So, have you heard of cleverbot? It’s something that has been spreading in popularity at Cab Calloway. Especially with Comm. students. What is cleverbot? Well, it’s a sort of “robot” that answers anything you write correctly. Apparently, you can have long interesting conversations with the computer that looks back on everything you have written. Kelsey Dennison said that “It’s really cool how it takes what people said before and uses it as its answer, but it is sort of creepy.”
Okay, then. To the students it’s an amazing entertainment that can be extremely fun, but what about teachers? What do they think? Well, Mr. Mayo, our middle school Comm. Arts teacher, probably sees the most use of it by students, since students have access to the computers in his class. He says, “I know that students are getting on there when they should be working.” That will probably be the reaction from most of the teachers.
What is cleverbot? Is it a harmless, but entertaining program or is it distracting students from what needs to be done? You decide.
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