Artificial intelligence is finally here and we can now use it to help automate so many daily tasks like optimizing our product pages, brainstorm winning products and ideas, get free organic traffic to our stores without having to market our products, write engaging ad copies and so much more. And in this video I'm going to go over all of the details and best strategies to use with chat GPT to use it to its full potential in your e-commerce business. Best of all, chat GPT is 100% free and easy to use. So whether you heard about this AI tool or not, I'm going to show you some of the best strategies that you can use right after watching this video. So get ready to learn how to take your e-commerce business to the next level with chat GPT. By the way, who do you think helped me write this introduction? Quick intro and let's go. Welcome back and congratulations on being an early bird, on the advancement of artificial intelligence and actually being able to use it and implement it inside your dropshipping stores. Now, it doesn't really matter if you're a dropshipper or even selling inventory, this tool right here is going to help you out with your e-commerce store. So first of all, a quick welcome to chat GPT. And just by watching this video, you're already in the top 1% of the world population who is actually using this. Watch this video, take note of all of the tips that I'm going to give you and then implement it into your stores after we're done. But let's take it back one second. Before we start, don't forget to subscribe to your YouTube channel to always learn about the next step in your e-commerce business, like the step that you're about to learn right now. So what is chat GPT in the first place? It is an online chatbot that you have access to. It's absolutely free to use and it helps provide information, answer question and understand concepts almost in any topic that you can think of. For example, it can write code, create content, provide helpful tips and more things that you're about to learn. But how exactly is it going to help you with your e-commerce business? First of all, it can give you tips on how to create and optimize product listings, which also includes writing and rewriting complete product descriptions. Next, it could also give you advice on how to market and promote your e-commerce store or the products that you have inside of it, including through social media, email marketing and search engine optimization. It can also help you brainstorm niche ideas for your e-commerce store. So if you're only in the beginning trying to wonder what you want to sell, I'm going to show you how it can generate some really cool and unique ideas, as well as creating pages with rich content for your e-commerce website so that you can bring free organic traffic to your store from external search engines such as Google. Chat GPT can also offer guidance on how to handle customer inquiries, complaints, reports and more, as well as offer suggestions on how to track and analyze key performance metrics to measure the success of your store and identify areas for improvement. It could also help provide information on how to stay compliant with the laws and regulations related to e-commerce, such as privacy and consumer protection laws, especially in the area that you're dropshipping to or that you're selling to, which of course is a very important thing to know. Now, this is just a small example of how Chat GPT can help you with your e-commerce business. And in the examples that I'm about to start, I'm going to show you use case examples of how you can use it to find a good niche to sell, write compelling product descriptions that are engaging and that are much better than what your suppliers can offer, and also help make it 100% unique so that you will be the only online seller with this professional product description. So let's go ahead and get started and learn how to implement these strategies with Chat GPT and help you upgrade your e-commerce business to the next level, stand out, and finally be 100% unique. The amount of time that this is going to shave off of your hands and the amount of value that it's going to help bring to your e-commerce store. And at the end of this video, when you start implementing these strategies, prepare to have your minds blown in three, two, one, let's begin. Here's Chat GPT and I'm going to leave a link to it right below this video. Once again, free to use, just click on it and get started. So let's say that we're at the beginning of our dropshipping journey or the beginning of our e-commerce journey and we're looking for a good niche to sell. Let's see how Chat GPT can help us out with this. So here I'm going to write, brainstorm 10 online store niche ideas for 2023 that cater to human needs. Then I'm going to click enter and let's see what it's going to generate for us. Sustainable fashion, a store that specializes in clothing and accessory made from sustainable materials such as organic cotton, recycled plastic, and plant-based fabrics. So you see what they did here. It knows that there is more than enough fashion and accessory stores out there. But moving forward for 2023, we're moving towards a more eco-friendly future and that comes with organic material, recycled and plant-based fabrics. So if you open an online store that specializes in clothing and accessories with those types of materials, you're going to have a leading edge from over 90% of the rest of the e-commerce clothes and accessory stores out there. Number two, health and wellness products, a store that offers a wide range of natural and organic products for health and wellness, including supplements, essential oils, and healthy snacks. This store could also offer online wellness classes and workshops, but that kind of moves us out from the dropshipping business model. So if you want to be a dropshipper, that's not the way that you want to go, but health and wellness products definitely is a good category for dropshippers. Eco-friendly home goods, a store that specializes in environmentally friendly products for the home, such as reusable silicon food storage bags, bamboo utensils, and compostable trash bags. Now I don't know if you guys are up to date with our Sell These Now YouTube playlist and our AutoDS blog page under the product finding category, but we share so much trending product ideas. And some of the products listed here are some of those product ideas that we listed in our product finding articles where we also share the sellers' Facebook ads, their online stores, where they're sourcing the products from, how much they're profiting, and so much more. So be sure to check out our blog page, our YouTube channel in the Sell These Now playlist, go to the product finding sections, and enjoy this amazing amount of value that we have to offer. Okay, let's continue. Number four, pet products. A store that offers high quality, natural, and organic products for pets, including food, toys, and grooming supplies. So as you see, we're moving towards an eco-friendly future, and it's a good thing that we're doing that. Number five, outdoor gear and equipment. Number six, artisanal food and beverage. Number seven, home and garden. Eight, beauty and self-care. Nine, baby and parenting. And 10, hobbies and craft. So these are the top 10 niches for online e-commerce store owners in 2023. If you haven't gotten started yet, you should consider one of these niches. Now let's just say that you took an interest into one of these. What you can do is continue chatting with chat GPT, and the system remembers everything that you had in your conversation. So what you can do here is dive down even deeper into the conversation. So let's say you want to go for the pet product store. Let's brainstorm a good name for our pet store. I like the pet products idea. Please generate, you don't have to say please, but I'm a nice guy. So please generate 10 online store name ideas for the pet products niche. The natural pet shop, bark and meow. I actually like that one, bark and meow. The organic pet emporium, paws and claws. I also really like that one. The healthy hound, furry friends, the happy pet company, the perfect pet, the conscious critter and the eco-friendly pet boutique. You're probably going to want to go with that one for 2023 because as chat GPT suggested, and from what I can also learn from reading current events and also kind of getting a gist of where the future is taking us, just like it's taking us towards AI, we're also going towards an eco-friendly future. So this might be a good store name for your pet store. So let's say we decided to go with this one, the eco-friendly pet boutique. So right now what we did so far was we generated niche ideas for 2023 and we already have a niche that we want to go for. So it's going to be in the pets niche, but not just your average Joe pet store. This one is going to have high quality natural and organic products for pets, including food, toys and grooming supplies and all being made from eco-friendly material. And of course your website is going to shout out this website is eco-friendly. Everything here is good for planet earth. And I just hit the back button by accident, but that's completely fine because from a new update that just came out from chat GPT, it saves all the chats here on the left side. So I can just click back on online store niche ideas and get back to exactly where we were. Even if you close down the browser and open it up again, it will still remember your chats here on the left side. So that's another thing that I love going on with chat GPT and this update just came out recently. So good thing that you're watching this video and let's continue. So now I want to show you how you can take a product, okay, and completely revise its product description. And the reason that you want to do this is because most of the suppliers that you're going to work with are going to offer really bad product descriptions, especially if you are working with Chinese sellers. Now you could be working with a US supplier, but the product descriptions that the US supplier works with are still going to have some bad English because it could be a Chinese seller that simply imported goods to the US. And now he's holding them in a US warehouse under a US seller's name, but it's still a Chinese man who wrote down the product description in really, really bad English. And those of you who have been dropshipping or in the e-commerce business for a while, you know exactly what I mean. And even if you do have good English in your product description, but you know that so many other e-commerce sellers are using this product description, then now you can completely revise it and write a new product description. So here's how you're going to do that with chat GPT. Okay, let's go for this product right here that I have in one of my Shopify stores. So it's this winter coat right here. Here's the supplier AliExpress. And the product description is pretty bad. I mean, this coat makes you look taller and as handsome as a man. Plus you will be the spotlight and attract a lot of attentions so that you will be more confident. I'm not going to go on, but of course the English here is really bad. And we're also going to optimize the product's title. So product title and product description. Let's read the title temperament cashmere coat winner double breasted color match mid length, blah, blah, blah, blah, whole bunch of words that don't connect to one another. So let's start with the title. I'm going to copy this, then I'm going to head back to chat GPT and I'm going to ask it rewrite this product title. Okay, I'm going to paste it and hit enter. Now it's going to make more sense. So let's just kind of read through the title and see how it sounds mid length double breasted cashmere coat with color matching turned down color and pockets for women. So that actually makes sense. And when I read it out like that, I don't sound like a Chinese robot trying to translate words to English. Okay, so that's one thing that it's going to do for us. Now let's go with the product description. Okay, so first, I'm going to copy this perfect title, then I'm going to go to the product right here and auto DS and I'm going to change the product's title to the better title that we got. Okay, I'm going to save that. But now let's work on that really bad product description right here. Okay, so I'm just going to copy it from the auto DS system. I don't really need Ali express for this, but just check out all of the information and it's not being spaced out so well and not structured well just a whole bunch of texts overlapping one another and without a good structure. So I'm just going to grab all this text. Okay, I'm going to copy it that we're going to head back to chat GPT and rewrite this product description use bullet points. Okay, and I'm going to paste it and hit enter product description made of high quality polyester and wool material available in sizes medium large extra large and so forth suitable for work shopping daily wear and dating features include a double breasted design turned down color mid length and long sleeves color matching contrast as a fashionable touch keep warm with oversized pockets anti wrinkle for easy care makes you look taller and more confident but hold up a second you guys understood what's happening here right we've got all of this really really bad text let's take another look from the supplier so all of this really bad text that nobody really wants to read and that nobody's really going to read plus this really bad looking size chart now check out what chat GPT did when it comes to the size chart it actually created a size chart inside a spreadsheet that looks this good and I didn't even ask it to do so so we've got the bullet points right here which are all structured out really well starting with the material and the available sizes starting with the right information first and moving down to the less important information later and then we got this wonderful sizing chart where we can see it in a much much better way and now imagine this many people are probably drop shipping this product and 99.5% of them are using the same really bad product description right here but now you the smart drop shipper the smart e-commerce store owner you're going to have this product description right here and you're going to be the only one with this unique description no other online seller will have it you will outrank them on Google and you will get more traffic to your store and more customers will buy because they actually understand what's going on and they won't see you as an unprofessional business that can even speak the English language the right way note please refer to the size chart and choose the right size do the light and screen setting differences the items color may slightly vary from the pictures so of course we're going to leave that for the end let's copy this product description copy go back go back to auto DS and I'm going to paste it right here so just check it out now much much better with the size chart with the bullet list with the right information on top we're going to save this and we're already looking much better with the help of artificial intelligence if that's not mind blowing enough let's continue let's go back to the pet store that we created using AI so we found a good niche and we decided to go for the pets niche we found a good name for it we know how to write a good title and a good description and be 100% unique but what about what products are going to sell well so there's all of the best product finding strategies that we also share with you guys on our blog page and on our YouTube channel but let's also see how chat GPT can help us out with this and brainstorm some more creative ideas so what we're going to do now is list 10 product ideas better yet list list 10 pet product ideas to sell online in 2023 natural grain free pet food organic plant based pet treats you probably understood that we're going in this direction eco-friendly pet toys from recycled materials non-toxic natural flea and tick preventatives biodegradable pet waste bags holistic pet supplements and remedies natural grooming products such as shampoos and conditioners pet carriers made from sustainable materials reusable silicon pet food storage bags and bamboo pet utensils and feeding dishes so we already have some pretty good product ideas that we can search using our dropshipping suppliers and import their products to our drop shipping stores of course with the help of auto DS automation where we can import products in just one click whether it's one tens hundreds or even thousands of products all within a matter of seconds to our stores like we said it's all about artificial intelligence and automation this was always the future and now we're finally getting in more physical contact with artificial intelligence we already have automation and now we're adding in the second part to really be able to stand out not just automate but stand out and be unique with our stores let's move over to the next idea email marketing campaigns so you already have your pet store you know what products to sell you listed them you have great product descriptions and product titles and now you're starting to accumulate email addresses people are coming to your website and even if they're not coming to your website yet soon i'm going to show you how to get them to your website but let's say they already came to your website they subscribe to your email list now you want to start sending out email promotion campaigns so chat gpt please help us write email marketing campaigns write an email campaign for my pet store include a special promotion for 10 off for anyone who uses the promo code pets 10 make it engaging and let's see what it's going to come up with dear valued customers we hope this email finds you and your furry friends well at pet store where you can write your pet store name we're dedicated to providing high quality natural and organic products for your beloved pets to show our appreciation for your loyalty we are offering a special promotion for 10 off your entire purchase when you use the promo code pets 10 at checkout this offer is valid for a limited time only so don't miss out on the chance to save on all of your favorite pet products in addition to our wide selection of healthy and eco-friendly pet food treats toys and grooming products we also offer a range of holistic supplements and remedies to support your pets overall well-being of course you guys can edit out and edit in whatever you want but you already have a good layout for this email marketing campaign thank you for choosing pet store your pet store's name as your go-to source for all things pets we look forward to seeing you soon and helping you give your furry friends the best possible care warm regards your name and your pet store's name so this is just one example you can tell it to regenerate the response you can tell it to revise it and add this and that but you already see where we're going with this so if you have virtual assistants who are creating these creatives for you this is not a reason to fire them and tell them hey i don't need you anymore because now this is doing it for me but you can actually get them to use this and this way they're going to save their time when they're out trying to think of these creatives and get them to do more important tasks for your stores so that's one way of thinking is this going to fire a lot of people or can those people who are supposedly supposed to get fired can they actually use it and help grow our business even more so it really depends on how you see it and that is how i see artificial intelligence helping us not only now but also in the near future the next use case example that i want to show you is ad copy creatives okay so you want to run ads for your products in order to bring traffic to your store this is how you're going to do it now after this i'm going to show you the organic way of bringing traffic to your website but if you drop me in places like Shopify Wix WooCommerce and all of those online websites that you need to have a host and it's not an online marketplace then you are going to have to be responsible for bringing traffic to your store whether organically or paid so now let's see how we can help us brainstorm great creatives for our ads okay so write an engaging ad copy and let's think of the product that we're trying to sell here so let's just say it's a dog collar okay write an engaging ad copy for a dog collar made of eco friendly material add bullet points and emojis because customers like seeing emojis in the ads so here we go eco friendly dog collar keep your furry friend stylish and sustainable with our eco friendly dog collar made from recycled materials this collar is not only good for the environment but also durable and long lasting features a sleek minimal design that looks great on any breed of dog plus with every purchase we plant a tree in honor of your furry friend to give back to the planet if that's not true remove that line get your eco friendly dog collar today and join us in our mission to protect the environment now another thing you can do is give chat gpt the whole product description so it completely understands what the product is that you're trying to sell and then tell it to create an ad copy on this product and it's going to offer more product information since i didn't really give it product information besides eco friendly dog collar it did the best that it could with that but as you see we've got it in bullet points in this case bullet points made from emojis the emojis are good they're spot on and this is just one ad copy creative let's take the example that i just talked about for the second ad copy example so i'm going to take this winter coat right and we're going to take that bad product description again and use this product description to generate an engaging ad copy with bullet points and emojis okay then a line break shift enter paste all of that information and hit enter again okay now let's see the ad copy that we're going to get for that product stand tall and style with our mid-length wool coat elevate your fashion game with her double breasted color matching wool coat made from high quality polyester and wool this coat will keep you warm and stylish all season long with a turndown collar and oversized pockets you'll be the envy of all your friends plus the anti-wrinkle design makes this coat easier to care for and perfect for any occasion from work to date night available in these sizes to ensure the perfect fit package includes a coat and a belt to complete your look don't miss out on this must-have fashion piece now notice that the emojis are not going to waste they're not just randomly chosen each emoji actually brings life into the sentence that it came before and after so the emojis are actually relevant to what we are reading and besides that it did a great job with the ad copy it took all of this text all of the important information made it engaging and created a good ad copy created for us guys this is what artificial intelligence is doing for us today and it's completely crazy let's move over to our next example content brainstorming and this is because you want to also bring organic traffic to your website and enjoy sales that cost you no money to bring those customers to your site let's see how chat gpt is going to help us out with that so first of all on Shopify I'm going to go to the pages section so that I can create a new blog article piece okay so now I'm creating a new page and I'm going to attach it of course to the blog section of my website but in order to know what blog articles are going to write let's ask chat gpt for the best topics so brainstorm 10 blog topic ideas for my pet store the benefits of feeding your pet a natural grain-free diet how to choose the best eco-friendly pet toys the importance of regular grooming for your pet's health and well-being natural remedies for common pet health issues the benefits of using biodegradable pet waste bags and you guys get the idea but let's go with this one how to choose the best eco-friendly pet toys okay let's say you want to go with that idea so first of all I already have the title okay so I'm gonna copy and paste it right here now let's get to the content itself so I'm going to copy that title write a blog article about how to choose the best eco-friendly pet toys and let's get our article now while it's writing this article as we speak I'm also going to open up a plagiarism checker just to show you guys that chat gpt is giving us unique text and it's really important because if we're not using unique text then google's crawler is easily going to pick up on that and just be like okay this is another copy and paste website so we're not going to help them rank that well if your content is unique then they are going to help you rank up in their search results and when people actually read your articles it's going to help it rank higher and higher and that way you're going to get more traffic and more free organic sales without having to spend a dime on marketing and with having AI do everything for you okay so the blog article is ready as a pet owner it's important to consider not only the enjoyment and stimulation your pets toys will provide but also the impact they have on the environment yada yada yada here are some tips of choosing the best eco-friendly pet toys number one look for toys made from sustainable materials avoid toys made from synthetic materials consider the manufacturing process choose durable toys that will last a long time look for companies that give back to the environment like if you're planning a tree for every cell that's exactly what you're doing you're giving back to the environment and up for toys that can be reused or repurposed so don't go straight to the trash can and don't pollute our earth so what i'm going to do is i'm going to run a plagiarism checker i'm going to just copy all this text i'm going to paste it all right here and click on plagiarism and let's see if we've got any of that going on here okay so it's running the check right now and let's see what we've got 3 plagiarism for this one right here here are some tips for choosing the best but anyone can say the sentence that's not plagiarism if you ask me next up front but they will save you money in the long run that's not plagiarism many people can use that text and last but not least look for companies that give back to the environment that's not plagiarism so everything here is 100 unique nobody wrote a blog article with this text with these words and you know that this is unique and google is actually going to appreciate us for that and we really didn't have to put too much time into it so i'm going to paste that right now on my Shopify page and i'm going to click on save so in one minute i have generated a unique blog article that's going to help bring organic traffic to my website i can rinse and repeat this process to easily create even 20 blog articles in just one day and continue to the next tasks that will help grow my e-commerce business so we did content brainstorming we created blog posts now let's see how it can help us with social media posts so now that we have blog posts and our store is ready and we also know how to run ad creatives and more things that we did before like brainstorm our stores and what products to sell now let's see how we can write social media posts so that we can increase our brand image and get our brand known to more and more people write a social media post about my pet store and offer a coupon for first time buyers okay just to make it engaging and get people to purchase from our website hey everyone we just wanted to remind you about our amazing selection of natural organic and eco-friendly pet products at my pet store so you see how this is kind of different than the ad copy because this is a social media post so it's more friendly and it's more like a conversation from a social media group from a social media post to the people who actually read it so it's different than ad copy creatives from healthy food and treats to durable toys and grooming supplies we have everything you need to keep your furry friends happy and healthy as a special offer for first time buyers use the coupon code first pet 10 or change that to whatever you want ad checkout to receive 10% off your entire purchase we can't wait to see what amazing products you choose for your beloved pets don't forget to follow us on social media for more updates and special offers so it's already adding a call to action and i didn't even ask it to do so it just knows that this is the language of social media thanks for choosing my pet store for all of your pets needs last but not least let's see how it can help us create our legal pages and the actual pages that we need to have like the about us pages and others and these are simply pages that we need to have so let's go to the last website that i created led looper and if you want to see the whole video let me know in the comments below and i'll send you the link to led looper an online case study that i did where i showed you how i created my store from scratch invested $350 into my store and what came out of that you will see everything in full transparency this is the website i created but in any case we need those legal pages so if you see right here in the quick links i added it to the footer menu the about us page you need to create this page and you need to have the rest of your pages like frequently asked questions and so forth so let's generate these pages really quickly using chat gpt create an about us page for the pets store it already knows what pets store i'm talking about it knows that we're going for that echo friendly one because you know we've already had we're still inside this conversation so it remembers everything and now it's continuing to generate if i would give it my store name it would stop saying pet store under brackets but i didn't tell it that i chose that pet store name so we could have done that but welcome to pet store we're a family owned business that is passionate about providing high quality natural and organic products for pets our mission is to help pet owners give their furry friends the best possible care while also protecting the environment and you can continue reading this if you want but this is a perfect example for an about us page it's got all of the important information like who we are what our mission is the things that we are committed to thank you for choosing us we look forward to serving you and your furry friends for many years to come and that's a perfect about us page so what i'm going to do is i'm going to copy it okay and head back to Shopify go back to my pages if you don't have an about us page you can create one in this case i can just click on my about us page and change it to this one okay just fill in the brackets with the right info and that's pretty much it you got your about us page and you can add more essential pages that you need like frequently asked questions so generate 10 frequently asked questions for my pet store and now i'm going to be able to create a frequently asked questions page and i don't have to search the internet for what people are asking or try to bother my customers by asking them what questions they have so here we go what type of products do you offer how do i know which products are right for my pet do you offer any special deals or discounts how do i place an order how do you ship your products do you offer returns or exchanges these are really the most frequently asked questions that customers usually ask when they're shopping at a store for the first time do you offer any warranties or guarantees do you have a loyalty program and so forth so copy all of these questions create a frequently asked questions page and continue creating all of your essential pages add them to your footer menu add them to the header menu and this way you can easily generate all of the needed pages that you need for your online store so this video went on a little bit longer than i intended if you enjoy the value here and you want to learn more on how you can use chat gpt to help automate and scale your e-commerce businesses let me know in the comments below and i will create a follow-up to this video with more strategies that i couldn't fit inside this video don't forget to subscribe if you haven't done so to our youtube channel where you're always going to learn about the next step in your e-commerce business thank you for watching good luck with chat gpt and i'll see you in the next video


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Some people think this brush stinks. I'm not one of them, but it's called skunk brush. This native shrub is found all over Wyoming, mostly on rocky ridges, but sometimes with pine trees or in grassy areas. Its species name Trilobata is descriptive of its leaves, which have three lobed leaflets. Skunk brush is kin to sumac and poison ivy and is actually in the cashew nut family. Skunk brush is considered poor livestock forage. However, deer often prefer it to other browse and flickers, grouse, turkey, and other birds feed on the fruit. Indians also ate the red fruits, either raw or cooked and sometimes boiled them for tea. A dried powder from the fruits was made into lotion to treat smallpox sores. The stems were great for making baskets and the leaves were sometimes mixed with tobacco and smoked. Plants are either male or female. The female has dense clusters of yellow-green flowers in the spring and bright red fruits that ripen in July and persist into winter. They'll grow almost in any landscape situation that is well drained. Now, you don't have to like the taste or even the smell of skunk brush to appreciate that it's a valuable Wyoming native. I'm Tom Hill from the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service.


Hi everyone, this is Gicho. Welcome to my channel and welcome to another live stream. Today is February 13th 2022 and we're doing a live stream open discussion on current events, news, politics, economics and everything else in between or on the outskirts. I hope you're doing well. I hope you're enjoying your weekend. Today is Sunday, it is 9am and it looks like we're going to do one of these every week minimum. Well let's say one of these is something other live stream, at least two live streams a week. I'm getting back into a nice rhythm now. Maybe we'll work our way into three live streams per week but for now we're basically going to be doing one on Sundays and one on Mondays and one of those will be current events and one something else and for those of you who are interested in more towards the live streams that are slanting towards personal finance, economics and whatnot, we will be doing a current events live stream tomorrow, tomorrow at 11am. Aside from that while we wait for notifications to go out, let me do my little intro which will include the redirection from sensor tube to free speech sharing platforms because there's no way we can talk about whatever we need to talk about on sensor tube but if you're interested in following this work I am on patreon patreon.com forward slash chico c h y c h o for those of you that are supporting this work on patreon gang thank you very much for the support it is in large part by a long shot because of the support we're getting on patreon as well as the support we're getting on twitch that we're able to do what it is that we are doing metadragon how are you doing so gang it's been a while i hope you're all doing well indeed metadragon interesting times interesting times for anyone interested in history politics economics current events humanity society evolution forbidden knowledge technology there is there is no other period as far as i'm concerned that has been as interesting as is now so if you're of the caliber that can handle process what is taking place this is these are really amazing times amazing times what a great day it is a beautiful day we're getting an early spring on the west coast of canada fingers crossed right we'll see where it takes us but it has been amazing could we discuss the ukrainian situation today metadryans i was pretty sure and i'm pretty sure the ukrainian situation is definitely going to be part of the discussion indeed it is extremely important craziness that along with other things the two of the most important things taking place right now is a trucker convoy that is happening global now began with canada uh so freedom rallies as well as the ukraine the the war drums pounding right as distractions not to mention the economics of of what's taking place which we will most likely talk about today as well but we'll focus on tomorrow war is inevitable in my opinion i used to be on the mindset that it wasn't going to be however the way the command commodities are moving oil and metals are moving it it is pointing towards either a serious pump and dump that's taking place right now which is one of the reasons that family as a hedge acquired puts in in metal company and an oil company that have had an amazing run right so that's the hedge but if the war drums are indeed uh going to lead up to war family also has puts on numerous other companies on the markets as well as have liquidated half their long positions now the god i saw in a few i saw it a few months ago mongolia are sending a lot of steel to rush are they yeah yeah steel prices are through the roof steel prices are going mad and tell you the truth that if there is going to be war it's not going to be long lasting it's going to be a blitz right it's interesting times and gang i do announce these live streams 30 minutes before we go live on mines vk gap harley getter and bit cloud you can follow work there as well as joining our discord which is a lot of discussion taking place on many fronts and mods i forgot to mention this mods on twitch gang thank you very much for being here and taking care of business as well as everyone else for joining us for these live streams and discussions we will be uploading the audio of this live stream to soundcloud.com forward slash chit show as a podcast and this podcast should be available in your favorite podcasting platform including Spotify and iTunes and google play and this live stream will not be loaded on sensor 2 but it will be loaded in this entirety on bit shoot rumble and odyssey and the links will be in the description of this video if you're watching this little short few minute intro on sensor 2 aside from that we're going to the chat and the live stream if you're on sensor 2 the full live stream links in the description


Good morning and good afternoon. So let's make a start. So for this session, this is the first session of the emerging technology and the behavior. So in this session, we have four speakers and our first speaker in the column, Loplin, and he will talk about the domestication relationship between the virtual learning environment and engagement and containment and outcome. So please welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you all for coming. Big proud. Excellent. I haven't done this for a few years. I'm quite nervous. I like to pace up and down. So you have to excuse me. My colleague, Ben is a statistician. Are there any statisticians here? Good. That's what I like to hear. So I can bluff away quite happily in that knowledge. I started getting interested in VLE analytics a few years ago at my previous institution. I noticed a sort of a trend that I didn't get a chance to investigate. So I've been investigated it this year. And it's all to do with the amount of time that students spend in the VLE. The big buzzword in HE at the moment is engagement. If we can just get the students to engage, everything will be all right. But will it? Is there such a thing as too much engagement? And the spoiler is, yes, there probably is. And the other thing is that I haven't looked at this for a couple of weeks. So I've got to see what's, I don't actually know what's on the slides. What does a student engagement look like? In our terms, it's how long they spend in the VLE. And my particular project was how long they spend in the content in the VLE, not in any other area. So not in whether we're on the homepage or in the discussion forum, or in any of those other ancillary things. It's just purely whether they're in the content areas. Up until a few years ago, it was very difficult to provide any correlations between face-to-face teaching and engagement with the VLE, generally because the stuff on the VLE was so poor that the students, whether they engage with it or not, was not a really accurate reflection of what was happening in the course. That seems to have changed in the last five years. And we have been able to prove, we have been able to prove correlations between engagement. There's generally now a correlation between engagement and the amount of time they spend in the VLE. But the other thing I've noticed is, and particularly since the pandemic, is far more of this, far more of lecturers coming in and saying, where are the students? They're not engaging. And these are all lecturers who are posting pictures of their empty, empty lecture rooms. And I was wondering if that's the same with the VLE. As I say, the focus is on engagement. If we can just get them to engage, everything will be okay. And it's sort of seen as the holy grail. If we can just get them to engage, that will be fine. So the definitions of student engagement are time and effort, students devote to education, education and purposeful activities. And that includes activities such as attending class, submitting assignments, interacting with lecturers and peers. And the authors identify different dimensions of engagement, including behavioral, emotional and cognitive. I'm looking at behavioral. I'm looking at how they behave with the VLE. And unlike some institutions, we haven't got a great deal of money or a great deal of time. So I'm looking for relatively simple measures of engagement. The measures remain complex. They often remain differentiated by discipline. So different disciplines have different levels of engagement with the VLE, different ways of doing that. The individual students, their individual psychology means that they engage with their learning in different ways. So you can't always, you cannot predict from individual student engagement what their outcomes are likely to be. And the other thing is that the correlations with the VLE are often weak. So there's generally a correlation. There's generally a positive correlation between the amount of time they spend in the VLE and their academic outcomes as measured by exam results. But the correlations are generally weak. So in an effort to refine the relationship, a lot of people with more time and money than we have start looking into really complex dimensions of how they're going to model it, including demographics of students and all that sort of thing. Other people have pointed out that there are correlations with students who have high activity in high grades and other students have high activity in low grades. But they're generally in the past, in the literature, they've generally been dismissed kind of as outliers really. So yeah, as I say, the student engagement with the VLE, it remains complex. But it can be a proxy. It's not a direct relationship. There isn't a direct relationship between the VLE and our academic outcomes. But it is a reasonable proxy. So the most basic unit of learning data in virtual learning environments is the interaction. And there's no consensus yet on which interactions are meaningful for demonstrating effective learning. So I want to talk about the data that I was looking at. I was looking at, because the correlations were weak, which I already knew, I was only looking at large cohorts. So I was looking at cohorts with more than 200 students or at least more than 200 students enrolled. And I was taking the amount of time they spent in the VLE, measured in seconds, and this is just in the VLE content in no other areas. And then their exam scores. And as we can see, in this particular one, there is a correlation, and it's 0.46, which is about, which is actually quite strong for a VLE correlation. They're normally, they're generally a bit weaker than that. And the correlation line here, just for anyone who doesn't know. So this is the best fit line for all the students. So if you take all the dots which represent individual students, that's the neatest line you can take through. And the steepness of the line indicates the strength of the correlation. And the spread indicates how how strong the correlation is. If it was a stronger correlation, the dots would be closer to the line. Can I just show you the speaker? Sorry. The speaker's sound? Oh, right. Okay. Thank you, pardon. Okay. All the modules I looked at had a correlation. Again, it varied, but it was it was a similarish sort of pattern. So these are then the averages. So this is the, don't worry too much about the fact that the average was only 40.42.8%. That's a different conversation that so many students failed. But that's the average. That's the mean. And that is the mean of the time spent in the VLE, which was 60 hours in this case. So this is a module. All these modules are 15 credit modules, which is equivalent to 150 hours of study. And in this case, they spent 60 of those hours looking at content in the VLE. So these students in this quadrant are the students who don't engage very much with the VLE and don't score very well. So that's not probably a massive surprise. These students spend more than average in the VLE, but also score higher than average, which again, probably not a massive surprise. These are the lucky ones who spend not very much time in the VLE, but still score pretty well. And these are the students I've always been concerned with. The students who spend more than average in the VLE, but score less than average in the VLE. And as I say in the literature previously, they've kind of been dismissed as outliers and not really discussed in any meaningful way. But actually, there's quite a number of them. And my view has always been that in terms of engagement, these are people who are willing to put in some time, but are not getting the rewards out of it. So that's the purpose of this really is to try and pick up on these people and give them some extra support. So in this particular case, this individual here has spent 217 hours in the VLE.  Bearing in mind that the entire study time allocated for this module is only 150 hours. That meant they've done more than that, just doing the VLE without doing anything else. And clearly, as they scored 42%, their time could probably have been better spent. So I've sort of enlarged it to include that whole group, the whole group that are spending far more than average in the VLE, but but achieving less. The interesting thing is, as I say, this line, this regression line applies to the whole cohort. And people don't generally look beyond that. But because I was interested in this group here, I did. And when I did a regression just on that group, it becomes inverse, which means that the more time you spend in the VLE, the worse you're likely to do, which is obviously counterintuitive. And I'm definitely not suggesting that the VLE is causing them to do worse. Just that the people in this sort of area are spinning their wheels and no matter how long they spend in the VLE, they're not going to improve their scores. So that goes to an inverse correlation of 0.135, which is not very huge, but it is inverse. So that's when I brought in the statistician, because I thought, well, I've got a more complex model than a simple linear regression here. So where are you? Yeah, so that's it. Yeah, the more time the students spend in the VLE, the worse their exam scores. Now, it's important to say that this is very limited in that I'm only looking at the VLE, I'm only looking at exam scores. And we all know there's, but learning is far more complex than that. But I've reduced it down to a very simple measure. The interesting thing I found, and I've not had time to explore this further yet, is that if you take the Penocto views, just the views of the videos or the lectures, you don't get the same thing. If I look at that, the relationship stays positive. In fact, it even increases the more time they spend in that content. So there's something peculiar, which is the next part of my project, is to understand what it is that they're doing in the VLE or not doing. Because as I say, it doesn't stack up with Penocto views, the lecture recording views. So this is the summary of the modules I looked at. This is the cohort size. One had 170, the rest for all over 200. And what I'm looking for is patterns. What I'm looking for is something I can hook on to, to, to provide an intervention. And as I say, I covered, across six modules, I covered four different disciplines. And when I was looking at it before, I covered yet another discipline, same pattern in all of them. But interestingly, at the meantime in the VLE, this one here is 12 hours. And that one there is 73 hours. So there are obviously, across the disciplines, there are very different requirements, different levels of content. The learning design is obviously very different in those modules. So that's, that's kind of understandable because different disciplines, I have no idea what the learning design is in any of these modules. I can't even remember the disciplines now. But so there's no pattern there. There's nothing, there's nothing to really hook on to, just purely with the number of hours. There's also the R squared number is just the, the strengths, the correlation. And as I say, the one that we were looking at was 0.56, I think 456, which is actually quite strong for VLE correlation. They're not normally that strong. And then the weakest one was down to 0.19, which is very weak. And what it means, what that means is that those are the uninitiated is that, so for instance, in the 0.191, it means that their interaction with the VLE can account for about 19% of the result as a percentage. But again, there's no real pattern there. And there's no real pattern here. So I was looking at the point at which they inverted. So when the, when the correlation went from positive to a negative relationship, I was looking at what point that was. But again, very wide variation. So one, on one of them, it was just over 100%, just over 100% of the mean and the relationship inverted. For another one, it was nearly 400%, nearly four times the average before that relationship inverted. So again, there's nothing, there was nothing really for me to hook into there. But this was interesting. So double the mean, double the average time spent. So in this one, average was 12 hours. When you get up to 24 hours spent, then the relationship disappears. The positive relationship between time spent in the VLE and their exam results disappears, which means that no matter, once you get to that point, no matter how long they spend in the VLE, they're unlikely to improve their outcomes. And for me, that's the, that's the goal, because it's a really simple measure that, and it also doesn't rely on anything. Most of the models are picking up struggling students, rely on some kind of feedback, some kind of exam, or some kind of formative assessment, where you can measure their scores and see how they're doing. This doesn't need it, because all I'm looking at is how much time they're spending in the VLE. And I can tell after about three weeks, who's spending double the time of everybody else. And that gives me a clue then to, to, you know, start our intervention. So this is just generalizing that pattern I've been describing. So there's the correlation, positive correlation. That's double the mean, that's double the time, the average time that they spend in the VLE. This is the point at which it becomes no significant difference. And then at some point after that, it actually inverts. So when I, when I first discovered this, I had a, I had a conversation with ChatGTP. And it assured me that change point analysis was the, was the, what I was looking at. And change point analysis, and I liked it. I liked the name. I thought that's cool. We'll go with that. So change point analysis, using Bayesian methods is a statistical method that aims to identify the point at which a significant changing occurs in the parameters of the model. In this method, a Bayesian framework is used to estimate the location of the change point. At the time, I was thinking that would be useful. But as I've discovered that the point at which that changes is so variable, it's actually not going to be that useful. It's interesting. And we can use it to predict or Ben can use it to predict all sorts of interesting things, but only really with hindsight. It can't predict stuff. It can't, we can't say using this method at what point students are going to start struggling. We can only really use it and analyze it once we've completed our sort of courses. When I went to Ben, he said that I was completely wrong to use Bayesian change point analysis for reasons which I can't remember now. And he wants to use this locally estimated scatterpot smoothing, which is a form of polynomial regression. Well, actually, I think Bayesian change point is as well. But the, it's a different type of pattern. Basically, it breaks, it breaks instead of taking the linear regression as one long line, it breaks it down into into a much smaller series of straight lines. So you still get, it's still a linear regression, but it's a, it's a series of linear regressions. And what we end up with is a kind of a U shape really at the end of the day. I'm not sure if I've got, I thought I'll maybe come back to that because I think he's given me, he's given me an estimation of what it looks like. But basically, all the patterns of a horseshoe shape. But I kind of lost interest in the stats when I realized that it's not going to tell me anything useful in real time. It's nice for analyzing afterwards, but in real time, all I need to know is that double the average. That's when the students, we need to think about an intervention. So the next steps for this project are, we need to do more work to understand the relationships from the statistical perspective of Ben does. We'll also be looking at other things because we can plug in other things relatively easily, like some demographic data. Because I'm wondering about the students. I was just going to, yeah, so I'm wondering about the students who are up here, for instance, versus the ones who are down here. And I'm wondering if there's a demographic feature of those that could actually refine, target our intervention more closely. I'm going to do some focus groups with the students who fall into that category to try and understand what they're doing for 230 hours. What could they possibly be doing for 230 hours? And we're going to relatively quickly generate a predictive model, which as I say, we can pick up struggling students after three weeks instead of nine weeks, 10 weeks using this method. And I'm working with the skills centre in the library to actually set up a special programme that is because these students, I think, have really been under service, the ones who are actually prepared to put in the time and effort, but are really struggling. Because at the end of the year, they're just going to be dismissed as failures and the effort they've been putting in will go largely unrecognised. At its simplest level, it's just identifying students spending double the mean time in the VLE. We don't have to wait for exam scores. We can use this after two or three weeks. Yeah, we may have discovered a relatively simple correlation. The thing is that this is a relatively small number of students, but it's not an insignificant number of students. It's somewhere between 5% and 10% of the cohort that are falling into this category. So although it's a small number, it's not insignificant. I sort of rattled through that because the last time I did this, we had a really conversation, a really good conversation afterwards, so I'm hoping that there are some questions. Yeah, very interesting. The investigation, particularly from the data analytics perspective, people have some quantities of the relationship between the engagement with the attending all the time. So are there any questions or are there some any questions? No, no. So if we'd done this study five, six years ago, we would have had virtually that correlation, the basic correlation probably wouldn't have existed in most cases. I think it was heading this way. I think the pandemic has shot up a bit in terms of most academics are now aware of the VLE and how to use it a bit more effectively than they were before the pandemic. So it's not just a repository for a huge amount of academics now. It is used in a much more deliberate way. No, no. And to be honest, I know I don't. I do know that our university, like most others, has struggled with physical attendance. I have no idea about, but to be honest, that was the purpose of doing this was that I didn't want to know anything about anything else. I just wanted to know, given just some raw data, is there anything I can say about this group of students? Is there anything I can, you know, how can I identify them early? And that's why I found it interesting to do a number of disciplines. I didn't even look at the VLE pages for the modules I looked at. So I have literally no idea what the learning design was in them or how many content items there were. I know that there were some videos only because I went to check the Palopto to see if it had the same correlation. Well, exactly. It's a blunt instrument. It absolutely is. You can't tell if they go into a page and then just leave it open and go make a cup of coffee. Absolutely can't do that. You can't tell it. Obviously, they could be downloading it and then switching it off. Could absolutely be doing that. So no, it is absolutely a blunt instrument, but it does measure the amount of seconds they spend with that page open and with it as the primary window. As soon as they click out of that window, it stops the timing. But the thing is, as I said before, once you get up to more than double three or four times the average, the odd cup of coffee or whatever is not going to make, there's still something to be said there. Is there any way to tell what the bias of the screen is? Yeah, interesting. Really interesting. Yeah, that's another thing to plug in. Yes, we can find out. No, I didn't. So for the purposes of this, I didn't, but we absolutely can. And that's something else to consider when we're looking at plugging in demographics, you know, which route they came to university by and all that sort of stuff. Okay, so I just have a question. Because we have so many people in the after. You're talking at the start about splitting off the behavior of the vitamin game, proportional cognitive. I wonder what your signals about how you might reach and find the emotional cognitive back into this. Well, I think certainly some of the more complex models definitely involve the cognitive. They can start. But my institution, I just don't have the resource. I'd love to be able to do it. I'd love to be able to look at how they're engaging with specific items. Are there specific items that this group pick up on that the others don't? What are the really successful students in this sort of area? What are they doing? How are they engaging with it? Yeah, there are so many great questions. But with a really limited resource, I have to use a relatively blunt instrument. Okay, so let us thank you for the calling. Thank you very much.


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Welcome to our program of KK Handic State Open University. Dear viewers, I, Indrani Kalita from Department of Education KK Handic State Open University today going you to present your topic on role of ICT in the field of education. So viewers, we all know what is ICT because in our general term we used the concept of ICT in our everyday life but what actually the ICT means that is we are going to proceed now. Our first concept that is what is it that is what ICT is. It is actually an acronym that stands for information communication technology. Actually there is no universally accepted definition for ICT because the concept methods and application involves in ICT are constantly goes on changing. In simple term we can see ICT covers any product that will store, retrieve, manipulate, transmit or receive information electronically in a digital form. For example the things which we are using in our day to day life that is the personal computers, the digital televisions, emails, robots etc. Now comes here what are the uses of ICTs. Now today ICTs includes laptops, wirelessly connected to the internet, personal digital assistants which are low cost video cameras and cell phones which become affordable, accessible and integrated in a large section of society throughout the world. Now ICT can be used in a two ways. One as a tool and another as a method. So as a tool we can use ICT in a four ways. First is the informative tool. It provides vast amount of data in various formats such as audio, video and documents. Secondly it is a situating tool. It creates a situation which the students experiences in real life thus simulation and virtual reality is possible. Thirdly it may be used as a constructive tool that means to manipulate the data and generate analysis and fourthly it may be used as a communicative tool. That means it can use to remove the communication barriers such as that of space and time. Now the second use of ICT that is as a medium. So what are the mediums through which we can use the concept of ICT? The mediums are in a three ways that is voice, video and print. In the voice medium we can use the instructional audio tools that include interactive technologies as well as the passive ones. In the video sense we can use the instructional video tools that include still images, pre-recorded moving images and real-time moving images combined with audio conferencing. And thirdly the ICT can be used as a medium as a print medium. In print medium the instructional print formats that includes textbooks, study guides, workbooks and case studies. Now we all know that ICT can be used in a two-form that is the tool and as a medium. So we can say here ICT is also allowed for the creation of digital resources like digital libraries where the students, teachers and professionals can access research material from any place at any time. Use of ICT in education develops higher-order skills such as collaborating across time and place and solving complex real-world problems. It improves the perception and understanding of the world of the student. Thus ICT can be used to prepare the workforce for the information society and the new global economy. Now we all know that ICT is being used in the classroom teaching at the present world because the today's wall is the world of technology. So we cannot just say that ICT is being used only in the higher level only in the distance education. No it has been used in different stages of education. So we must know what are the stages of education where the ICT at present is being used. The first ICT is being used right at the primary level in the present 21st century. So how the ICT is being used in the primary level? The use of ICT provides ways and means of improving as well as shortening the general education period so that students can grow as good satisians and at the same time meet the demands of technological society. This can be achieved through two strategies. One is through curriculum development and another is through appropriate methods of instruction. Now ICT in higher education. So ICT is not just a new activity as it started out as a computer assisted learning that is CAL. Earlier its use was restricted to a small specialist group of enthusiastic academics but now our approach should be to view the role of ICT in terms of the way it can affect conventional teaching situations. Our third concept that is ICT in distance education. We all know the distance education provides learning to the learners with the help of the latest technological devices. It is nothing but the use of ICT in the field of education. Multichannel learning is the hallmark of distance education. The successive generation of distance education have actually built up upon only exception in the internet generation where all the challenges have been integrated into one. Even in the intermediate version distance instruction adopt the following delivery modes. So these are the modes where the distance education is distance education has used the ICT mediums for providing learning to the learners. First is the printed material. Second the radio and television. Thirdly audio and video program. Fourthly personal contact or interactive and fifthly the formative that is in text questions and summative that is end of module test. Now we have learnt how the ICT is being used in two form that is as a tool and as a medium. We have also came across the concept how ICT is being used in different stages of education that is primary higher even in the distance education. Now what are the tools that is being used which we are seeing as ICT in the field of education. So these are the technological devices which are used in all the field of education right from primary to the higher and that of the distance education too. Firstly the e-readers. So electronic readers are like small and flat computers capable of holding vast amounts of information particularly electronic version of books. Secondly it's the laptop computers. While computers used to be bulky machines relegated to desk offices and labs laptops allow students to take their computers into the classrooms. Even without the internet laptops make it easier for some students to take notes in class electronic notes and can be sent to peers who did not attend class. Thirdly the another electronic device that is mp3 player. So it may also be used for classroom purpose. We all think mp3 player is only used for the music purposes or for the video purposes or with your audio purposes but it can be used for language classes because mp3 player is very much effective to learn different kinds of languages in the classroom. With the help of mp3 player the student can listen to and practice their verbal communication outside the classroom. Next is the interactive whiteboard. It can be used to display computer images like slideshow presentations and videos and to make real-time notes that the class can see. Combining the advantages of traditional blackboard with a computer technology enables teacher to increase the interactivity of their lesson and to save them for future classes. So in the traditional mode we have seen the use of blackboards but now the ultimate use of ICT we can see in every classroom situation right from primary to any other stages of education. The use of interactive whiteboard is a very common one. It is the most useful one through which any kind of class recording can be presented for the future purpose. Next is the overhead projectors. It is a very basic but reliable form of projector. It displays images onto a screen or wall. This saves time since the transparency can be pre-printed and used repeatedly rather than having materials written manually before each class. Next is the educational television. It is the most potential means for educating masses that means this form of educational television is not only used in the formal education system but it is also used in the non-formal and informal system because a huge masses for the purpose of adult education we can give a small example that is the purpose of adult education we can use the educational television because it helps to give education to a large masses at the same time. So it helps in narrowing the gap of progress between developed and developing countries of the world. It can be an important central media in providing functional, formal and non-formal education to the masses of this world. Next is it's a very common one that is teleconferencing. So teleconferencing or interactive television is a two-way electronic communication between two or more individuals who are at a separate locations. It combines TV viewing with interactivity of the internet and personal computer. Another electronic gadget that is tele lecture. It is primarily a one-way information transmission taken by the teachers with a very limited opportunity of questioning or comments. It is usually followed by pre-telecast preparation and follow-up. Next is the video. It is important medium of learning which is being used on a large scale in modern times and we can also add here that video is the most important and the most latest technology which is being used in the field of education because through video the learning can be most effective because we all know whatever the students see besides reading whatever the students see they can learn it more. So the latest things which is used in the field of education is the education given through videos. Next is the video text. It involves the transmission of display text and graphics and their reception on a television set. Now video text is of two types. One is the broadcast video text and another is the interactive video text. It is very useful in distance education in disseminating information regarding courses and programs available. Now how can ICT enhance classroom teaching? That means we can also in a simple form we can also say what kind of merits or advantages of ICT for classroom teaching. It is useful both in the conventional traditional modes in every kind of education system. ICT is one of the gifts it is a kind of gift of God. It is a kind of gift of science which has been given in the field of education. So ICT helps enhance the classroom teaching in the following ways. Here the first is use of ICT minimizes the gap between the teacher and the taught. It has made the learning activity in classroom students centered. It has enhanced the ability of creative thinking among the students. It saves time, money and effort. It encourages to pay individual attention among the students. It helps in the curriculum construction of classroom teaching scientifically. So overall after giving a discussion about what is ICT? How the ICT is being used in the classroom teaching? What are the electronic gadgets that are being used as a form of ICT in the field of education? In a very brief in a concluding remark I would like to say in order to educate students to be lifelong learner and successful contributors to the new global market educators must change the way they teach and the way the students learn. We need to remember that if we want to help the students to achieve a high level of competency and competitiveness we have no choice but to make technology an integrated tool in the field of education. That's all. Thank you.


Can Christians have a demon? Yes, but the conversation comes up often. As a matter of fact, I think too often as to whether Christians can have a demon. I think oftentimes the questions, the thought patterns are just phrased wrong, the focus is wrong, but I wanna go ahead and deal with this issue. Obviously not once and for all because some people are not going to listen. Some people are gonna, their minds are already made up as to what they think or they know, think they know about demons and also what they're missing what they're not paying attention to. And this is actually kind of a hotly debated topic but it gets into this idea, can Christians have a demon? And I would just say, if Christians cannot have demons then why did Jesus ever do deliverance ministry to begin with? Why did any of the early church do deliverance ministry to begin with? Why not just get everybody saved? Let them pray a prayer of salvation and baptize and let that be done. But the fact is that's not how either the apostles did it, that's not how the early church did it. They walked people through deliverance. Daily deliverance is up until baptism and sometimes after. Okay, so his whole concept, his whole premise is flawed. One, why did Jesus do deliverance? Remember, no one at the time that Jesus is casting a demon out happens to be saved. No one that he's ever cast a demon out. Matter of fact, no one in the Bible that ever had a demon ever was a believer ever had the Holy Spirit in them. We don't have an example of that. Notice that after the Holy Spirit has come into every people group no one has an issue with demons. We're not told about demons. Afterwards, we're not told about in terms of demons being in someone. We're not told about how to deliver someone. All the problems that the churches may have, the letters that Paul has written, James, John and so forth, even in Revelation, no one brings up the fact that we need to cast demons out. And so I think the focus is wrong. Now, I made the statement in the initial that asking can Christians have a demon? And I said, yes, but what's the but? What do you mean? Well, the but is this, Christians can have a demon but not in them. They can have a demon around them. They can have a demon in their neighbor who might not be saved. Someone who is not a believer can have a demon and then come in contact with the Christian. It's not as though that the person who is a believer who has placed their faith in Christ has the Holy Spirit and has the ultimate strongman in them who has the, you know, the greater is he, the Holy Spirit that's in you. They have that, that person cannot be possessed by a demon. Stop with the thought pattern that what you have in you is not as great as what's outside of you and that what's outside of you can come in and take over, remove the strongman. That goes counter to what we know with the power of the Holy Spirit is. But what I think people are failing to realize is this, there is a counterpart to demons. No one is saying that there is no such thing as demons. Matter of fact, there are demons, there are a bunch. How many? Not sure. However, we know that those demons are outnumbered. By who? By their counterparts. Remember, the Bible tells us in Daniel 7.10. Notice what he says here. A river of fire was flowing and coming from out from before him. That's God. Thousands upon thousands were attending him and myriads upon myriads were standing before him. The court sat and the books were opened. Now, who are the thousands upon thousands? Who are the myriads? Angels. The counterparts to demons are angels. Why do we act as though there are demons who are active? But we fail to think about the fact that there are also angels who are active. And even above them, who else is even more powerful who's active? Well, I know who it is, the Holy Spirit. We tend to ignore those two things. But we wanna focus on someone telling us that there's a demonic presence or a force that's infected us. No. Is there a demonic activity? Sure. Should we be surprised there's a demonic activity around us? No, we should not. However, if there's a demonic activity, ask Daniel, there's also angelic activity that will thwart and counter the demonic activity, especially if you are a believer. And so, why don't we focus on demons? Well, we don't have to. We've got someone dealing with them. But what does the Bible say? The Bible says that in James 4-7, it says resist the devil and he will flee. Well, if the command is to resist, and oh, by the way, this isn't the imperative, so the command is to do so, which means you can resist him. Well then, that means we can resist him. How so? Well, there's power in what we're doing. There's power that's working in us, and there's also outside forces that's enabled. We'll come to that in just a little bit, but we need to understand that something about these angels, again, the counterparts, the demons, what about them? The Bible tells us that they are mighty. In Psalm 103-20, it says, bless the Lord, you his angels, mighty in strength who perform his word. So these angels are mighty. Why do we act as though these angels are cute?  They're playing harps and moving around with these big, gigantic, ferocious chain-breaking demons that they're running amuck, and no one can stop them. Remember, these angels are just as powerful, if not more powerful than the demons. They're fallen angels, but they're still at least two-thirds of the angels did not fall. So what does that mean? One-third, two-third. Which number is greater? And which one has the greater backing? Which one has the power of God behind them? Remember what angels are doing, what their goal is. The Bible says in Hebrews 1.14 that they are not, are they all not ministering spirits sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation? So what are angels doing? It's not just enough to say that there are twice the number of angels as there are demons, but even more to the point, what are the angels doing? It'd be one thing if the angels were working on behalf of everyone on the planet, but they're only working on behalf according to this passage. Now, we don't have a whole lot of information about angels, nor do we have a lot of information about demons. So, but what we can glean, what we can see, let's see if we can kind of glean something, is telling us that they're working for the service, as it says, for the sake of those who will inherit salvation, so those who are believers. So all of those who are believers against those who are non-believers. Well, it would seem to me that these demons are outnumbered and those aims that are working on our behalf, there's a stronger presence because they're not out defending or working for everybody on the planet just for the benefit of those who are saved and those who will be saved, obviously. They are ministering spirits serving on at God's behest for the work of His kingdom, obviously for the people who serve and live in His kingdom by being us as believers. Which kind of helped maybe explain a little bit of what Matthew 18 is saying in verse 10, it says, See that you do not despise one of these little ones for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of my Father who's in heaven. Now, is that to say that everyone has an angel? Probably so. I would have to say that everyone has an angel. How many angels does each person have? Don't know. Is there an angel assigned to a specific person, angels over a certain people? I have no idea how it's done. We just know that they're there. They're working on our behalf and they do forth in. So is there demonic activity? Absolutely. Without question, the Bible says, however, that our weapons that we use, the weapons of our warfare, I'll go ahead and read for the King James Version, of our warfare is not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. One thing we need to do is, as he says, bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. How about you bring into captivity the thought that tells you that you can be controlled by some outside force? How about you do what the Bible says, resist him, because all he says once you do so is he will flee, which means you can do so. How about you bring those thoughts to tell you that you can't do it? Those thoughts to tell you that you have no control, that it's a demon that has more power than God, that when he says who has a son and that set free, how about you stop letting people tell you that you're not free indeed until someone else sets you free and then, oh, by the way, you're not totally free. Keep going back to get free. How about you bring those thoughts into captivity? Why don't you let the knowledge of the Lord be pervasive in your life? Why don't you believe that he is who he says he is, that he can do exceedingly above all that you can ever hope or imagine? Why don't you believe that? Why don't you let that be the dominant thought? Why don't you, as Paul says, focus on the good things, where everything is noble, where everything's of a good report or good repute? Why don't you focus on those things? Why do you spend so much time focusing on demons who are outnumbered and outpowered by a larger force and a more powerful force? Why don't you focus on that? So can a Christian have a demon? He can have a demon as a neighbor. He can have a demon driving beside him on the highway. He can have a demon that he works for or coworkers. Yeah, demons are everywhere, but do we worry about them? No, we should not. Why don't we worry about them? Because the Bible doesn't tell us to worry about them. Find the passage where the Bible tells us to worry about them. Find the passage where the Bible tells us to be afraid of them. Find the passage where the Bible tells us that we have to fear them, obey them, look out for them. No, we don't have such passages at all. What we do have are passages that focus on our walk in Christ and the power. It's not as though that the writers of the Bible, the New Testament writers, those who speak about us, have in the Holy Spirit, who they themselves have been empowered to write by the Holy Spirit. It's not as though that they just conveniently looked over the fact that this great force is out there, these demons, they looked over that and forgot to tell us that. No, they didn't tell us it because there's no need to tell us that. Why? Because our focus is on Him who can separate, now unto Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, that Him, God, that's who your focus ought to be on. Amen.


This paper proposes a deep learning technique-based data-driven model for urban flood prediction. It integrates LSTM networks, Bayesian optimization, and transfer learning techniques to achieve fast and accurate predictions. The model was tested in a case study in northern China and demonstrated its accuracy and efficiency. Compared to other models, it has shown superior performance in terms of speed and accuracy. Furthermore, the model's transferability was also validated by applying it to a new case study. This article was authored by Q-Show, S-Tang, Z-Situ, and others.


So high expectations is something that teachers would have heard a lot of. You need to have high expectations of your students. But I think putting it into practice has been more challenging for people. And the concept of high expectations, which has come about through a lot of research, is that it has a couple of key principles. And one is that you've got to have a lot of care for your students. So it's about building relationships and building trust. And then the second part is about providing multiple advanced opportunities for learning, which often teachers don't realise they're not doing. Low expectations would mean that students do not develop the skills to think for themselves. They'll see learning probably as knowing the right answer, not that there might be more than one answer or it's about justifying the answer or thinking more critically about what you're doing. So those are the opportunities they must. And with today's climate of change everywhere, everything's changing so rapidly, actually we need to be developing those skills in our students so they've got a better chance to cope with what's ahead. The presentation I gave to the teachers to start building the belief around high expectations and exposing them to those ideas was partly the research and so the background that I've just explained. And the second part was actually my own inquiry. So as a teacher, the most recent inquiry I did into my practice using the high expectations model. And I had good relationships with my students already so I was really focusing on providing multiple advanced opportunities to learn. And so I shared that with them. I showed the statistics of what the students had done in their previous year, gave them some examples of the different things we did and then was able to show the increase in student achievement. And one of the things I think that stood out the most was the number of students in my class that went my target group and also had big improvements. So I think that was a significant thing. I thought the Building Belief presentation was really insightful and thought provoking. It was good to have someone experienced in it come to talk to us. I think as teachers we're creatures of habit so it's always good to have an outside voice and a new voice being able to explain it to us. A part of high expectations teaching itself is that you believe you can make a difference for the students. I think if you don't believe in it, then you might try something out of compliance but you don't understand or get the reason behind it so you don't really have that ownership going in. The high expectations Building Belief presentation changed my way of thinking in terms of giving my students the chance to think, giving them opportunities within the classroom to think I think as teachers we all have high expectations but I think for me it was recognising and developing opportunities to see higher order thinking through my teaching. We are very aware that students will have all sorts of things going in their lives that might make it harder for them to learn but it's about the teacher having the belief that while they're with me I can make a difference for those students and that really underpins high expectations teaching itself.


The importance of reading for bilingual multicultural children Raising bilingual kids is nowadays becoming a common family matter, it is easy to find multicultural families around the world these days According to research published on the website Trend, global migration has highly increased since the 1960s People seeking a better life with financial and educational gains, resulting in multicultural families with bilingual or multilingual children The mix of cultures and a family Multicultural families faced the same kind of challenges as any other families in the world However, they also have to deal with other issues related to family or culture traditions, religion, locations, language, among others Deciding what language children should speak is something that parents are concerned the most, particularly when it comes to reading skills Considering that speaking skills may come naturally from being exposed to those languages Why reading is needed? Reading to children has always played an important role in the development of language skills such as vocabulary knowledge and phonological awareness The ability to recognize and work with sounds in spoken language Bilingual children have two vocabularies and two types of phonology to learn, reading is the best tool to expand their knowledge in both languages starting at a very early age Children are surprisingly perceptive and the sooner we start reading to them the better Children are amazingly capable to absorb language knowledge Research shows that they can learn to read and write in two languages at the same time, especially if both have a similar alphabet but not exclusively Parents should not be afraid of introducing texts on both languages The fact is that this will be very beneficial to develop fluency and make kids stronger readers Isn't it enough to speak? People might think that speaking to the kids in two languages is enough for them to be able to learn it properly However, the vocabulary we use every day can become repetitive and limited Reading offers us the possibility to enrich the bilingual kids' vocabularies with words or phrases that they do not hear in normal conversations daily Plus if we provide them with a great selection of different topics that create interest, we ensure to instill a love for reading It is well known that reading improves listening skills, concentration and understanding But there is one more thing in particular that we need to consider the most when it is about reading to multicultural children Reading enhances curiosity, this could be used as a great opportunity for parents to introduce books regarding their native countries and cultural roots Having a clear understanding of where they come from can build up confidence and helping them to understand who they are, even when they are very young, a three years old child, for instance Reading for training other abilities As it is the case of monolingual children, reading develops a child's imagination and creativity, promotes brain development, teaches them to connect with their emotions and grow empathy When a child can put himself or herself into the story and identify with the character, means he or she is beginning to understand and feel empathy by relating to other people's emotions Parents could also use reading as an opportunity to interact and bond with their children, asking them and allowing them to ask questions is important We can encourage the use of the language that it is being used in the book Do you want to teach English abroad? TEFL course It is incredible to think that such a simple and easy activity like reading to our children can bring real benefits to their lives More than half of the world's population speaks two or more languages in the present, the world is becoming more competitive and our children need to be ready for it So we need to highlight the importance of reading in this process Reading to our bilingual children is a great place to start that would lead them to succeed later in life, speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today


In this study, researchers investigated the feeding habits of fishes living in the Rosana Reservoir, southeast Brazil. They observed nine species of fish, including hemogrammus marginatus, roboids perinensis, hyphysobreconeques, astynax ultrapyranii, serosalmus spiliplura, and bryconamericus terminius. These fish were found to be either invertevores or algevores, depending on their diets. Invertevore fish such as hemogrammus marginatus, roboids perinensis, and hyphysobreconeques fed primarily on aquatic insect larvae. Algevores fish such as astynax ultrapyranii, serosalmus spiliplura, and bryconamericus terminius fed mainly on filamentous blue-green algae, diatoms, and paraderm. This indicates that these fish have distinct feeding strategies, which may help them coexist peacefully in the same environment. This article was authored by El Qassadi, H. F. Mendez, and K. M. Ferreira.