Writing : AI a game changer, BUT...

Friends, yesterday we spoke about how technology impacted reading skills, especially for children. But there is always a good side of a coin. As far as writing skills are considered, AI ( Artifical Intelligence) has almost replaced human involvement. It too has many areas of concern.

Writing skills require combination of cognitive, linguistic and creative skills. It requires coordination of brain, eye and hands. Brain which generates and organizes ideas, eyes that guides hand movements and helps in maintaining proper formatting and hands which controls pen for handwriting. 

Writing is a complicate process which requires multiple skills to get the effective outcome.

AI has made our work faster, very less efforts required in coming up with right contents for right audiance with right style of presenting (including visual presentation) in a fraction of seconds. Yes this is a breakthrough. Strengths of AI is its speed, precision and scalability. 

The tools generated by human beings are acting smarter than humans. 

But as per my view, human is god's creation and no-one can replace god's beautiful creation. I think robots will never replace humans but will surely replace efforts made by humans. God has given human a gift of emotions, feelings, unlimited brain power, creativity, imagination and many more. These things in true sense might not be possible to achieve by AI. 

It's good that our education system has so far not allowed children to use AI as part of academic exams and evaluation. Believe me friends, anyways we are not using more than 2% of our brain and if we start using AI completely,  we will stop using even that too. If we do not use AI just as a tool, in near future humans will than act like robots and robots will act like humans...

So use AI but keep writing and let kids also learn to write. 

Here are some ways in which we can still keep ourselves engaged in writing:

• Prepare To-do list everyday this will help plan your routine and keep your writing habit part of a daily routine.
• Let kids make hand-made greetings cards in family occassions
• Involve kids in hand-writing competitions
• Explore Calligraphy to kids

(Note: A recent study monitored brain activity in students taking notes and found that those writing by hand had higher levels of electrical activity across a wide range of  interconnected brain regions responsible for movement, vision, sensory processing and memory. Writing once is as good as reading the same content almost ten times in terms of memorizing it.)

• Hand writing can describe personality so explain them importance of hand written skills
• Keep checking notebooks of your child and help them work towards improving them
• Teach them multiple languages atleast mother tongue, research says that brain has significant capacity in learning languages and learning multiple languages can restructure the brain to enhance its abilities.

It's a balance that we need to make, use technology as a tool in writing while maintaining criticality and originality in writing to oneself.

Keep our brain engaged and lets move in hand-in-hand with AI world. 

By- Rupal