Why use genAI to help you learn?
GenAI has the power to enhance your learning experience. Used well, it can help you find information rapidly and even support critical appraisal of what you find. It can strengthen how you write or extend your creativity in making videos or other artworks. Making it part of your learning strategies can boost your skill development, improve the way you learn, and prepare you for the future of work.
Ways genAI tools can help you study
There are a wide range of ways that genAI tools can help you when studying at university. Click on the plus (+) icons below to explore different applications of genAI in your studies.
Activity overview
This interactive image hotspot provides some examples on how genAI tools can help you when studying at university. Hotspots are displayed as plus (+) icons that can be clicked, to present the information.
Hotspot 1: Planning
- to summarise information on a topic to help you get started
- provide creative inspiration or suggestions that you can build on
- to develop a schedule to manage your study time.
Hotspot 2: Writing
- enhance your written communication skills by refining your grammar and sentence construction
- translate text into other languages
- draft and brainstorm ideas.
Hotspot 3: Revision
- to revise for assessments by making word puzzles, flash cards, quizzes, help sheets and other revision aids to prepare
- to explain complex concepts to increase your understanding
- to improve code quality and efficiency by simplifying coding language and identifying and fixing bugs.
Hotspot 4: Creation
- create content such as images and music for presentations or videos
- develop code to increase productivity and automate repetitive tasks.
Think critically when using genAI
Utilising genAI tools can be helpful, but the output can be inaccurate or even incorrect. Often the responses can be misleading, out of date, biased or completely made up.
The ability to critically evaluate the output from genAI tools is a crucial skill. As a Deakin student, you have a responsibility to evaluate and verify the responses you get from genAI tools, and not rely solely on the generated responses.
Click on the plus (+) icons below to learn more about critically evaluating information generated by AI.
Critical thinking at every stage
By applying your critical thinking skills when using generative AI tools you can improve the responses, identify inaccurate information and bias, and adapt the content to make it your own.
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Remember and reflect
Key takeaway
GenAI can alleviate some of the cognitive load, but should never replace critical thinking and engagement with information.
Consider
Remember AI tools have no grasp on fact or accuracy. Think about how you will apply your critical thinking skills whilst using genAI.