Digital Literacy Quiz ♥️

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If we are learning together, we are growing together. // Si aprendemos juntos, crecemos juntos.

Planeta.com’s Digital Literacy Quiz builds on presentations and workshops starting in the late 1990s(!) – upgrading your world. The target audience are our allies and practitioners of eco / conscious / responsible / sustainable lifestyles, education, and travel. What are the most productive ways of using the social web? // El Cuestionario de Alfabetización Digital de Planeta.com se basa en presentaciones y talleres que comenzaron a finales de los 90(!): “Mejora tu mundo”. El público objetivo son nuestros aliados y quienes practican estilos de vida ecológicos, conscientes, responsables y sostenibles, la educación y los viajes. ¿Cuáles son las maneras más productivas de usar las redes sociales?

What’s new? Updates on Google Docs. Adventures with AI. Google Notebooks, aka NotebooksLM.

It’s impossible to keep up with everything all the time, so we come back to our go-to apps and social web channels and ask: how to make the most of it.

Suggestions are welcome, and the quiz can be shared freely. If you reuse images or graphics or adopt some these reflections, please provide attribution and when possible, links back to Planeta.com.

Consider this an open, untimed, DIY quiz. We break down the apps, devices, platforms, and networks that change at an accelerated rate. Test yourself on features you want to learn or think you can add to our shared wisdom.

Headlines
Meta’s new AI image maker draws fire over consent
If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic
Meta and Google found liable in landmark social media addiction lawsuit – ABC News
The 49MB Web Page – thatshubham – Daring Fireball: ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’
‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images – Popular Science
How to talk to grandma about ChatGPT
The World Still Hasn’t Made Sense of ChatGPT – The Atlantic
I’m only using an AI browser to watch YouTube now, and it’s incredible – xda-developers
From photos to fitness data, recording our lives is changing how our brains work – ABC
Behind the Curtain: The scariest AI reality – Axios
Micro USB is the bane of my existence – The Verge

YouTube
Apple Explained ♥️

Core Skills: Basics

• Are there apps that you actively avoid?
• Are you comfortable with voice writing?
• Are you comfortable with collaborative notetaking?
• Have you used more than one browser?
• Have you shared photos and videos?
• Have you paid attention to your notifications?
• Have you taken screenshots from your phone and computer?
• Bonus points: Have you searched for a song using Shazam?
• Where are the chargers? // ¿Dónde están los cargadores?

Basics: Casting and Mirroring

• Are you able to cast your phone screen to the television? // ¿Eres capaz de transmitir la pantalla de tu teléfono a la televisión

Printers

• Do you have a wireless printer? // ¿Tienes una impresora inalámbrica?
• If you wanted to print a calendar or event info, would you use a commercial or home printer? How easy would this be? // Si quisiera imprimir un calendario o la información de un evento, ¿utilizaría una impresora comercial o doméstica? ¿Qué tan fácil sería esto?
• Is your printer connected to a mesh network? // ¿Está su impresora conectada a una red de malla?

Identity

• Have you updated your profile image? // ¿Has actualizado tu imagen de perfil?

Artificial Intelligence // Language Models

Devices

• Login on more than one device // Iniciar sesión en más de un dispositivo (aparato)
• Record a timelapse video // Graba un video en cámara rápida

Browsers

• What is your favorite browser and why? // ¿Cuál es tu navegador favorito y por qué?
• Have you checked for updates for your browsers? // ¿Ha buscado actualizaciones para sus navegadores?
• Are the browsers synced across devices? // ¿Los navegadores están sincronizados entre dispositivos?

Facebook

• Have you created an account on Facebook? // ¿Has creado una cuenta en Facebook?
• Have you created a public photo album? // ¿Has creado un álbum de fotos público?
• Have you commented on a friend’s post? // ¿Has comentado la publicación de un amigo?
• Have you liked a friend’s post? // ¿Te ha gustado la publicación de un amigo?
• Have you adjusted notifications on or off for your friends? // ¿Has activado o desactivado las notificaciones para tus amigos?
• Have you updated your cover photo, aka avatar? // ¿Has actualizado tu foto de portada, también conocida como avatar?
• Have you downloaded an image from Facebook? // ¿Has descargado una imagen de Facebook?
• Mobile users: // Usuarios móviles:
• Do you have the Facebook app on your smartphone? // ¿Tienes la aplicación de Facebook en tu smartphone?
• Have you checked in to a particular place? // ¿Se ha registrado en un lugar en particular?
• Have you accepted or rejected a Facebook Invite? // ¿Has aceptado o rechazado una invitación de Facebook?

Google Notebook

WhatsApp

• Have you created an account on WhatsApp? // ¿Has creado una cuenta en WhatsApp?
• Have you logged in on your laptop? On your phone? // ¿Ha iniciado sesión en su computadora portátil? ¿En tu teléfono?
• What version of WhatsApp are you using? // ¿Qué versión de WhatsApp estás usando?
• Have you chatted with contacts via direct message? // ¿Has chateado con contactos por mensaje directo?
• Have you left a voice message/voice note? // ¿Has dejado un mensaje de voz?
• Have you listened to a voice message/voice note? // ¿Has escuchado un mensaje de voz?
• Have you changed your mood message? // ¿Has cambiado tu mensaje de estado de ánimo?

YouTube

• Have you created an account on YouTube? // ¿Has creado una cuenta en YouTube?
• Can you login on your laptop? On your phone? On your tablet? // ¿Puedes iniciar sesión en tu computadora portátil? ¿En tu teléfono? ¿En tu tableta?
• Have you faved a video? // ¿Has marcado un video como favorito?
• Have you uploaded a video to YouTube? // ¿Has subido un video a YouTube?
• Have you subscribed to a YouTube channel? // ¿Te has suscrito a un canal de YouTube?
• Have you created a playlist? // ¿Has creado una lista de reproducción?

Advanced Questions

• Have you adjusted your YouTube account notifications? // ¿Has ajustado las notificaciones de tu cuenta de YouTube?
• Have you viewed your YouTube channel statistics? // ¿Has visto las estadísticas de tu canal de YouTube?
• Have you turned off an advertisement on YouTube? // /¿Has desactivado un anuncio en YouTube?
• Have you created a custom thumbnail image for your video? // ¿Has creado una imagen en miniatura personalizada para tu vídeo?
• Have you changed the license setting for any of your videos? // ¿Has cambiado la configuración de la licencia de alguno de tus vídeos?
• Have you reviewed your viewing history? / ¿Has revisado tu historial de visualizaciones?

Zoom

• Have you created an account on Zoom? // ¿Has creado una cuenta en Zoom?
• On what devices do you have Zoom installed? Phone? Tablet? Computer? // ¿En qué dispositivos tienes Zoom instalado? ¿Teléfono? ¿Tablet? ¿Computadora?
• Have you participated in a Zoom call? // ¿Has participado en una llamada de Zoom?
• Have you initiated a Zoom call? // ¿Has iniciado una llamada de Zoom?
• Have you shared a screen? // ¿Has compartido una pantalla?
• Have you mirrored a Zoom call on a TV monitor? // ¿Has reflejado una llamada de Zoom en un monitor de TV?

Nerdy Gadgets

• Create a countdown timeanddate.com/clocks/freecountdown.html
• Create a wordcloud wordclouds.com
• Translate something translate.google.com
• Capture a web page via the Internet Archive / Wayback Machine – archive.org/web

Business Owners: If you own a brick-and-mortar business, have you claimed your space on Facebook? On Google? If you have, claim double points.

Essay
Our view: upgrading communication skills is a worthy goal of its own. And yes, it’s a road without end. In our nearly 30 years of being an online portal, Planeta.com has had numerous interactions with good people doing good things who were stumped when it came to communicating their experiences, needs, and lessons learned. Whether it’s a website or discussion elsewhere on the web, they had few ideas how to share their experiences and goals and tended to complicate instead of simplifying communication strategies.

The digital world changes so frequently, it is impossible to keep up with all of the options, upgrades, and alternatives. Somehow it seems ‘you have to be everywhere at once.’ Our digital literacy skills, particularly for those working in education, conservation, and tourism, need to be challenged and upgraded on a regular basis if we need to be effective collaborators.

Are we personally comfortable? Can we explain this to others in a friendly and helpful manner? This questions will be explored and hopefully articulated online.

The quiz tests us all, including your humble host, Ron Mader. Remember Planeta started with gophering was popular. If you see ways we can improve our usage of these and other new tools, speak up!

History
The quiz has been used in tandem with ongoing workshops and our 2010-2021 celebration of Responsible Travel Week. Participants choose what they want to learn and score their own performances. We use various social media channels / networks / platforms and learn how to be more engaging on the social web.

Internally, the Quiz is part of our ongoing, effort of cyber housekeeping — updating content and the widgets embedded on our website to cheer on fave examples around the globe and co-create an enabling environment. If you encounter broken links or widgets that do not show up properly, please let us know.

Stray Notes

• Test yourself. // Nosotros estamos aprendiendo juntos. Pruébate
• There’s a plus side for improving the visibility of noble goals such as regenerative and sustainable practices. If there are disconnects, it’s time to heal them. // Hay un lado positivo en mejorar la visibilidad de objetivos nobles como las prácticas regenerativas y sostenibles. Si hay desconexiones, es hora de sanarlas.
• We settle into routines, which can be comfortable, perhaps too comfortable.// Nos adaptamos a rutinas que pueden resultar cómodas, quizá demasiado cómodas.
• Be willing to learn and play. // Estar dispuesto a aprender y jugar.
• Don’t be surprised if you end teaching others new ways of using these devices. // No se sorprenda si termina enseñando a otros nuevas formas de utilizar estos dispositivos.
• No one ticks all the boxes // Nadie cumple todos los requisitos

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