Sunday, November 01, 2020

Artificial intelligence entering the field of language teaching

 Artificial intelligence has been developing so quickly that it has now even entered the field of language teaching and learning. Quillionz is one such example: You feed the tool with a passage, and it will give you a set of reading comprehension questions. 

I've given it a try, and I have to admit that at least as far as the lower end of Bloom''s taxonomy is concerned, the questions generated make good sense. 

In the long run, as educators there is only one way for us to justify our existence - go for the higher-order thinking/skill matters in our teaching. 

https://www.quillionz.com/


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