It's a simple fact: If you practice, you get better. The work you do in school will help you learn how to learn.
Teachers design lessons and assign work intended to help you learn content, develop your skills, and grow as a thinker. Your school work is not just a series of arbitrary hurdles, but elements of a complete education. Your active thinking and engagement are important ingredients to your learning.
Committing to academic integrity will help you learn as much as you can.
It's easy to think that the work you do in high school won't do you any good in the long-run. When it's hard to motivate, you might convince yourself that algebra, Shakespeare, photosynthesis, or subjunctive conjugations won't be of any benefit to you.
But you really never know. It's impossible to see what your future will hold--and you might be surprised at what knowledge ultimately makes your life better. Even if a particular piece of content never becomes "useful," you are practicing the skill of learning. Your brain is like a muscle... work out to keep it strong!
Your teachers understand that you are learning. They do not expect you to understand everything the first time you try it.
Learning includes making mistakes. When teachers see your mistakes, they can help you fix them.
But if your work isn't really yours, they won't be able to understand what you need.
Try to think of the best things in life and ask yourself: What level of focus was necessary to make these things happen?
You're likely to find that most great achievements require sustained attention and the resilience to overcome obstacles. As you work through challenges, you will grow stronger--and things that were once difficult will feel easy.
When you find your passion, when opportunity knocks, or when you know you have to work hard to achieve something, you want to be ready for success. Grow stronger by committing to your best effort on everything you do in school.
Some things are tedious.
Even if you're wildly successful in whatever you do, there are long days of rote work, stretches of loneliness, periods of grinding through whatever preparation you need to perform.
Critical thinking, learning, and engaging in academic work isn't always enjoyable--and it's rarely alluring. But the ability to fight through distraction and maintain focus is an essential skill on virtually every professional path. As a student, you have a great opportunity to build these skills.
There are certainly ways that artificial intelligence might benefit your learning. And your teachers who authorize you to use AI will give you guidance. Of course, whenever you use AI for your school work, it is your responsibility to cite it as a source--and be clear with your teacher how you have used it.
But there are ways that AI can pose a danger to your learning:
It's easy to let the algorithm do the work for you, which will mean you're less capable of thinking for yourself when you must.
AI-generated content is likely to be beyond your developmental level (or far below). . . and you would never know it.
If you rely on AI, you won't develop your own authentic perspective or vision.
Communicate expectations and guide students
Use their best professional judgement
Enforce the rules consistently and fairly
Apply the guidance within Academic Integrity Framework consistently and fairly
Use their best professional judgement
Communicate expectations to students
Abide by ineligibility determinations
Partner with the school by talking to your kids about Academic Integrity
Review and understand this Academic Integrity Framework
In the event of a violation, work with teachers, counselors, and administrators to support their child