While the rise of large language models (LLMs) has created rich new opportunities to learn about digital technology, many on the margins of this technology struggle to gain and maintain competency due to lexical or conceptual barriers that prevent them from asking appropriate questions. Although there have been many efforts to understand factuality of LLM-created content and ability of LLMs to answer questions, it is not well understood how unclear or nonstandard language queries affect the model outputs. We propose the creation of a dataset that captures questions of digital newcomers and outsiders, utilizing data we have compiled from a decade's worth of one-on-one tutoring. In this paper we lay out our planned efforts and some potential uses of this dataset.

This study explores how discussing metaphors for AI can help build awareness of the frames that shape our understanding of AI systems, particularly large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Given the pressing need to teach "critical AI literacy", discussion of metaphor provides an opportunity for inquiry and dialogue with space for nuance, playfulness, and critique. Using a collaborative autoethnographic methodology, we analyzed metaphors from a range of sources, and reflected on them individually according to seven questions, then met and discussed our interpretations. We then analyzed how our reflections contributed to the three kinds of literacies delineated in Selber's multiliteracies framework: functional, critical, and rhetorical. These allowed us to analyze questions of ethics, equity, and accessibility in relation to AI. We explored each metaphor along the dimension of whether or not it was promoting anthropomorphizing, and to what extent such metaphors imply that AI is sentient. Our findings highlight the role of metaphor reflection in fostering a nuanced understanding of AI, suggesting that our collaborative autoethnographic approach as well as the heuristic model of plotting AI metaphors on dimensions of anthropomorphism and multiliteracies, might be useful for educators and researchers in the pursuit of advancing critical AI literacy.

Tele-medicine has recently gained popularity in healthcare [9]. Digital sessions reduce preparation and travel time for patients and has been found to improve patient outcomes and reduce hospital visits [3]. Other digital solutions now allow treatments to occur in the patients home. Remote physio therapy has been tested where patients meet with a physio therapist, via tele-conference, to view live demonstratations ofcorrect exercise techniques, and then access a database of exercises with reference images and videos to follow while performing rehabilitation exercises without remote human supervision [11]. The digital skills divide among older adults can limit their access to health services, as well as other services that rely on digital technology [5]. This has the potential to exclude them from the ever-increasing number of services and advancements such as those mentioned above. Digital technology has been found to be empowering for elderly users when they are designed with the elderly in mind [2], specifically by facilitating daily activities [6]. Many physical challenging life factors, such as reduced mobility and social contact, can be addressed through the use of digital technology, motivating many programs aimed at increasing digital literacy in the elderly population such as [8]. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page.

Dr. Cindy Gordon's 2022 Top Musings from her articles to read/reflect upon in 2023. Well it is New Year's eve, December, 31st, and only twelve hours before midnight and I am writing this final article. I decided that I would review all my Forbes articles and rank them based on the number of views, so if you only have ten articles on AI to read in the NY, I hope that these musings will inspire you to advance your knowledge of AI and leadership - as we all have much work to do to build a more sustainable, private and ethical AI world. Even Elon Musk states this is likely a good thing. Read the article and decide for yourself?

I was recently a guest speaker at the Sales Leadership Conference organized by Dr. Karen Peesker, Co-Founder of the Sales Leadership Institute, a department at the Toronto Metropolitan University (formally Ryerson University) in Toronto, Canada. The conference was hosted by the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University (Formerly Ryerson University) in collaboration with HEC Montreal and Ivey, funded by SSHRC, IT World Canada, Microsoft, DHL, Rogers, RBC, CPSA, and other community leaders. The conference goals were to bring university professors, students, industry leaders, and academicians to share their learning programs, identify gaps and requirements to advance the sales profession and most importantly, tackle a vision for the future of sales. The strongest theme of the conference was the business imperative for advancing digital literacy, data literacy and ensuring that technology was firmly embedded in all sales learning programs. Digital literacy is best defined as an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and clearly communicate information and knowledge through using diverse digital platforms.

Smart cities are supposed to represent the pinnacle of technological and human advancement. They certainly deliver on that promise from a technological standpoint. Smart cities employ connected IoT networks, AI, computer vision, NLP, blockchain and similar other technologies and applications to bolster urban computing, which is utilized to optimize a variety of functions in law enforcement, healthcare, traffic management, supply chain management and countless other areas. As human advancement is more ideological than physical, measuring it comes down to a single metric--the level of equity and inclusivity in smart cities. Essentially, these factors are down to how well smart city administrators can reduce digital exclusivity, eliminate algorithmic discrimination and increase citizen engagement. Addressing the issues related to data integrity and bias in AI can resolve a majority of inclusivity problems and meet the above-mentioned objectives.

Humankind has always been fascinated with the idea of getting things done quickly. Since ancient times, inventors have used their intellectual brilliance to address contemporary problems and make life easier for people. In the field of education, the invention of paper, for example, encouraged the dissemination of information across different sections of society. Similarly, exceptional persons continued contributing to the development of the education system in one way or another. Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in the limelight, especially in Higher Education.

Cheryl Cran is a future of work expert and founder of NextMapping. She is a globally known Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker and has a long term successful track record with clients that include small, medium and Fortune 500's businesses. She has also been named as #1 Future of Work Influencer. She is also the author of over 5 books, on business and leadership. Bringing with her vast experience, we are happy to have someone of her stature on our interview series today. We have the pleasure of welcoming Cheryl Cran today to our interview series. Before we begin, just a quick intro of PeopleHum. We run the peopleHum blog and video channel which receives upwards of 200,000 visitors a year and publish around 2 interviews with well-known names globally, every month. Welcome, Cheryl, we're thrilled to have you.

A program at Georgia State University is widening the scope of digital literacy to include problem-solving and leadership strategies. Most every college or university recognizes the importance of digital literacy to future graduates, and increasingly, you'll find technology competencies and digital skill development experiences included widely in general education programs. But at Georgia State University, leaders within the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning are making certain that GSU's digital literacy offerings will spawn not only technically competent individuals, but also a diverse range of professional leaders who know how to use their technology skills in context for better problem solving. Digital Learners to Leaders is an experiential learning program aimed at developing the next generation of digital problem solvers through industry/higher-education partnerships and exposure to digital technologies and the Internet of Things. DLL began as a co-curricular program, seeing its first cohort of 45 students in Spring 2018.

There are five important dimensions that we must address as part of securing humanity's future in an automated world and ensuring that the advances in technology are used to serve humanity--not replace it. Reframing Society--We are reaching a truly dramatic point in human history where a number of exponential technologies are being combined to deliver radical performance improvements. A powerful mix of unleashed imaginations applied to disruptive technologies is catalyzing a possibility revolution across every aspect of human life, society, government, and business. As a result, in the next few years, society will be challenged to confront fundamental issues that go to the core of what it means to be human. Advances in science and technology will test every assumption we have about how our world works and the purpose of humans within it.