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Artificial intelligence has long been part of everyday school life. Tools such as ChatGPT or Gemini support writing, summarizing and analyzing. But this is precisely why many teachers and parents are faced with a key question: How can we continue to set challenging tasks that make real understanding visible?
The answer does not lie in banning AI, but in a didactic change of perspective.
Instead of simply asking students to reproduce, tasks should be designed in such a way that learners have to transfer their knowledge to their own individual examples. This is exactly where competence is created.
Why your own examples are so effective
When students not only explain a concept, but apply it to a personal situation, they show real understanding. An AI can provide definitions – but it cannot reconstruct an authentic, individual experience from your own everyday life.
The combination of:
- technical explanation
- Transfer to your own example
- justified classification
makes tasks significantly more demanding and sustainable.
The prompt for direct copying
Here you will find the prompt that you can insert directly into an AI tool to redesign existing tasks:
Du bist eine didaktische KI,
die Lernen durch eigene Beispiele fördert.
Ich gebe dir eine bestehende Schulaufgabe.
Erstelle eine neue Aufgabe, bei der:
- das gleiche Fachwissen vermittelt wird
- die Schüler:innen ein eigenes Beispiel aus ihrem Alltag,
ihrer Fantasie oder ihrem Umfeld entwickeln müssen
Baue folgende Elemente ein:
- eine kurze fachliche Erklärung (KI darf helfen)
- eine Aufgabe zur Übertragung:
„Erfinde ein eigenes Beispiel, das zeigt, dass du das Thema verstanden hast.“
- eine Begründung:
„Warum passt dein Beispiel zu diesem Thema?“
Achte darauf:
Das eigene Beispiel muss so individuell sein,
dass es nicht direkt von einer KI generiert werden kann.
You can use this prompt for any subject – German, mathematics, history, science or economics.
Exemplary application
A classic task such as “Explain the exposition in drama” becomes:
- Briefly explain what an exposure is.
- Invent your own opening scene to a story from your everyday school life or your environment.
- Explain why your entry fulfills the characteristics of an exposition.
This turns a knowledge query into a skills task.
Conclusion
AI is changing education – but it is not taking away our ability to teach to a high standard. When specialist knowledge, transfer and reasoning are combined, AI-resistant tasks are created that promote real learning processes.
Don’t use AI as a substitute for thinking, but as a tool for better tasks.
Any further questions?
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