Using AI to Expand Vocabulary
If you are dyslexic, dyspraxic, on the spectrum or have ADHD, you may have trouble understanding some reading material.
When you move on to another level of education or you want to look up something complex on the Internet, what comes up may be hard to read. Perhaps you’re taking a class and some of the concepts are just hard to understand.
Perhaps you don’t have the relevant background knowledge, or the vocabulary to take it in, understand it, process it and use what you have just read.
- Step 1. Read it in short sections. Perhaps 100 words, a paragraph, or the abstract of the article. With every such section, make note of one thing you’ve learned and one thing you would still like to know.
- Step 2. Feed the section into the AI program and ask it to explain it to a ten year old. Read that explanation. Add what you know now to your notes. Think about the differences.
- Step 3 (optional). Ask the AI program to explain it to a four year old. Seriously, some material (in our experience – technical stuff, such as IT, or logic), sometimes really starts making sense with this step.
- Step 4. Go back to the original and reread the original. Why bother? Because this gives your brain the chance to read the original version with the understanding you bring to the reading. You may find that the meaning, vocabulary, concepts, are now clearer.
By taking these steps you can begin to read independently at the level that you’re aiming for. Which is of course the goal of this exercise.