{"id":342,"date":"2025-04-17T11:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T08:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/empowerai\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:34:39","slug":"implementing-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/empowerai\/implementing-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Implementing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below you will find various ways for developing critical thinking skills with AI-based tools. Examples of different activities for this purpose are grouped below by different sub-skills of critical thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Argumentation and logical reasoning skills\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Debate with AI:<\/strong> have students engage in debates with AI, challenging its answers and providing counterarguments with sources. For instance, Use AI as a \u201cdevil\u2019s advocate\u201d to test students\u2019 ability to defend their viewpoint and ask them to report their discussion as an assignment to be graded.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Evaluate AI-generated claims:<\/strong> present AI-generated claims (especially flawed or oversimplified ones) for students to critique and improve. Ask students to identify logical fallacies or unsupported claims in AI responses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Find answers to AI-generated questions: <\/strong>prompt AI to ask questions about the course contents to prepare for exam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Analytical and synthesising skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Analyse concepts: <\/strong>ask students to define key concepts with the help of AI and to compare the results to definitions found in textbooks and research literature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Compare viewpoints:<\/strong> use AI to explore multiple perspectives on a single topic, then have students integrate those into a coherent text.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Compare AI- and human-generated abstracts:<\/strong> ask students to write an abstract of an open-source research article and compare it to the AI-generated abstract.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Write summaries:<\/strong> ask students to generate AI summaries or outlines and to expand the content meaningfully using concepts and references introduced during the course.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Make critical comparisons between languages: <\/strong>encourage students to compare AI responses across different languages or cultural frames, and reflect on possible variations in the results.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Metacognition and self-reflection skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Document prompts:<\/strong> ask students to document how they used AI during a task (prompts &amp; outputs). Discuss the results with the whole group.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reflect on the effect of prior knowledge:<\/strong> have students reflect on how their prior knowledge influenced their AI use or how AI responses confirmed\/challenged their thinking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Compare AI and human reasoning:<\/strong> use AI-generated errors or limitations as a basis for reflecting on the value of human reasoning. For instance, design exercises where students compare their initial answers with AI suggestions and reflect on the differences between them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. Critical evaluation of sources<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Trace sources:<\/strong> assign students to trace claims made by AI back to original sources\u2014or highlight when this isn\u2019t possible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reveal assumptions:<\/strong> explore how AI presents \u201cneutral\u201d information and have students analyse what perspectives or assumptions are embedded in the response.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Check references<\/strong>: use fabricated references created by AI to discuss misinformation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5. Critical AI literacy skills<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Discuss AI ethics:<\/strong> discuss the environmental costs and data ethics of large language models \u2013 even in cases where the teacher or the students do not want to use any AI-based tools.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Discuss research ethics: <\/strong>use AI\u2019s tendency to fabricate content as a prompt to discuss academic integrity and trust.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Analyse biases in AI outputs: <\/strong>ask AI to produce answers to different questions and analyse possible biases in AI outputs (e.g., gendered translations or anglo-centric perspectives in other languages).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Compare different AI tools:<\/strong> generate answers to the same question with different tools and check the answers using research literature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Discuss motives: <\/strong>explore how commercial AI tools shape what information is prioritized or excluded, and what this means for knowledge production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below you will find various ways for developing critical thinking skills with AI-based tools. Examples of different activities for this purpose are grouped below by different sub-skills of critical thinking. 1. Argumentation and logical reasoning skills\u00a0 2. 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