AI, creativity and critical thinking

Introduction

Hello and thank you for inviting me.

From Consumer to Learner: Using AI in Education

From the consumer I think to the learner, this is how to use AI in a learning environment.

Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education

That's a big step for universities and a big problem of testing people with a lot of tests

text and so it's also good to think about what yeah can be creative and how

Becoming a Learning Subject with AI

can I be a learning subject within using AI I understand AI I work a lot with it

at the university because I'm in the IT sector but also I have questions how to

use it on a yeah I think hopeful manner and not also everything's

replacing oh I hope okay I combine two work environments my whole

Ethical Questions: When to Use AI and What About Privacy?

working life that's so I also had ethical questions by AI when do I use it

and when do I use it not and what's about my privacy and something else so

that's on the one hand what I try to combine learning and

communication.

That's all what I have every time done as a consultant.

For my

Safe AI Tools in Practice

The University-Provided Chat Environment

use of ChenIE tools I'm happy and glad to be employee of the University of

Amsterdam because the University of Amsterdam provides an own ChenIE tool

with the following goal as an independent chat based application

application, developed by our own developers, and it's a safe way.

Data Privacy Concerns with Public AI Tools

What are you doing when you are using ChatGPT?

What is ChatGPT doing with your information you are uploading, all the things?

Control, Deletion, and Safety

Here in this environment, I have the possibility to delete everything.

everything.

Nobody knows and nobody cares.

The price for free, it was a long time ago

a very good BBC documentation.

We have to pay a lot to set up a good AI, oh, now I'm

Too much talking with my hands.

That's always my handicap.

There we are.

Sorry.

Okay.

So, a safely use.

Practical Guidance for Personal Use

Be Aware and Use with Care

I think if you use ChatGPT or something else, be aware of it.

I find it, for me, it's good to know.

and so I can can use everything what I ever have written to load it up and use

it with AI.

But that's for my use and that's also if you use it be

careful with what you use.

Does AI Hinder or Help Learning and Creativity?

Thus that's the learning question for me does my

my creativity and my ability to learn decrease by using more and more generative IE.

Framing with Learning Theory

I think that's always, I'm on educational science for the more developing of the learning

environment of the university.

we always have to to deal what theory is it if you use AI and it depends if you

have learning theories how I use generative AI and two learning theories

Two Guiding Theories: Cognitive Load and Dual-Process Thinking

give me some guidelines how I can use it and one of them is the cognitive load

theory by John Sweller and the dual process model by Robert Kahneman.

I just

explain it later.

Ethics and Humanity

First of all, no, my ethical questions always, everybody use

it because it's here, but do I use it?

Or do I have to use it?

And I always

A Personal Story: Reading Harry Potter

think about my reading experience with my child.

I read a lot of Harry Potter

and one of the famous scenes I myself combine with my use of AI, generative

IA is the question that Harry Potter buries the house elf Dobby by hand not

by magic and this is about respect this is about thinking what is my humanity in

the AI talking we talk a lot of about magic of course for a lot of people AI

is magic, what is it doing, but it's a stupid large language model with

waging, waging, waging and somebody knows and it costs a lot of energy.

When to Use AI—and When Not To

So two

things for me is when is it good for my creativity, when can I use it

for therefore and when I have to do something without AI.

So I try one more

Applying Cognitive Load Theory

thing, a little help for me, John Sweller's cognitive load theory, it's a

theory you have posted, you can't learn anything if you have a lot of, I say always, packages.

If you are about more than 12 packages, nothing happens in your mind.

You can sit down and

smile and drink a lot, but you don't, yeah, it doesn't work in a learning process.

So

Managing Load with Multimedia and Limits

So there are different possibilities to increase your load.

If you use pictures, if you use paintings, you can double or with one third you can more

things remember what's happening.

But there's always a limit, and from this limit, on this theory by John Sweller, you have three different loads.

Three Types of Cognitive Load

The first load is the intrinsic cognitive load.

What is the problem?

Is there a math problem that I can solve?

And do it by hand.

I should tell you.

And there is another load, the extraneous cognitive load.

This is what I always call noise, structuring things,

things who took a lot of time.

and there is a germane cognitive load that is now what I'm doing here or

preparing a lecture is I descend or descend or decimus this by teaching we

learn that's that what I'm doing now preparing a lecture or preparing this I

I learned the most, more than you, mostly because this is a German load for me.

What Tasks to Delegate to AI

But so you can differ and if you go through what tasks can be done by AI,

With the cognitive load theory in mind, mostly the work that can be labeled with

extraneous cognitive load is possible used for generative IA.

Structuring text,

if you are preparing for a meeting, you have a summary of a lot of texts, do it

by AI and be creative in the meeting.

Do work on the texts created by AI together in the

meeting and let the preparing work be done by ChatGPT or some other of the large language

models who can be used for it.

This is for me a very good manner of using a AI, generative

AI.

Example: Organizational Blueprinting with Generative AI

Before with an example of generative use with this extraneous cognitive load in the

the Lutheran Synod, I'm also here in the past as a minister, we are busy with the transitioning

to a new organizational structure with task groups.

The tasks are described, but how do we define the powers and responsibilities in such a

a new model.

Oh, oh, oh, nobody knows.

We ask Generative AI, please do it in bullets,

do it from simple complex to more complex.

You got within five minutes a wonderful model.

You can talk together and rewrite it, because it's never good, because it's not precisely

enough, but you have a blues print and that's wonderful to work with.

Kahneman’s Dual-Process Model in AI Use

And always another helpful theory in mind is, I switch to another theory, is

the Kahneman's dual process model and how our mind works.

Fast vs. Slow Thinking with AI Outputs

Because this is for me

also we yeah you have two processes a fast automatic processing if you are in

an in a discussion but afterwards you think oh what did I say and I think also

this is a way how to to deal with generative AI and what it's presenting

to us.

Somebody, yeah, fast thinking, fast texts but let it be in your mind one day

not a fast, too fast thinking about it.

So this is for my, for me, always have the

Always Keep the Human in the Loop

the human in the loop.

1There, take the time for the human in the loop.

Because otherwise

all the hallucinations you don't know.

This is my experience on this way.

And I find it

Training Fast Thinking Through Slow Reflection

But it's interesting if you combine the two modes, because sometimes the slow thinking

helps you to automate the fast thinking.

So, especially if you are working in the therapy world, there's a lot of wins to get with this way that you don't overact or don't forget things people talk to you.

So that was for me the the second theory and if I have not anything at least

Environmental Considerations

always don't forget the environmental and climate question.

AI uses a lot of

Energy Use and Responsible Adoption

energy just before you use it always I ask think and aware, be aware.

Now thank

Conclusion

Thank you, that's what I want to present to you.

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