Workshop: learning with Generative AI

L’IA est déjà présente dans l’enseignement depuis plus d’un an et comme tous les établissements Audencia réfléchit sur la manière d’accompagner au mieux ce virage technologique majeur. La pédagogie est bien entendu un des domaines particulièrement impactés, et nécessite prise de recul et réflexion. La position de l’école est de ne pas interdire l’IA mais plutôt d’encadrer son utilisation auprès des étudiants, afin d’éviter les phénomènes de plagiat ou autres dérives. De nombreuses initiatives d’exploration sont en cours on Audencia.

Taking this global context into account, on 15 and 20 March 2024, the Well Being and Learning seminar was held, with a section devoted to AI in its programme. The Bachelor’s public, coming out of high school, needs structure when entering higher education in order to optimize its way of effectively learning new working methods, especially when new generative AI tools are now at hand.

Deux enseignants d’Audencia, Dan EVANS and Céline LEGRAND ont co-créé avec le concours des ingénieurs pédagogiques Firas ABDELMALEK and Erika LOGEAIS un atelier à ces fins.

Objectives

The objectives of the workshop were to:

Outline the various ways in which generative AI can aid in learning
Describe the benefits/risks of using AI as a learning tool
Explain some practical rules for applying AI to learning
Be able to create prompts that can be utilized to evaluate a subject's proficiency
Be able to write prompts to generate study guides and learning resources

Learning_with_AI_EN_TAKEAWAYS

The text that explains all 7 techniques

A first activity

We decided to put students in concrete learning situations. A first activity allowed them to understand and share their experiences on how to learn with AI for an exam, first by generating ideas on paper individually, then by sharing them as a group in a divergent way of thinking.

Then and only then, AI was used by each group as a system to generate additional ideas.

A second activity

In a second activity, they first had to memorize 7 learning techniques (taking into account their preferences and that they will be able to use during their studies at the Bachelor) by reading wall posters describing these activities in a few lines. In peer review mode, they discussed what they had understood from the 7 techniques. Then, they once again challenged AI to give them methods and tools to understand and retain these techniques.

Students were able to realize the importance of writing an effective prompt, contextualizing it, and specifying it as best as possible to generate relevant answers from the AI. They were then able in both exercises to exercise their critical sense of what the machine was returning and realize that the less precise a prompt is, the more the answers can be blurred, without added value or even fanciful.

An interactive quiz

At the end of the workshop, they were offered an interactive quiz on Wooclap to check some preconceived ideas about AI, prompts, plagiarism and the reminder of the rules of ethics and right of use at Audencia. “Take aways” documents have been given to them post session that they can reuse/consult as they go along.