Leveraging AI in learning design
Regional winner APAC

AI literacy for handling bias, hallucinations and cognitive offloading

How Isaac Ka Chun Wan at HKUST helps students reflect on their own use of generative AI and build the habits to use it with judgement.

Isaac Ka Chun Wan

HKUST
Institution
HKUST
Category
Leveraging AI
in learning design
Course
AI literacy,
before the lecture

The challenge

Students use generative AI every day, but many do not notice its biases and hallucinations, or how much of their own thinking they hand over to it. Reading about AI literacy rarely changes those habits on its own, because students need to experience the risks for themselves.

The redesign

Isaac Ka Chun Wan built a one hour Interactive Document activity around a set of AI literacy readings. Students answer questions as they read, test AI chatbots and image generators themselves, and practise writing better prompts instead of relying on a single quick question.

The reading connects to HalluciHunt, an app Isaac built himself, which gives students playgrounds to test AI outputs and spot hallucinations. Students also vote on how they typically use AI, compare their answers with their classmates and with the research, and discuss what cognitive offloading means for their own learning.

The activity ends with a reflection in which each student writes a personal guideline for ethical AI use that strengthens their own judgement. It works best as a task before the lecture, so the lecture can build on what students discovered, and several questions can become group tasks for more interaction.

What changed

Instead of reading passively about AI, students test its limits, see how their peers use it and leave with their own guideline for using AI with judgement.
Visual image
Try it yourself

Use this design in your own course

Isaac's learning activity is published as a template in the Learning Design Community, so you can explore it, download it and adapt it for your own students.
Try the template
Want advice on how to implement this in your own course?
We'd love to help you think it through.
Book a demo

Continue the story

Icon

Read the Impact Report

This story shows one course. Our Partner Impact Report shows what learning design made possible across 200+ institutions.
Get the report
Icon

Join us at InspirED

InspirED 2026 is the LDC Awards ceremony. Celebrate the winners with us on 3 December, in Brisbane or online.
Register now

What could this mean for
‍your institution?

Every winning design began with an educator who wanted something better for their students. If you would like to explore how the Learning Design System could help your institution design better teaching and build evidence of true learning, we would love to talk with you.
Book a demo