Teaching Generic Skills with/or against Chat GPT

The field of development of student generic competencies is extremely complex, and becoming even more intensified, accelerated and complicated by comprehensive changes in society. The worldwide popularity of Generative AI/Chat GPT, and its rapid involvement into the educational system did not eased, but complicated educational paradigm. In this work, early experience of utilizing its use as valuable student assistant is given. Redesigning, one can argue intensifying, the Class of Information Literacy and Critical Thinking for freshmen students of IT at Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, by changing a delivery form to debate, and introducing concept of Mental Models for better understanding of given topics, plus giving them Chat GPT as legal assistant for preparation and debate, very positive results in teaching Information Literacy and Critical thinking are produced. In addition to enhancing certain Generic Competencies, there is a notable improvement in key IT employability skills.