How I use ChatGPT to help me learn

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ChatGPT can summarise and translate text, provide the history of something, or explain a complex topic in a simple way. Here are some prompts to help with different kinds of learning.

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There are four categories of things I do the most with ChatGPT:

Check out the other posts for tips on using ChatGPT at home, work, or to have fun, but this time we’re learning…

Help me learn

If you want the video version, here’s a 4min run through:

Here are five prompt ideas to try (prompt text in bold), and how they turned out.

Summarise an article, like “summarise this article: [and paste your article link or text]” (I used this one.)

ChatGPT prompt "summarise this article: [and paste your article link or text]" and its response

Explain something complex in a simple way, like “explain how ChatGPT works in simple terms”

ChatGPT prompt "explain how ChatGPT works in simple terms" and its response

Explain the history of something to me, like “explain the history of Aboriginal Australia”

ChatGPT prompt "explain the history of Aboriginal Australia" and its response

Translate from one language into another, like “translate this text into Spanish: [and paste your text]”

ChatGPT prompt "translate this text into Spanish: [and paste your text]" and its response

Create flash cards for studying, like: “create spanish flash cards for learning common household items” or “create flash cards for the following content: [and paste your text]”

ChatGPT prompt "create spanish flash cards for learning common household items" and its response

How have you been using ChatGPT to help you study, or learn about things? Any neat tricks you’ve found? I’d love to hear them!

So far there are four posts in this series, check out the others:

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