Learning With GenAI - How Much is Too Much?

Learning with GenAI isn’t just about convenience. It represents an opportunity to learn and grow in ways that haven't always been possible. While GenAI tools can handle routine tasks, what matters most is how you choose to use them. Exercising your learner agency helps you make the most of these opportunities in safe, responsible, and ethical ways. This means keeping your uniquely human strengths and skills — empathy, adaptability, integrity, and curiosity — at the centre of everything you do.

When you use GenAI strategically, you free up mental space for higher-level tasks, such as analyzing, questioning, and creating. True growth comes from asking deeper questions:

• How do I know what I know?
• What assumptions am I making?
• How can I apply this knowledge in new ways?

By reflecting on your learning habits and setting your own goals, you build the capacity to think critically and independently.

Learning with intention means being self-directed, reflective and curious. With GenAI, you can customize your learning path, define your own outcomes, and experiment boldly with ideas. But GenAI can only support your journey; it cannot replace your insight, judgment, or creativity.

In short: Use GenAI as a tool, not a shortcut. Push yourself beyond convenience, challenge your assumptions, and let curiosity guide you. By doing so, you can become a more confident, capable, and independent learner, ready to navigate the complexities of an AI-driven world, not just as a student, but as an active and informed citizen. 

And remember, you're not alone. If you’re ever unsure about how to use GenAI ethically, safely and effectively, your instructors, the library, and other campus supports are here to help.

Thank you for completing this module. It ends with a Self-Reflection Exercise designed to help you pause and think about how you use GenAI in your learning. Engaging in this reflective process ensures that GenAI becomes a tool that supports your growth rather than a shortcut that limits it. The more intentional you are, the more you’ll get out of both your learning and the technology.

There is a short survey at the very end. Please complete it to let us know your thoughts on this module and to help us improve it.