Generative AI and Learning
Bringing It All Together
Image credit: Created by ChatGPT (OpenAI), 2025.
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.
GenAI Campus Supports
Are you unsure what’s allowed in your course? Is your question about academic integrity or permitted use in a course?
- Yes → Contact your Instructor for course-specific guidance
- Still unsure? Explore
Are you unsure how to cite or disclose your use of GenAI?
- Refer to the Academic Integrity Guidelines
- Explore the Library's GenAI Guide, in particular Citation Considerations and GenAI
- Complete the Module on Interacting with GenAI, in particular Citing Your Use of GenAI
- Contact the Digital Skills or Writing Help Centre
Are you unsure where to start?
Explore
Are you concerned about privacy, data security or copyright when using GenAI tools?
- Review the Copyright Information for Students
- In particular Artificial Intelligence Tools: Submitting Content
- Explore Data Handling Guidelines for AI
Do you need help using GenAI for learning or studying?
Explore:
- The University's AI Literacy Tutorials
- The Library Guide on Generative AI
- The Library's Learning Hub, in particular these self-directed learning resources
- Understanding GenAI - What it is, how it works, and why using it responsibly matters?
- Interacting with GenAI - What are prompts, how do they shape the response you get and are the answers always worth trusting?
- Being AI Literate - Learn more about the limitations of AI and the ethical consideration surrounding it use.
- How AI ready are you? Complete this questionnaire to assess your current level of AI knowledge and identify areas where you may need to improve your understanding before you can start to use AI tools effectively and responsibly.
Are you unsure about what it means to think critically or how critical thinking is defined?
Explore
Next Step
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.