Learning Reflection Blog - Educating with AI by Julio Monterrosa

INTRODUCTION At the beginning of the specialization course I had very high expectations as I wanted to learn  more in depth  about artificial intelligence and its key concepts, and how it could be a powerful tool for my professional development as an English language teacher. When I started module 1 I had to understand several AI concepts that were not common to me such as 'Algorithm', 'Generative AI', Deep Learning', 'Machine Learning', 'LLMs', 'Natural Language Processing', 'prompt design and prompt engineering; this module comprises the introduction to artificial intelligence and its history over the years, some tools for learning and accessibility for the learner. In addition, I studied how to create effective prompts following the anatomy of prompts 'PARTS'. Also, creating images using AI like gemini, microsoft copilot, GPT chat was very useful as I put into practice the knowledge of prompting to be able to create and replica...

INTRODUCTION After successfully completing module one I was exceptionally motivated to continue learning more about AI and its potential for English language teaching. Therefore, I had to keep getting better at creating effective and more specific prompts for the creation of didactic material. Also, I had the expectation to learn about new tools that will help me as an educator in my teaching development and my students in their learning process. Consequently, this module also comprises the creation of gems as virtual assistants using Gemini, and the first gem I created was to perform a specific task that consisted of analyzing children's stories in the “Read Along Project”. This project consisted of identifying appropriate and inappropriate stories for English language teaching in the Salvadoran educational system. I must confess that at the beginning I assumed that it was going to be a very complex project, but after receiving a very good instruction from our guiding teacher ...