ChatGPT in study, support or learning replacement?
The study is mainly about learning something and taking exams, in which you should prove what you have learned.
The evaluation of your performance shows you how well you have learned at university.
You have certainly already experienced that you were able to give things back in a classwork or a lecture, but after a few weeks you could no longer remember it so correctly.
No wonder, because in our long-term memory only what we not only superficially, but actively learn.
Active learning means, for example, structuring and organizing the read or heard content, for example through your own summarizations and visualizations such as mindmaps or charts.
It is particularly helpful to imagine that you explain the behavior in a simple language to another person or test yourself with quiz questions or card cards.
Stop!
Does that seem familiar to you?
Exactly, these are exactly the activities that ChatGPT can do for you.
ChatGPT can read and summarize texts for you and even create mindmaps.
The AI can brainstorm for you and give you behaviors in a simpler language.
It can also find headlines for topics or reformulate your texts.
But you should keep in mind that you are losing the cognitive process that you would do without AI itself.
You can warm up your brain with your own brainstorming before active learning.
This activates and reinforces the links between your knowledge network and new knowledge can be attached much easier to the nerve cells.
Your own text summaries in your words help you understand which connections you have already understood and which you have not.
When actively testing with quiz questions, you strengthen your knowledge and at the same time practice the recall of knowledge.
You should use AI like ChatGPT to support your learning process instead of replacing it.
Let's ask you, for example, possible quiz questions on your topic from ChatGPT.
Do you ask yourself the question why you should still learn certain things if a software or AI can do that for you anyway?
Do you then ask yourself why primary school students still learn to calculate, there are also pocket calculators?
Our world is always subject to a technical change.
That is why it is especially important to know how to get the correct information, how to assess knowledge and how to further train yourself.
Sometimes it is still important to know things quickly and by heart, or do you also get your pocket calculator out of the bakery to count the change.
If you were able to use a phone book or the street atlas in the past, you have to know how to use social media and Google or even AI today.
To do this, you have to know how to formulate suitable prompts.
Prompts are the questions you ask ChatGPT.
Only if you already bring knowledge with you can you formulate prompts in such a way that they lead precisely to the desired result.
And only if you bring enough knowledge with you can you also assess whether the AI output is really correct.
If you write a text with ChatGPT, this means that the essential content of a text from you should only serve to prepare it appropriately and to provide you with inspiration.