DL 356

Revamping Salvation

Hello all, welcome to Digitally Literate, issue #356.

🔖 Key Takeaways

📚 This Week’s Highlights

iA explores the profound role of human language in a world increasingly shaped by AI.
Why this matters: Language connects us as humans. The challenge is maintaining its essence in a digital-first world.

Zoha Qamar discusses how educators navigate ChatGPT’s limitations and its potential in classrooms.
Why this matters: ChatGPT’s outputs lack the nuance of human creativity and critical thinking, but its integration can inspire new teaching methods.

Testing Heyday, an AI app that resurfaces forgotten web content, reveals its potential for improving online reading and memory.
Why this matters: We’re bombarded with information online. Tools like these can help differentiate value from noise.

Laurie Santos reimagines her famous course, The Science of Well-Being, as a free offering for teens.
Why this matters: Teen mental health is in crisis. Empowering youth with tools to improve well-being is a critical step forward.

A live-streamed experiment with motion-tracking software resulted in a pet fish accessing its owner’s eShop account and adding funds.
Why this matters: A lighthearted reminder of the unexpected intersections of technology and everyday life.

🛠️ DO: Improve Your Writing with QuillBot

QuillBot offers paraphrasing tools, grammar checks, and a summarizer to help refine your writing. Available as a Chrome extension and Microsoft Word add-on, it’s a handy AI-powered assistant for enhancing clarity and style.

🌟 Closing Reflection

“What is it that makes us human? It’s not something you can program. You can’t put it into a chip. It’s the strength of the human heart. The difference between us and machines.”
— Marcus Wright, Terminator Salvation

Reflect and Engage

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