AI Survival Class — Session 1: DDL
Around 60 DKU students joined the first session on AI for study, homework, revision, and research.
On 23 October 2026, around 60 DKU students joined the first AI Survival Class in IB 1047. This opening session focused on DDL: study and homework—practical ways to use AI while keeping the thinking and learning in students’ own hands.
What the first session covered
- Getting started: Set up network access, accounts and subscriptions, then explore when to think through a question in ChatGPT and when to hand a concrete task to Codex.
- Learning in class: Ask as soon as something becomes unclear, including by voice, and turn a useful explanation into a web page saved on your own computer.
- Working through homework: Take a lab from reading its brief to writing and running code and preparing the submission, with AI helping at each step.
- Revising for exams: Use AI to quiz yourself, draft and count the words in a cheat sheet, then write the final sheet by hand.
- Handling papers and academic tasks: Read papers, prepare lab reports and research notes, convert PDFs, merge files and make slides with one AI-assisted workflow.
The central reminder was simple: review and correct the tool’s mistakes, raise the standard of what you ask from it, and take responsibility for your own understanding.
From the classroom
