Wednesday, July 3: Day 2: DIGITAL AIDS
Students must read and agree to the following procedures and policies before starting the course.
Chatty robot helps seniors fight loneliness through AI companionship
https://elliq.com/pages/testimonials
Read the handout titled Hitchhiking Robot to Journey Across Canada and answer the six (6) comprehension questions that follow.
Online students will submit their answers as PDF files
Some students use ChatGPT to write their essays!
If AI can do so much of what humans can, will humans eventually give up trying to do things for themselves? Think about Robots and self-driving vehicles as examples.
Let's look at a film that explores this idea in a slightly different way. AS you watch, think about how this film describes your own behaviour.
LINK: https://www.nfb.ca/film/getting_started/
HANDOUTS: Working in pairs, complete the three (3) exercises based on the film GETTING STARTED.
Exercise #1: CONDITIONAL VERB FORM with IF ...NOT ...UNLESS
Exercise #2: Making Excuses using UNREAL CONDITIONAL VERBS & PAST TIME WITH ... but .... if
Exercise #3: IDIOMS and GERUNDS as objects of the preposition "by"