Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Do you know ChatGPT?

 AI-ChatGPT

At first, let us see several pictures.





I think it wrote better than I could have, and the summary is very accurate, haha.

When you encounter this situation, do you feel happy or fearful? Whenever new technology emerges or existing technology makes significant advances, I often encounter friends discussing the pros and cons of technology.

For example, using ChatGPT as an example, it can play a significant positive role in our teaching by helping us collect materials, provide ideas, and offer more assistance to students.

However, it can also have negative effects on students and ourselves if we become overly reliant on ChatGPT, losing our own ideas and living in fear of eventually being replaced by artificial intelligence.

My first viewpoint is that humans invent and develop technology, and humans also use technology.

Technology itself is neither good nor bad, and the results depend on how humans use these new technologies.

I believe that we should fully explore the benefits brought about by new technologies and avoid the negative effects of inappropriate use.

As an English teacher, when using ChatGPT, we should also hold this belief and leverage its advantages to help us teach and improve our teaching abilities.

What do you think about the emergence of ChatGPT? Please feel free to leave a comment in the comment section so we can discuss it together.

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                                              Today's picture(The photographer is myself)
Paris, France





Saturday, April 1, 2023

Quillbot-save your time.

 Quillbot

 
Have you seen this advertisement?πŸ˜‰πŸ˜†πŸ˜‚πŸ˜ I see it every time when I open a video on YouTube. The advertisement is for Quillbot, a website I frequently use.

Quillbot is an AI writing tool that can help users improve their writing by reorganizing and restructuring sentences, changing vocabulary and grammar, and providing synonyms and related words, among other features.

For teachers 

 Quillbot can save time by using its features to rewrite or check the grammar of teaching materials to ensure their accuracy.


Quillbot is most famous for its paraphrasing ability and offers various writing modes to meet different writing needs. It can provide teachers with more ideas when teaching writing classes.

Its features also include collaborative writing, summarizing, generating citations, and translation, all of which can be useful for English teachers. Therefore, I believe that this website is a valuable resource for teachers to utilize.

It can also be extended to be used within Word documents, which is undoubtedly another highlight of Quillbot.




For students

Improving students' writing skills: Quillbot can be used as an auxiliary tool to help English teachers improve their students' writing skills. Teachers can guide students to use Quillbot's synonym and related word functions to help them expand their vocabulary and language expression ability.

Assisting students in restructuring sentences and paragraphs: Quillbot provides the function of paraphrasing and restructuring sentences and paragraphs. English teachers can use this function to help students learn how to improve their writing style and logical thinking ability.

Increasing students' writing efficiency: Quillbot can help students quickly check and improve their writing, thus improving their writing efficiency and quality. This can make it easier for English teachers to monitor students' progress and achievements, and provide them with better feedback and guidance.

However, when recommending Quillbot to students, it is important to not only consider its benefits but also the potential negative impact if used improperly.

πŸ‘€πŸ‘€πŸ‘€ note: All screenshots are from quillbot
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                                                    Today's picture(The photographer is myself)

Greenwich, UK