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Online Collaborative Tools and How to Use Them

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              Source: Padlet ( https://id.padlet.com/about ) Hello, students! Nice to meet you again here in this post! Previously, we discussed word clouds and how to use them in the classroom. I hope you received some insights on how to improve the classroom interaction between you and your students. Now, let us talk about a tool that lets you interact and collaborate more with your students. It is Padlet! Have you ever heard this tool before? If so, have you ever used it? To start things off, Padlet is a technological and educational company that provides a real-time collaborative platform in which people can share and organize virtual boards called "padlets". You can use it in the classroom mostly to gather ideas, but you can also use it to answer questions, to introduce students, and even to play games! There are just so many fun activities that can be done using Padlet. I'll give you some examples of classroom scenarios to make it more clear. At the beginning of the

Word Clouds in Language Teaching

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  Hi, students! Welcome back to my blog where ideas float like clouds! How have you been lately? I hope everything is okay. If you ask me, I'm actually doing better these days! I'm not exactly on cloud nine, but everything is on track. Well, talking about clouds, do you know what word clouds are? Yes! Basically, a word cloud is a cluster of words. The words are usually within a particular category or theme, and the bigger a word's size is, the more frequently used it is. Moreover, word clouds are typically used to gather ideas on a specific topic. Word cloud was first invented in around 1976 by Stanley Milgram. Even though it has been years and years, word cloud is still very relevant today. "So, what's so good about it? Is it really useful?" Of course! Word clouds are very useful in some contexts. You can use word clouds to summarize and present data in research, academia, manuals, presentations, and other text types. One crucial thing about word cloud that m

The Controversy of Artificial Intelligence in Education

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Source:  https://projectwale.com/ Back in the blog! Welcome, students! Lately, artificial intelligence (AI) has been one of the hottest topics everywhere. It is brought up in basically all fields or professions, starting from teachers, doctors, researchers, and even politicians. Also nowadays, it's not a surprise to see children being familiar with technology as it has gained a rapid growth of use over the past few years. However, there is still a question that continues to spark controversy among people. Is AI actually beneficial for humans, or is it slowly leading us to something bad? Well, from the short introduction, we are going to discuss AI! I am 100% sure you have used AI before even though you may not notice it. AI can take different forms, such as ChatGPT, Google Maps, Alexa, and so many other examples. So, from your experience in using it, do you think it is beneficial or not? In my own view, artificial intelligence was initially invented with a good intention, and that