1. All media and tools are allowed. You may use any media (texts, videos, . . . )
and tools (apps, calculators, . . . ) in my course that you find useful.
This also applies to AI tools such as ChatGPT, which can be very helpful in generating ideas and writing texts, for example.
So these tools are available to you in my course just as they are now in your everyday life and later in your job.
By the way, the use of tools will also be subject of our course. Let’s find out together how to use tools in a meaningful way to solve tasks!
2. You are responsible for your results. All tools have their limitations.
Information in media can be wrong. Calculators cannot work with real numbers. And AI language models like ChatGPT can produce well formulated texts, but they make errors and reproduce biases.
So before you proceed with results and impulses, you need to check them and revise them if necessary. The tool does not think for you, but you think with the help of the tool. The theoretical background is the approach of distributed cognitions:
”Cognitions become ‘distributed’ in the sense that the tool and its human partner think jointly. Whatever is produced is product of the joint system, resulting from the pooling together of the intelligences of both partners [. . . ]“ (Salomon, 1993, p. 182). In the end, however, you stand up for your solution. You have to be able to explain your solution to others. And you (not the tool) are responsible for errors in the solution.