We believe that with mindful and intentional use of AI technology, we can accelerate learning, improve feedback, and better support our students’ diverse needs. Here are 8 important items to consider:

• Your teachers will give you guidelines about what use of AI is and is not allowed on learning tasks. Some tasks are an important part of learning, and outsourcing those to a chatbot is a shortcut that will rob you of a chance to learn. Use AI tools as an intentional way to accelerate and deepen your learning. 

• Always assume that AI is not allowed on an assignment unless your teacher explicitly permits it. If instructions are missing or unclear, be sure to ask for clarification before proceeding to avoid any academic complications. 

• Focus on your learning process rather than on the completed and final product. This will help ensure that new digital tools translate into higher student work and thinking levels. Your teacher might ask you to do all of your drafting and writing in the same Google Doc. The version history will help them evaluate your process and see the improvement in your work.

• In the same way that we cite our sources in research, we need to be clear about how we have used AI. Students must acknowledge any use of AI on a learning task. When using Gemini, including a link to the prompt you used and the dialogue you had with the chatbot is a good way of illustrating your learning process. For example, “I used ChatGPT as a personal writing tutor to provide feedback on my first draft (link).”

• Submitting the output of an AI tool as your own work without acknowledgment violates our academic integrity policies. 

• AI chatbots such as ChatGPT or Gemini are prone to making errors or fabricating untruths, especially when they cite sources or solve mathematical problems. Carefully review all output from a chatbot and check the facts yourself.

• Many chatbots are trained from user input. Do not use personally identifiable information such as email addresses or telephone numbers in prompts that you give an AI system. 

• Be aware that AI outputs can contain hidden biases or stereotypes from their training data, so always evaluate the information critically rather than accepting it as an objective truth.

• AI tools must never be used to generate harmful, hateful, or inappropriate content. Additionally, using AI to impersonate others, such as creating "deepfakes" of students or staff members without their consent, is strictly prohibited.