Learning by Doing in Promoting GAI Literacy

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) becomes popular due to its ability to assist humans in completing tasks. In some courses, GAI has been employed as part of the education process. However, no studies explicitly focus on promoting GAI literacy to students via their own experiences. We present a method to promote such literacy at the basic level: how GAI can be used responsibly and effectively. Students are encouraged to use GAI in some assessments, and to contrast their experience to assessments without GAI. The method was employed on an English course offered to Information Technology undergradu-ates. Our study found that GAI positively affects student work productivity, and the impact can be more substantial with human validation.