Instead of just relaxing, answering the comments in the previous post, reading something new, and playing some normal board game for the last lessons in the module, what am I doing instead?
Revamping a whole game... So that my amazing students don't get bored, get to revise the covered vocabulary and use their 4C competences....
Basically, it would be too long of an explanation, so I decided to record an audio, go ahead if you'd like to know what horrendous idea (for my sanity) struck my brain this time around 😅
Instead of just relaxing, answering the comments in the previous post, reading something new, and playing some normal board game for the last lessons in the module, what am I doing instead?
Revamping a whole game... So that my amazing students don't get bored, get to revise the covered vocabulary and use their 4C competences....
Basically, it would be too long of an explanation, so I decided to record an audio, go ahead if you'd like to know what horrendous idea (for my sanity) struck my brain this time around 😅
Oh no. There’s a certain degree of myth-making around what exactly went on, so take everything that follows lightly. Telegram was originally launched as a side project by the Durov brothers, with Nikolai handling the coding and Pavel as CEO, while both were at VK. But because group chats and the channel features are not end-to-end encrypted, Galperin said user privacy is potentially under threat. Asked about its stance on disinformation, Telegram spokesperson Remi Vaughn told AFP: "As noted by our CEO, the sheer volume of information being shared on channels makes it extremely difficult to verify, so it's important that users double-check what they read." Given the pro-privacy stance of the platform, it’s taken as a given that it’ll be used for a number of reasons, not all of them good. And Telegram has been attached to a fair few scandals related to terrorism, sexual exploitation and crime. Back in 2015, Vox described Telegram as “ISIS’ app of choice,” saying that the platform’s real use is the ability to use channels to distribute material to large groups at once. Telegram has acted to remove public channels affiliated with terrorism, but Pavel Durov reiterated that he had no business snooping on private conversations. On February 27th, Durov posted that Channels were becoming a source of unverified information and that the company lacks the ability to check on their veracity. He urged users to be mistrustful of the things shared on Channels, and initially threatened to block the feature in the countries involved for the length of the war, saying that he didn’t want Telegram to be used to aggravate conflict or incite ethnic hatred. He did, however, walk back this plan when it became clear that they had also become a vital communications tool for Ukrainian officials and citizens to help coordinate their resistance and evacuations.
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