Once you decide to go down the rabbit hole of Gen AI tools, you will find that there are just so many tools out there.

As an ex-General Paper teacher (for the uninitiated, this subject basically involves pre-tertiary students writing an argumentative essay under stressful exam conditions), I used to find it challenging to get my students to dissect an issue from various angles. To the extent that I used a funny mnemonic to entice their minds to internalise all these angles into their long term memory - SPERM. Nope, not teaching sexuality education here. SPERM here refers to:

S - Scientific, Social P - Political E - Economic, Ethics R - Religious M - Military, Moral

Anyway, I stumbled upon Twee the other day. You know, any self-respecting AI educational tool will have a PPT slide generator, worksheet generator, and asking-questions-out-of-YouTube-videos generator, among others. But what sets it apart from its competitors out there is that Twee offers a unique 4-opinions feature.

I just needed to type my question, and voila! it generated four different topics on my prompt. Of course, the perspectives were not as distinctive as the viewpoints generated via the SPERM framework. But I thought this was brilliant for junior high school students as well as struggling college-bound students. In fact, this feature is one of the sections in the Reading component of the Workplace Literacy and Numeracy assessment in Singapore. This illustrates how important it is to be able to decipher another person’s opinion at the workplace.

I jubilantly believe that the judicious use of this Twee feature will help make some of my students realise that coming up with different perspectives is actually not as difficult as climbing Mount Everest!

Motivated to continue journeying down my rabbit hole that will save my precious cognitive powers for the more significant tasks on my plate.