possibilities of Gen AI use
reading buddy
Writing assistant
ideas generator
administrative assistant
MultimEDIA content developer
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academic search engine
PROGRAMMEr
ANALyst
analist
Ideas Generator
Suffering from writer's block? The GenAI tools may be able to help you work around it! Use them to brainstorm on a new idea. Consider the tools as a creative partner who suggests ideas, connects concepts and helps you to think out of the box. Once the tool has generated some ideas, you can use the chatbot to refine those ideas, add new ones, and shift the focus. The tools can help you think through specific problems. With the right input, they can brainstorm solutions, give recommendations, add other perspectives, formulate general advice, tell you how others have dealt with these problems or help you prove/disprove certain statements.
GenAI tools can also make class preparations easier. They can assist you with the structure and time management, and suggest active teaching methods. You can even ask the tools to draw up an entire plan. Or you can ask for inspiration to develop a series of classes.
Magda?
ChatGPT
Analyst
Certain GenAI tools can analyse texts and data and solve exercises (e.g. Microsoft CoPilot). You can ask the tool to interpret an image (e.g. a histogram) or solve a mathematical problem. It can also analyse the results of a survey. Please note: always consider privacy and confidentiality issues before you input information in these tools. Never feed the system sensitive data. Feeding any such system data governed by GDPR is punishable by law unless the systems have explicit rules and regulations on data processing. The current systems are not transparent on what they do with your data.
ChatGPT
If you are analysing or organising data in Excel, SPSS, R-code but cannot find the suitable formulas, you can ask the tool for them by describing the issue.
ChatGPT
Multimedia Content Developer
There is a suitable GenAI tool for every medium. They can design images, graphs, tables, and slides, or give you a first draft based on which you can continue to work.
Images: Microsoft CoPilot and GPT-4o generate free images which you can integrate into your teaching materials. Have you generated an image in a specific style that you wish to continue throughout? Ask the tool which prompt to use to obtain that style so that you can retain it for future use. Find out more on prompting in 2.4 How to Use the Tools?
ChatGPT
Graphs and tables: Microsoft Copilot, GPT-4o and Claude can generate tables, histograms, and graphs. Test which tool works best for your data. Gemini is not as good at this. Be careful not to enter confidential, (privacy) sensitive or copyrighted data.
ChatGPT
Slides: the tools mentioned above cannot generate slides, but they can generate ideas to put on your slides (key words and images). Slide-generating tools do exist but are often payable. Browse thereisanaiforthat.com using the keyword 'presentation' to find the newest tools or install the plugins for slides in the payable version of ChatGPT.
ChatGPT
Reading Buddy
The tools can offer valuable assistance when processing (large) quantities of text. You can think of them as a reading buddy. The tools can, for example
- summarise long texts, reports or articles quickly,
- impart key messages,
If a text is difficult to understand, you can ask the tool to simplify, paraphrase or explain technical jargon. It helps you detect and use essential information quickly.
DiffChecker
Claude
In their role as reading buddy, the tools can save you time but can also encourage you to give articles, opinions, ... more thought. You can ask it, for example, to generate critical questions based on the text, or to come up with other points of view than the ones in the text...
Administrative Assistant
GenAI tools can carry out various routine (and possibly time-consuming) tasks such as writing emails or summarising texts (cf. before). Apart from those, also consider:
- drawing up vocabulary lists for students based on texts,
- optimising your calendar,
- breaking up a large assignment into subtasks/to-dos to work more efficiently,
- sending out meeting invitations,
- preparing for meetings (drawing up the agenda, collecting the necessities, summarising the previous meeting),
- preparing presentations,
- taking notes,
- cleaning up notes (categorising, summarising),
- converting handwritten notes to digital notes,
- generating a report based on notes (audio/video to text)
- …
Programmer
GenAI tools are capable of writing programming code and assisting in identifying and debugging existing code. The tools will suggest ways to optimise code and the corresponding apps. You can also ask the chatbots for personalised feedback on the code you have generated. Please note: the tools are effective for generating or debugging simple programming code, but they still fall short of expectations when it comes to generating more complex code.
ChatGPT
(Academic) Search Engine
You can use the tools as you would use a search engine like Google by asking it general questions to gather information. Contrary to Google (and other search engines), the GenAI tools will use natural language instead of a list of web links. The tools will also help you to understand a topic better: you receive extensive information, recommendations and connections between concepts.
Many lecturers still believe that students cannot use GenAI for writing academic papers or essays because these tools hallucinate references and citations. This is accurate for platforms such as ChatGPT, but there are other more advanced academic search engines based on GenAI. They provide a wide range of features. While some will give an overview of the top 5 papers (e.g. SciSpace) on a specific topic, others will provide a summary of your topic, which you can use for further research (e.g. Elicit). Unlike ChatGPT, these tools do not search the entire internet but they search specific databases instead. Elicit uses Semantic Scholar and ScopusAI uses Scopus.
Writing Assistant
There are various applications to optimise the writing process. In the first place, the tools can help you to revise existing texts:
- holding up a mirror: looking for bias, prejudice, partialities, ... in what you wrote,
- …
- checking the grammar/spelling,
- rewriting texts/mails in a different register,
- lifting the texts to another level,
- restructuring a text,
In addition, the tools can assist you in composing texts, which you can use to work on in your teaching practice and beyond. In certain cases, you can adopt the generated text entirely but be aware of the possible risks such as copyright infringement.
- drafting outlines for (policy) documents,
- coming up with examples/cases,
- drawing up (differentiated) exercises,
- drawing up assignments and exam questions,
- making assessment instruments,
- …
- composing a syllabus, book …,
- drafting emails or (Ufora-) messages,
- writing scripts, e.g. knowledge clips, learning pathways, ...
- making summaries, e.g. to make slides,
- turning slides into full text,
- turning video clips into full text,
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Transcript
possibilities of Gen AI use
reading buddy
Writing assistant
ideas generator
administrative assistant
MultimEDIA content developer
</>
academic search engine
PROGRAMMEr
ANALyst
analist
Ideas Generator
Suffering from writer's block? The GenAI tools may be able to help you work around it! Use them to brainstorm on a new idea. Consider the tools as a creative partner who suggests ideas, connects concepts and helps you to think out of the box. Once the tool has generated some ideas, you can use the chatbot to refine those ideas, add new ones, and shift the focus. The tools can help you think through specific problems. With the right input, they can brainstorm solutions, give recommendations, add other perspectives, formulate general advice, tell you how others have dealt with these problems or help you prove/disprove certain statements.
GenAI tools can also make class preparations easier. They can assist you with the structure and time management, and suggest active teaching methods. You can even ask the tools to draw up an entire plan. Or you can ask for inspiration to develop a series of classes.
Magda?
ChatGPT
Analyst
Certain GenAI tools can analyse texts and data and solve exercises (e.g. Microsoft CoPilot). You can ask the tool to interpret an image (e.g. a histogram) or solve a mathematical problem. It can also analyse the results of a survey. Please note: always consider privacy and confidentiality issues before you input information in these tools. Never feed the system sensitive data. Feeding any such system data governed by GDPR is punishable by law unless the systems have explicit rules and regulations on data processing. The current systems are not transparent on what they do with your data.
ChatGPT
If you are analysing or organising data in Excel, SPSS, R-code but cannot find the suitable formulas, you can ask the tool for them by describing the issue.
ChatGPT
Multimedia Content Developer
There is a suitable GenAI tool for every medium. They can design images, graphs, tables, and slides, or give you a first draft based on which you can continue to work.
Images: Microsoft CoPilot and GPT-4o generate free images which you can integrate into your teaching materials. Have you generated an image in a specific style that you wish to continue throughout? Ask the tool which prompt to use to obtain that style so that you can retain it for future use. Find out more on prompting in 2.4 How to Use the Tools?
ChatGPT
Graphs and tables: Microsoft Copilot, GPT-4o and Claude can generate tables, histograms, and graphs. Test which tool works best for your data. Gemini is not as good at this. Be careful not to enter confidential, (privacy) sensitive or copyrighted data.
ChatGPT
Slides: the tools mentioned above cannot generate slides, but they can generate ideas to put on your slides (key words and images). Slide-generating tools do exist but are often payable. Browse thereisanaiforthat.com using the keyword 'presentation' to find the newest tools or install the plugins for slides in the payable version of ChatGPT.
ChatGPT
Reading Buddy
The tools can offer valuable assistance when processing (large) quantities of text. You can think of them as a reading buddy. The tools can, for example
- compare texts,
- ...
If a text is difficult to understand, you can ask the tool to simplify, paraphrase or explain technical jargon. It helps you detect and use essential information quickly.DiffChecker
Claude
In their role as reading buddy, the tools can save you time but can also encourage you to give articles, opinions, ... more thought. You can ask it, for example, to generate critical questions based on the text, or to come up with other points of view than the ones in the text...
Administrative Assistant
GenAI tools can carry out various routine (and possibly time-consuming) tasks such as writing emails or summarising texts (cf. before). Apart from those, also consider:
Programmer
GenAI tools are capable of writing programming code and assisting in identifying and debugging existing code. The tools will suggest ways to optimise code and the corresponding apps. You can also ask the chatbots for personalised feedback on the code you have generated. Please note: the tools are effective for generating or debugging simple programming code, but they still fall short of expectations when it comes to generating more complex code.
ChatGPT
(Academic) Search Engine
You can use the tools as you would use a search engine like Google by asking it general questions to gather information. Contrary to Google (and other search engines), the GenAI tools will use natural language instead of a list of web links. The tools will also help you to understand a topic better: you receive extensive information, recommendations and connections between concepts.
Many lecturers still believe that students cannot use GenAI for writing academic papers or essays because these tools hallucinate references and citations. This is accurate for platforms such as ChatGPT, but there are other more advanced academic search engines based on GenAI. They provide a wide range of features. While some will give an overview of the top 5 papers (e.g. SciSpace) on a specific topic, others will provide a summary of your topic, which you can use for further research (e.g. Elicit). Unlike ChatGPT, these tools do not search the entire internet but they search specific databases instead. Elicit uses Semantic Scholar and ScopusAI uses Scopus.
Writing Assistant
There are various applications to optimise the writing process. In the first place, the tools can help you to revise existing texts:
In addition, the tools can assist you in composing texts, which you can use to work on in your teaching practice and beyond. In certain cases, you can adopt the generated text entirely but be aware of the possible risks such as copyright infringement.