the activity are have some extra days before our live sessions. But if you have the possibility to finish it and before our lives presentation is better for the last presentation which is going to be on Friday, our class of

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course you have to be done before. That's the only uh the only week that you have to summit your activities on Thursday.

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For that reason, I keep telling you that you have to plan for that last presentation beforehand because we are going to summit that on Thursday in so I can have all the material for the presentations on Friday.

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If something come up, of course, I going to to be flexible, but I'm trying to to motivate you to finish before the time.

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I already saw that you are keeping in touch with something that I love. But this is something key not just for this subject but for the master in general.

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When we create friendship, uh we have like a deep connection between our classmates, it help us to come together to the end. And this is a key things for you to to keep together and finish the master.

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Sometimes it's hard. You are starting and this is not a an unmotivated message. This is a way to tell you that the answer for you to finish this is that you keep together. So try to keep in touch, talk each other, send a

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message. Hey, how you doing? The activities you can do it in pairs. There are some activities that are individual.

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But the idea is that you keep together. Even if the activity is uh individual, you can go and ask each other. I I have I'm going to work with this. What are you going to work out with this? Let's

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connect each other. Let's talk each other. What are you going to do? Can you check what I do? Okay, let me check what you did. All those those type of moment that we have really enrich the experience of having a

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uh yeah having a master studying in a master and especially because you are in a virtual situation in which you don't have the the experience of being together in a classroom. So we have to open up all those meetings in order to to have the

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the same feeling. Communicate your doubts. If you have any doubt, not don't stay with them like I'm supposed to know this or oh my goodness, it's embarrassing to ask. Ask. It's better to ask than go with or summit a

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paper an activity and say, "Oh my goodness, have I should have asked because I thought it was and I decide to change it and I was right the first time." No, just go go go for clarification and I'm sure that I'm

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going to to answer any doubt that you have and of course use the platform wisely. We have but we have the material it works very well. Now we are have an update model is very good.

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Each class is going to be record as you can see and it's going to be uh uploaded on the platform. So you can also rewatch the class if you need any extra information for the last activity or for whatever. Okay.

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So far how are your expectation? How do you feel after seeing all the journey that we are going to have? How do you feel? Any thought?

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Well, yeah, if I could say something. Yeah, you can say everything. I was not expecting uh someone else came home. So it's a really bit noisy. I'm not sure if you can listen the noise.

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No, no, I don't listen anything with you. So good. No. Well, uh actually about informatic uh I don't consider myself like an expert, but I what I really enjoy is creating like an educational you know things like infograph and those

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things. So aside from teaching English, studying a master degree, I think that I'm really enjoying what what I'm doing with the homeworks, you know, it's kind of nice. So your explanation was also really good. If I have any question for

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sure, I will try to reach you back. Okay. Excellent. Well, any expectation, any question, something?

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All good. I'm seeing your cameras are on. at least say teacher show me your thumb up at least well I I have another question but it's not about um what you explained but about um I don't know how teacher like

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how did you learn English or how do do you keep your English because you know when when we learn English uh I realize you have a lot of vocabulary so that's good I really love that but how how to keep that so what's

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your tip so how to Yeah, that vocabulary it's very hard. In fact, it's very hard when you work on the setting of ESP because we teach in Spanish. Oriana as well works as me. So, we teach in Spanish and we focus just on reading.

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How did I manage to keep my English? because I keep in contact with all the communities vintel international IELTS I try to keep in touch with all the activities that they are done webinars American education all these places that hold any kind of

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virtual event I'm on them this was my first uh let's call my my first step in keeping my English. The second thing as well as many of you and Lisa said she loves to learn and for me the fact that

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I work on ESP gave gave me the opportunity to work with different fields. I have worked with engineering, with medical school, physiootherapy, nursery, management, all of this fields and I keep reading material of any topic possible and people sometimes my

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students even believe that are you a doctor and I'm like no I'm not a doctor.

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I have read a lot about many topics. So when you start studying a lot, you like to read it really improve.

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Keep in touch with people not native with people that speak English in general and try to apply. Personally I love I have to admit it. I love manga, anime, video games and I use that in my benefit to keep with English. So I have all

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connections, all my apps, everything in English. I connect with people talking in English. So I keep like that connection. But the feel part is because I learn I keep reading about topic. The fluency and the general thing is because

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I keep in touch with people that speak English. So you have to have like that equilibrium. Don't go just for the field or the the specific purpose vocabulary, but get the fluency to keep in touch with people around the world just to

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talk about anything. That's what works for me. Well, that's good. So, it means that aside from that, you are actually like teaching Spanish, right? But is it remotely, I guess, right?

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Yes. No. Okay. In university, in university, the thing is when you work on ESP, what the instructional designs tells you is that you are going to focus and you are going to see this in on some other subject

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that the instructional design told you that you have to focus on one skill in Francisco Miranda University. The focus is that you are going to teach reading comprehension.

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So you are going to teach also in I think it's like this right. So you are going to work with the field.

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If you are medicine I'm going to give my student all the readings related to the topic.

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medicine part part of the body pharmacology microbiology whatever they are interesting to in reading and they I'm going to give them reading comprehension strategies for them to apply to reads in English but they are going to answer everything in

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Spanish because the focus is just read it okay I understand yeah so we teach in a completely different way from communicative English because we are somehow focused just on vocabulary and reading. Of course, this is not up to

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date with what the world is expecting from professionals. So, we try to make some equilibrium and some let's practice speaking this or whatever. But you have to follow when you work for an academy or for an institution, you have to follow what is

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on the design. in the general plan. So it is like this. But for me in general is learning is when learning is enjoyable. I think that you get to learn many things and that's why I like to prepare this kind of setting when you

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enjoy what you learn. Okay. Well, I I totally understand. So thank you. Thank you for for that. Well, that's the big long explanation.

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Yeah. No, no, thank you very much. Okay guys, so your journey is starting here. Just start. So I hope that you get ready and enjoy the ride. It's going to be a very ride. A good ride. Lisana, raise your hand. I love when you use the

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tools on soon. Someone knows how to use them. Thanks God. Lisanna, I have to use them. This is what I use every day in class.

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So beautiful. Erh well I have a question about the use of artificial intelligence. I wanted to know a little your opinion about the use of artificial intelligence. I I personally ask my students to um to use for example Chad GPT or

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Gemini. So for example since in class I tell them okay every day if you want to tell me about something you did during the day you can do it. you can tell me about something you did during the weekend and you can use chip and

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gemini in order to if you if you if you don't know how to say something you can use prepare in advance and then you can come to class and use that vocabulary to explain um what what happened to you or what you

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wanted to talk about h in the previous course um that it was about the use of ICP, information technology in education and we were required to disclose the use of artificial intelligence in every essay and we were even required to add the

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prompt that we used for every paperwork. Um, so I wanted to know your opinion about that. If you like the use of if you like when you your students use artificial intelligence and if we are required to to disclose the use of AI

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and the prompt in in the activities that we have this course. Yes. In general, I I mean AI came for for staying and in the future it's going to I won't say kill us but it's going to take a lot from us.

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It cames and it stayed. Uh right now there are many ways to make the reference to the AI. We can make the disclosures. We can explain the prompt and we can also uh show the reference about how was the the use of AI. I don't

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have problem with it but in general uh most of my activities are things that relate are related also to emotions. for example, the reaction paper. Uh the strategy uh probably you can use like uh AI to give you like outline or

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structure, but you are the one that is going to add all the extra details are about your context.

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So I don't have problem with it. As you can see, I also create my pictures with AI because I love to personalize things.

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board. Of course, as I told you before, everything have to use with reference. There is a requirement for my activities about using part of the readings you have.

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Of course, we can go on cloud, upload the readings and ask is also uh a way to to study. If you ask me teacher, are you pro- AI or con AI? I think AI is and should be used for people

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that let me add Emma again. Because for example, if we are I'm sorry. If you're looking for something specific, we don't have I mean sometimes when I'm teaching I have a question and sometimes um you don't have to read the whole

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paper in order to find that specific answer, right? So that's helpful. But I understand your point. It's not like you're going Yeah.

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I I I have to say 50/50 in sense that AI is for people that have already developed some kind of knowledge and can somehow differentiate when the AI is accurate or not.

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Okay. So given the fact that most of the time uh if you know how to use AI is going to give you an accurate answer uh there is still the tools or the step that you have to follow in order to

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let's say hi to the ladies she gave some step that you have to follow in order to use AI for academic content who are me specifically you are going to to be evaluated according to the submission you gave. If

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you give me something that is completely AI based and I don't feel the emotions for example I already saw you I know how you express when you talk about the things that you like. I could see that you like learning and stuff like that

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and when you submit a paper is completely cold I understood that they are not your emotion and your reflections on it.

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Okay. So in general you have a question or you have something that you have want to say you know that is in the paper you can upload it on cloud or the preferent AI. I use like 10 around and you can ask

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it what can I say or what's the right sitation for this tab and you are going to find but for the activities requirement is that you have to read the test and you have to make some sitation from them so

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the way you use them is up to you I don't have any problem also with infographics I know sometimes people use the AI for Doing the infographics I usually tell them please be sure that the infographics speak is right accurate

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there is not information repeat everything every word is well spelled all those details that should be pay attention to please pay attention to that but as I said AI is here stay and won't go anywhere any soon so we have to learn to

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live with it as a teachers too. Okay, let's let me say hi to lady. Hi ladies, how are you? Can you hear me?

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Hello, professor. How are you? I'm so sorry for being late. No, no, don't worry. How you doing?

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Well, I'm well. Very well. Okay, very important lady because we are closing the the class right now. The class is being record. It's going to be upload on the platform so you can rewatch. In general, we talked today

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about the objective of the class. How is the content organized and we present each other but because I know you I don't have problem with it.

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I hope that for next sessions you can you can organize your agenda or for coming in and have I'm sorry here we have no electricity so I'm in I I imagine because I know many part many parts of Ka with energy

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and even you see me like I'm normal but I keep seeing on my phone that there is no energy in that place and that place hitting. By the way, I'm from Punto Fjo.

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I forgot to say that I'm not from I'm from PO and I'm seeing that energy is failing everywhere and I'm like please don't don't do this to me.

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But don't worry, I understand this is a situation that follow us every day every My pleasure. So if anyone have any other questions or dab to ask, I think I'm going to say it. Goodbye for today.

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Okay. Any other comment? Any more to say anything? So just to recall for next week we are going to have live session on Friday and you have two activities the summit. you have the the first activity that is going to be

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uh the delivery of that is or October 1st and we you can come for the live session with no problem. We are going to have our session and then you can you're going to submit the next evaluation which is the infographic. Okay. If you

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have it done earlier, better. But if not, it's okay. You have some extra days for it. Are we clear with it?

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Yes. Okay. So, thank you so much for coming and I will keep in touch with everybody. See you.

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Bye. Bye. Bye, teacher. Thank you. Teacher, I have a question. Yes, Ariana. When I can I watch the record of the class?

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Okay. Erh, I'm going to let you I will send you a message when the record is upload on the platform. Today we you have to let our monitor rest because I have to listen again.

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So probably it's going to be uh upload on Monday. Okay. So on Monday it's going to Let's wait for it to Thank you teacher. Bye.

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My pleasure. Bye. Have a good night. Thank you so much for coming. Bye.

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