The problem of nude deepfakes, maths, physics geometry homework help, teach children with ChatGPT in the classroom
This week
1/ 📚Education: ChatGPT in the classroom to engage students
2/ ⚡️Social: What we can learn from TikTok influencers
3/ 🔍 Research: Social media use regret types
4/ 🦉Learning: Maths, physics, geometry homework help
5/ 🛜 Online: The problem of nude deepfakes
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Tina
1/ 📚Education
ChatGPT in the classroom to engage students
ChatGPT “is to English and to writing like the calculator is to math.”
There are two options facing teachers: show their students how to use ChatGPT in a responsible way, or expect the students to abuse it. ChatGPT doesn’t always get things right—but teachers are finding that provides its own way to engage students.
In this article, a student used ChatGPT to generate a rap about vectors and trigonometry in the style of Kanye West, while geometry students used the program to write mathematical proofs in the style of raps, which they performed in a classroom competition.
In an English-Language Arts class, students reading Shakespeare’s Othello used ChatGPT to translate lines into modern English to help them understand the text, so that they could spend class time discussing the plot and themes.
ChatGPT was also used by a teacher to produce simplified versions of readings on the causes of terrorism for 14-year-olds who either read at lower reading levels than the rest of the class or have been learning English as a second language.
2/ ⚡️Social
What we can learn from TikTok influencers
Young people, most without any health or medical training or qualifications, are building careers on TikTok sharing about mental health topics:
She is not a mental health clinician — until recently, she worked as a real estate agent. But two years ago, a TikTok video she made on “manifesting,” or using the mind to bring about desired change, attracted so much attention that she realized she could charge money for one-on-one coaching, and quit her day job.
At first, Ms. Chung booked one-hour appointments for $90, but demand remained so high that she now offers counselling in three- and six-month “containers.” She sees no need to go to graduate school or get a license; her approach, as she puts it, “helps clients feel empowered rather than diagnosed.”
With the extensive use of TikTok by young demographic groups Harvard researchers have realised the best way to reach young people with their research is probably through these individuals, and have piloted a program to provide creators with research backed advice to disseminate through their videos.
Whilst not all were able to (e.g. creator with videos comprising dances or gazing at the viewer ‘with an expression of unconditional love’). However the experiment overall worked with the content reaching over 800,000 people through unpaid content by 42 influencers.
And what of the scientists?!
“In some cases, Ms. Mahler said, they spend 10 years on a research project, publish an article, “and maybe it gets picked up, but sometimes it never reaches the general public in a way that really changes the conversation.”
“My heart kind of breaks for those people,”
Mine too.
Social media content creators may not be experts in the topics they take on, but they do have a talent for communication. Everyone looking to communicate more effectively, especially academic researchers, could learn from engagement tactics of social media creators to improve the reach and knowledge of their work, message or research. The art of storytelling, sharing experiences and distilling complex ideas into digestible pieces of information to name a few.
🔗 Harvard Cozies Up to #MentalHealth TikTok (NY Times)
3/ 🔍 Research
Social media use regret types
Although we don’t need a research paper to let us know we regret social media app use too often, this paper teases out three regretful usage patterns:
Three regretful usage patterns were identified:
(1) content depletion due to frequent checking habits
(2) feature tour and unconscious deviation from original motivation
(3) falling down the rabbit hole in an infinite stream of bite-sized contents - because of the short nature, it is hard to resist the thought of using “just a bit more”
Design interventions suggested to mitigate regretful interactions included real time visible monitoring of daily limits or time spent, or a nudge about other things to do instead.
🔗 Reflect, not Regret: Understanding Regretful Smartphone Use with App Feature-Level Analysis (Association for Computing Machinery)
4/ 🦉Learning
Maths physics, geometry homework help
Google has added new updates to Search and Lens that make it easier for users to get assistance when solving math problems. To use it, type the equation into the Search bar, or take a picture with Lens to get a step-by-step explanation or solution.
If you’re on a desktop computer type in ‘math solver’ into the search bar to access.
When checking this out I also noticed the Microsoft version, which is an App that includes explanation videos.
🔗 Math Solver (Microsoft)
5/ 🛜 Online
The problem of nude deepfakes
The circulation of nude deepfakes of teenage girls have made headlines this last week in Europe and the U.S.A due to separate incidences of young women and minors being the subject of nude deepfakes without their consent.
Deepfakes are already here, and they will get more convincing and cheaper to produce over time. In this case they were created with an app that enables the creation of 25 nude deepfakes with photos from your camera for 10euros.
The proliferation of deepfakes has already meant that we need to teach children and young people to assume out of character or sensational photos or videos aren’t real unless they are from an official source, and even then, they can be from dubious sources or mistakenly used. Deepfakes will mostly be believed by an impressionable minority that already believes fake news. However regardless of how many people see and believe deepfakes, those subject to being faked, suffer reputational damage and sometimes traumatising experiences as a result.
(Euro News)
🔗 Luis von Ahn founder of the popular language-learning platform Duolingo explains how Duolingo harnesses the psychological techniques of social media and mobile games in this TED talk.
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