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Are you ready to supercharge your productivity, creativity, and problem-solving skills? Meet ChatGPT—the AI tool that’s changing how we work, learn, and innovate. Best of all, you can access it for free right from your Windows desktop!
In this tutorial series, I’ll guide you step-by-step through everything you need to know about ChatGPT: how to set it up, ask the right questions, and leverage its potential for blogging, learning, and beyond. Whether you’re a curious beginner or a tech-savvy pro, there’s something here for everyone.
Let’s dive in and discover how AI can make your life easier, more efficient, and a lot more fun!
🧭 Introduction: Change Without Memory Is a Threat to the Future
In my tutorial “Understanding Is Becoming More Difficult When the Basics Haven’t Been Learned…“, I highlighted how forgetting or dismissing the achievements of the past can hinder — or even sabotage — our understanding of today’s world.
Too often, in the name of “progress,” certain elites push to erase everything: educational models, social benchmarks, principles of respect, and coexistence. Modern liberalism, often misunderstood and applied without safeguards, promotes this ideological tabula rasa, where everything that once was is deemed obsolete, and everything new is blindly celebrated.
But what should NEVER be done when seeking deep, lasting societal change is to destroy the old indiscriminately. To do so is to forget the very foundations upon which solid thinking is built. The danger? Creating a floating society — rootless, without reference points, vulnerable to technological drift and mass manipulation.
What should NEVER be done when attempting to change society is to sweep everything away without discernment. Every era contained good, just, and constructive elements. By erasing the foundations, we weaken our thinking. By glorifying the “new” without critical thought, we pave the way for superficiality, individualism, and an alarming dependence on technology.
This tutorial offers a critical synthesis of my previous publications on liberalism, its social consequences, and the transformation of thinking in the digital age, especially with AI. It is a necessary freeze-frame moment to better understand what we are experiencing… and to rethink, together, how to avoid letting digital and political automatisms think for us.
👉 My knowledge didn’t emerge overnight. It is the result of over 15 years of learning, observation, self-questioning, and analysis of both the educational and societal fields. Today, I believe it’s the right time to share it — not as an absolute truth, but as a structured reflection and a proposal for an educational alternative. A possible path toward a more responsible, more human education, better adapted to the challenges of the digital era.
🧱 1. Forgotten Roots: When Liberalism Undermines Learning
In several of my tutorials, I’ve raised alarms about boundless liberalism, which promotes a “do whatever you want” mentality at the expense of social harmony, respect for rules, and collective meaning-making.
Linked examples:
- The loss of educational foundations
- The rejection of authority in the name of total freedom
- The decline of civic-mindedness and critical thinking
This mindset encourages immediacy, ease, and constant questioning of any framework — including educational ones. But a society without structure becomes chaotic. And in that chaos, those who shout the loudest impose their vision.
💥 2. The Digital Age: Catalyst or Accelerator of Fragmentation?
With the arrival of computers and then AI, these drifts became digitized.
Social platforms, algorithms, and filter bubbles reinforce mental automatisms, bypass critical thinking, and favor extremes.
Direct references:
- #ReverseTHINKing: breaking mental automatisms
- #CriticalTHINKing: relearning how to question
- #DigitalCitiZENship: regaining our digital responsibility
Technology becomes a tool reinforcing liberal drift, where individual thought is shaped, guided — even dictated — by commercial or ideological logic.
🧭 3. What We’ve Unlearned: A Synthesis of Forgotten Lessons
In this series of tutorials, we’ve rediscovered key concepts to rebuild an enlightened society:
| Concept | Goal |
|---|---|
| #OpenMIND | Opening the mind to healthy doubt, to respect for differences |
| #CriticalTHINKing | Relearning how to ask questions, confront sources |
| #ETHICS | Framing technological and societal choices |
| #ProactiveTHINKing | Acting with clarity instead of passivity |
| #SynthesizingMind | Connecting knowledge to build lasting meaning |
These pillars form an intellectual reconstruction base — essential for any society that refuses to sink into digital automatism, fragmented thinking, and destructive relativism.
🔄 4. Deconstruct Without Destroying: How to (Re)Think the Future
True progress isn’t about erasing everything. It’s about discernment:
- What deserves to be abandoned: authoritarianism, dogmatism, inequality
- What deserves to be preserved: strong educational structures, civility, respect, ethics
- What deserves to be transformed: mindsets, use of technology, education
We must rethink education, citizenship, and technology with lucidity — not abandon them to economic trends or demagogic rhetoric.
🧩 Conclusion: A Society Without Critical Thinking Becomes Programmable
In a time when AI begins to think for us, when memory of the past is scorned, and when liberalism confuses freedom with selfishness, it is urgent to pause.
This tutorial is not an ending, but a synthesis to go further. It invites you to ask yourself an essential question:
Are we still capable of thinking for ourselves… or have we become the product of a system that thinks for us?
🧠 Understanding How a Concept Emerges, Evolves, and Applies
We can trace how each concept is rooted in its context: for example, #ETHICS and #CriticalTHINKing appear early in my work.
Later concepts like #ReverseTHINKing or #SynthesizingMind emerge through maturation — as logical syntheses of previous ideas.
📚 A Timeline, a Pedagogy in Action
This timeline is not a simple chronological line. It illustrates a deliberate intellectual and pedagogical journey built across my tutorials. Each point marks a stage in the critical reflection on our digital society, showing how key concepts — like #CriticalTHINKing, #ETHICS, or #ReverseTHINKing — are rooted in and build upon one another.
For readers, educators, or learners, this timeline offers a clear mental structure: it helps follow the evolution of ideas, understand their interdependence, and envision how an educational concept can grow, strengthen, and embody a holistic vision.
It also proves that lasting educational change doesn’t happen overnight — it is built step by step, with coherence and conviction.
👉 For those who explored the idea timeline and its evolution, I strongly encourage you to read or revisit my full tutorials. Each one dives deeper into a key concept, develops a vision, or offers concrete pedagogical directions — in both French and English:
🔗 https://gustmees.wordpress.com/
🔎 What This Synthesis Reveals
- A strong guiding thread: An appeal to think, to question, not to passively follow digital evolution.
- A pedagogical coherence: Each concept is a pillar, a tool, or a warning signal to help build a more responsible society.
- A reproducible model: This approach can be used in education, training, and even public education policy.
A timeline in English is the equivalent of what we often call a frise chronologique in French.
📌 It Serves To:
- Visualize the evolution of a thought, project, or event over time
- Organize ideas in a structured and linear way
- Show progress, logical links, and key milestones
In my case, the timeline illustrates the progression of my tutorials, pedagogical concepts, and educational reflections over several months (or even years) as a logical guiding thread.
👉 It helps readers understand how my ideas are linked and to reconstruct the global coherence of my educational approach.
🎓 For Teachers and Trainers
This timeline can be used as:
- A pedagogical analysis tool: showing how a reflection structures and evolves
- A discussion starter with students: about the role of critical thinking in the digital age
- An example for a class or workshop project: starting from an idea, developing it through logical steps, and connecting it to social reality
🧠 Final Conclusion: To Think Is Already to Resist
This tutorial is a reflective pause — an invitation to look back in order to move forward. The path is not linear, but it is committed. This work demonstrates that with patience, coherence, and vision, we can build a way of thinking that resists digital automatisms.
#ReverseTHINKing is not just a method. It’s a mindset — a call to reclaim ownership of our minds. Before it’s too late.
A Small Reminder 👉 #ReverseTHINKing — Learning to Unlearn in Order to Rebuild Better
Understanding Is Becoming More Difficult When the Basics Haven’t Been Learned…
And you — when did you stop questioning what is presented to you as “obvious”?
Is it time to relearn how to think… before someone else does it for you?
#ReverseTHINKing then becomes essential for regaining control over our attention, our choices, and our digital autonomy.
To understand #ReverseTHINKing further, please also read:
👉 ReverseTHINKing: A Necessity for Rethinking Our Place in a Changing Society?
👉 More to explore: https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=liberalism and https://gustmees.wordpress.com/?s=lib%C3%A9ralisme
🧠 A Final Call:
What if we reactivated the filter between our two ears — also known as the “brain” — to get those grey cells moving again? 😉
Related links, tutorials:
https://gustmees.wordpress.com/2025/03/09/chatgpt-free-for-windows-desktop-users-part-73/
Check ALSO my Curation and EDU-related articles on my Blog
- https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-learning-and-teaching?tag=AI
- https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments?tag=AI
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Check ALSO:
ChatGPT FREE for Windows Desktop users, Part 38
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| L’auteur Gust MEES est Formateur andragogique / pédagogique TIC, membre du “Comité Conseil” de “Luxembourg Safer Internet” (LuSI), appelé maintenant BEESECURE, partenaire officiel (consultant) du Ministère de l’éducation au Luxembourg du projet ”MySecureIT“, partenaire officiel du Ministère du Commerce au Luxembourg du projet ”CASES” (Cyberworld Awareness and Security Enhancement Structure).. The author Gust MEES is ICT Course Instructor, ”Member of the Advisory Board” from “Luxembourg Safer Internet” (LuSI), BEESECURE, Official Partner (Consultant) from the Ministry of Education in Luxembourg, project “MySecureIT“, Official Partner from the Ministry of Commerce in Luxembourg, project “CASES” (Cyberworld Awareness and Security Enhancement Structure). |
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EDU: Digital CitiZENship, CyberSecurity, eSkills, Modern EDU by Gust MEES 
