| Title | Working with AI |
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| Subtitle | An Integrated, Process-Based Framework for Posthumanist Teaching in Higher Education |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.64449/9780906785959-04 |
| Landing page | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/catalog/book/279 |
| Publisher | UJ Press |
| Published on | 2025-08-29 |
| Long abstract | This chapter explores the potential of integrated learning tasks in view of AI (artificial intelligence) in HE (higher education). AI has democratised content production, but it also poses challenges in distinguishing work done by AI from that done by humans. It suggests that integrated learning tasks can help mitigate these challenges by emphasising the process of writing with AI and focusing on the task rather than the learner. The chapter describes a case study in which students were asked to generate a research topic for themselves and then use ChatGPT (chat generative pre-trained transformer) – a language model AI – to generate prompts for their literature survey. The students then used a spreadsheet to organise their research and a branching tree diagram to form the outline of their literature survey. They used mail merge to extract relevant quotations from their spreadsheets and then used a chatbot to assist them in assembling the final literature survey. We compared the work done by the students in the case study to a group of fifth-year students who did not follow the process and found that the students who used the integrated learning approach had developed an insight in the responsible and ethical use of AI. They also had a much clearer understanding of the research process. In contrast, the fifth-year group simply asked the AI to write the literature survey, resulting in a well-written but vacuous piece of work filled with falsehoods, hallucinations, and fake references. The chapter concludes by pointing out that constructivist learning tasks can help students develop a good understanding of the value of a good prompt and use a step-by-step approach to generate the final project. It suggests that in future, the emphasis should be placed on the process of writing with AI, whereas in a posthuman sense, the focus should not be on the student, but on the task. |
| Page range | pp. 99-128 |
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