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SOCIAL MEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE�THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION?

  • The use of social media in education enables students, teachers, and parents to get helpful information easily, connect with other learning groups, and understand other educational systems
  • AI is here to stay. AI tools are interactive and can be easily personalized. They could be used to provide all young people with their own virtual ‘tutor’. Of course, teachers can never be replaced by technology

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INSTAGRAM AND AI FOR LEARNING PURPOSES

Most of us use social media to keep in touch with our friends and to post photos and stories of what we think is an important event in our life.

Can we use social media and AI to learn?

The answer is YES!

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Social media and AI to help you learn History!

Do you think history is a boring subject?

  • Most students think it’s boring because it’s filled with dates, people and places which often require students to learn by heart.
  • However, remember that history was made by real people like you.
  • How would you feel if you had the chance to investigate the life of these people as if they were alive today?
  • How would you feel if you had the chance to talk to Napoleon himself?

With AI, you can do it!

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Eternal AI

  • Eternal AI uses the magic of artificial intelligence to bring history's most iconic figures to life
  • It’s an application which lets you interact with these timeless personalities in a whole new way. With advanced AI technology, you can chat, uncover their unique characteristics, and even listen to their voices
  • We hope you will be excited to experience history in this way!

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EXAMPLE�

  • Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, who created a new approach to the understanding of the human personality. He is seen as one of the most influential minds of the 20th century. He died in 1939.
  • What would it be like to talk to a scientist who has been dead for 85 years?
  • Watch this video to find out!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v_cUmJm0rgU

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SECOND EXAMPLE�Martin Luther King

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a great man who worked hard to bring equal rights to African Americans.
  • He spent his life trying to make the world a better and fairer place.
  • In 1963 he gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. Here is a quote from it: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.“

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OVozuhIcArU

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LET’S DO IT!

  • Let’s now see how Eternal AI works in practice!
  • We will give each group (Spain, Turkey and Germany) a handout with information about three historical figures
  • Please take a few minutes to read this information and get ready to talk to each of these important people.
  • Write down three questions you would like to ask them
  • Go to https://eternal.ai/ and when your turn comes, type your question. Your teachers can help you if you don’t know how to say something in English.
  • Is that clear?

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HISTORICAL FIGURES

  • SPAIN- YOU WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO TALK TO PABLO PICASSO
  • GERMANY-YOU WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO TALK TO SIGMUND FREUD
  • TURKEY-YOU WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO TALK TO PRINCESS DIANA

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SPAIN

Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Málaga in Andalusia, a region of Spain. His father was a painter who specialized in painting birds. He was also a professor of art at the School of Crafts. Picasso showed a passion and a skill for drawing from an early age. From the age of seven, Picasso received formal artistic training from his father in figure drawing and oil painting.

When Picasso was only sixteen his father and uncle decided to send him to Madrid to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. This art school was the most renowned art school in the country. However, Picasso disliked formal instruction and quickly stopped attending classes. He decided to create his own individual type of art, which was later called cubism.

Picasso began to paint in a new way. He wanted to show three-dimensional characteristics on a flat canvas. In order to achieve that, he broke up the subject into many different shapes and then repainted it from different angles. Picasso painted The Young Ladies of Avignon in 1907. It was the first Cubist painting.

Picasso’s technique of painting became popular, so other artists such as Georges Braque, Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes started to paint in his style.

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GERMANY

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian scientist. He invented psychoanalysis, a method of treating mental disorders. Freud was one of the most-influential scientists of the 1900s.

Early Life

Freud was born on May 6, 1856, in Freiberg, Moravia, in the Austrian Empire. His father, Jakob, was a wool merchant. Jakob moved the family to Vienna, Austria, when Sigmund was a young boy. After his graduation from secondary school in 1873, he attended the University of Vienna, where he studied medicine

In late 1885 Freud traveled to Paris, France, to continue his studies of neuropathology. His time in Paris was very important to his career. It was here that he discovered the possibility that mental disorders may have their source in the mind rather than the brain. This means that some mental problems do not occur in the nerves of the brain but rather in the mental state of the person.

Freud returned to Vienna in 1886 and married Martha Bernays. They had six children. One of his children, Anna, became a distinguished psychoanalyst.

Psychoanalysis

During the 1890s Freud studied emotionally unstable patients by putting them in a state called hypnosis. While the patients were hypnotized, Freud noticed that they talked freely about anything that came to mind. Patients showed improvement after these sessions. His investigations led him to develop new ideas about the structure of personality.

Freud published a number of writings about his work. The Interpretation of Dreams is considered his masterwork. In it, Freud argues that dreams play an important role in mental health. Sigmund Freud believed that dreams were a window into the unconscious mind, and that they revealed repressed desires and anxieties. He also believed that all dreams were symbolic, and that symbols in dreams could be interpreted to reveal hidden meanings.

Last Days

Freud lived and worked in Vienna for almost all of his life. However, when Nazi Germany took over Austria in 1938, he was forced to escape to England because he was Jewish. Freud died there, in London, on September 23, 1939.

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TURKEY

Introduction

Diana, princess of Wales, was a member of the British royal family. She was married to Prince Charles, the prince of Wales, and was the mother of Princes William and Harry.

Early Life

Lady Diana Frances Spencer was born on July 1, 1961, at Sandringham, Norfolk, England. She came from a noble or aristocratic family, and among her ancestors were kings and queens of England and Scotland. She had two elder sisters, Sarah and Jane, and a younger brother, Charles. In 1975 Lady Diana’s father became Earl Spencer, and the family went to live in their stately home at Althorp, Northamptonshire. After attending schools in England and Switzerland Lady Diana became a kindergarten teacher at the fashionable Young England school in the Pimlico neighborhood of London.

Marriage

In 1981 Lady Diana married Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II. Prince Charles was the prince of Wales, and Lady Diana became the princess of Wales. They had two children, Prince William (born 1982) and Prince Harry (born 1984). In 1996 their marriage ended in divorce. After that she was not allowed to call herself simply the “princess of Wales.” Instead, she became known as “Diana, princess of Wales.”

Charity Work

The princess was well known for her charity work. She helped children, the sick, the homeless, and disabled people. She also called for a worldwide ban on landmines (bombs buried on purpose in the ground), which kill and injure innocent people.

Death

Diana, princess of Wales, died in a car crash in Paris, France, on August 31, 1997. She was buried at Althorp, the Spencer family home.

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USING AI TO LEARN ENGLISH!

Did you know that AI can help you speak better English?

  • Advanced computer programs give you the chance to have realistic communication on various topics and get feedback on your progress.
  • Speech recognition and pronunciation tools will help you correct your pronunciation and intonation as they can analyze your speech and offer feedback on improving your pronunciation and intonation accuracy.

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ELSA Speak

  • One of the hardest parts of learning a new language can be to speak and correctly pronounce sounds that are foreign to you
  • Even in this Erasmus project, we all speak with a strong accent because our native languages are so different!
  • How many times do we find it difficult to make ourselves understood?
  • Sometimes, in a traditional class it can be difficult for foreigners to communicate in English because of their accent.
  • The famous sitcom "Mind your language "shows this in a funny way. Watch these videos
  • https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0RmW6guCnzM
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbS2vTAUMs4

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HOW DOES AI HELP YOU SPEAK BETTER ENGLISH?

  • ELSA Speak, short for English Language Speech Assistant, is an online language-learning app that helps you improve your English pronunciation. It’s a bot so it never loses its patience like the teacher we saw in the video!
  • The speech recognition engine allows ELSA Speak to recognize how you pronounce letters, syllables, words, and phrases. After you speak, the app will show you written phrases marked as green, orange, or red, depending on how well you did. You can click on any word, and a screen will pop up showing you more detailed information with more detailed information on how to achieve better pronunciation

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Watch the video to get an idea of how it works

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LET’S PRACTICE!

  • Use your cell phone or tablet and download the app “ELSA Speak”
  • Sign in with your Gmail. You may be asked what your native language is or your level of English
  • Go to “Discover” at the bottom of the page (the binoculars) and where it says Game Types click on “ELSA AI”. In the free version, you have 3 conversations available so we will choose one for each country

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CONVERSATION TIME!

  • SPAIN: An airplane chat (introduce yourself and describe the reason for your trip-for example, “My name is Pablo and I’m travelling to Greece for an Erasmus project) Allow Elsa to record your voice.
  • Germany: Describe your holiday
  • Turkey: A missed birthday apology ( say you’re sorry you missed your friend’s birthday and explain why you missed it)

After you finish the conversation, Elsa will give you an assessment of how you did. Click on “View Full Assessment”. Would you like to share it with us?

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We hope you enjoyed the activity!