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Personalise learning with generative AI

Generative AI tools can help your students customize their studies according to their individual needs. The tools can, for example, support them in planning their studies, explaining and interpreting complex problems, creating a first draft and practising their language skills.

Generative AI should support learning

Encourage students to use generative AI in a way that supports their learning. Generative AI should help them train the skills they need to develop, not perform the tasks for them. Read more about how to talk to your students about generative AI and what to consider when using generative AI:

Support during studies

Generative AI can support students' studies in various ways, for example, they can use generative AI to:

  • structure and plan studies
  • explain and interpret complex problems
  • create a first draft or support brainstorming
  • practice language skills
  • get feedback.

Note! Different generations of generative AI usually produce different results, with premium versions often providing more sophisticated answers.

Structure and plan studies

Generative AI can be used to create a plan for how a student should study or to help them get started on larger assignments. This can especially help those students who have problems starting assignments on time or who lack study experience. For example, students can ask generative AI to:

  • Divide a task into smaller tasks.
  • Generate a timetable with milestones based on the course's deadlines.
  • Create a healthy daily study schedule that fits their life outside of school.

Explain and interpret complex problems

Generative AI tools can be used to break down and explain complex problems, such as in math, programming, or science. For example, students can ask a generative AI tool to rewrite the problem in other words or create a step-by-step list of what they need to do to solve the problem. They can also discuss the problem with the tool, both verbally and in text, something that can help, for example, students with dyslexia or ADHD.

Remind students to always critically review and validate the responses from generative AI tools. Generative AI can, for example, skip parts of the question or misinterpret jargon.

Create a first draft or support brainstorming

Generative AI tools can help students get started with writing by quickly producing a first draft or to support them as they brainstorm ideas. However, it is important that the students continue to work with the material created by the tool, both to be academically honest and to raise the quality. The answer may contain inaccuracies or fail to address important points.

Also note that generative AI always tries to give the most likely answer to prompts and therefore has difficulty dealing with unusual limitations that may exist in a course assignment. For example, to only use the solution methods that the course has gone through so far or to write a text where the penultimate word in each sentence rhymes.

Practice language skills

Generative AI tools can also support language learning, helping students practice and receive feedback on their language skills, among other things. For example, by conducting a written or oral dialogue with the tool, students can practice the structure, vocabulary and fluency of the language. This use requires students to prompt the AI tool to take on the role of a training partner who gives them direct feedback on their language use.

Get feedback

Students can use generative AI to get feedback on their work, for example to have an essay or code proofread. Read more about this on the page Improve feedback using generative AI .