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Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that can create new things, like text, images, music, or even videos. Instead of just following instructions, it uses patterns it has learned from lots of data to come up with original content. It’s like teaching a computer to be creative by using what it knows to make something new.
Prompt Engineering refers to the process of carefully crafting the instructions to guide an AI model to answer a question or prompt in a way that is most accurate and relevant. It involves using precise instructions and keywords to carefully craft your questions or statements as well as providing context or examples. The more clear and direct you are with your instructions, the more likely you are to get the answers you need.
Writing prompts for AI tools is different from writing questions for search engines. CLICK HERE for some best practices.
Responsible Use of AI Tools
As educators in an increasingly digital world, we recognize the growing presence and potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools in supporting teaching and learning. Our purpose in using generative AI is to enhance instructional efficiency, foster innovation, and support student learning—while maintaining a strong commitment to ethical practices, student privacy, and sound pedagogy.
According to the 2024 Work Trend Index (Microsoft & LinkedIn), 66% of leaders say they wouldn’t hire someone without AI skills. In order to prepare students for the future, they must have exposure to A.I. tools. Responsible use of A.I. develops critical thinking, problem-solving and time management abilities. To ensure responsible integration of AI into educational practice, we adhere to the following guiding principles:
Start Small - Use AI tools for simple tasks (ex. crafting an email) before attempting more complex AI prompting requests
Protect Privacy - Never include any personal information (student/staff) when prompting an AI tool
Know the Limits - Understand that AI tools are built on a specific data set, therefore the results may be limited in scope (ex. current events)
The 80-20 Rule - Utilize AI tools to ease the burden of initial work (80%). Edit the generated results to your own style and specific context (20%).
Check for Bias and Accuracy - Before sharing AI outputs, always confirm the AI tool’s results do not contain bias, inaccuracies or hallucinations (completely fake outputs).
Elevate the Human Element - AI-generated content should not be depended upon to make critical decisions or form evaluations about student performance or behavior. AI tools cannot understand relationships or provide emotional support.
Source and Acknowledgement - Review any sources referenced in AI generated content for accuracy. Be transparent by acknowledging any work generated with the help of an AI tool and give appropriate attribution/acknowledgement to AI sources.
Model the responsible and ethical use of AI for students.
Use of AI tools for instructional purposes is grounded in KUSD academic standards, curriculum, and sound pedagogical practice.
Inform students of expectations and rules surrounding the use of AI for academic work, in a manner that is appropriate for the age of the students and other situation-specific factors, In many contexts, this may involve directing students that using generative AI is not permitted in connection with an assignment, project, or other academic activity.
Utilize AI tools to support and enhance student learning and implement to complement, not replace, quality teacher and human interaction.
Allowed AI Use & Prohibited/Restricted AI Use
Allowed AI Use & Prohibited/Restricted AI Use
Allowed AI Use
Allowed AI Use
Idea Iteration – prompt an AI tool to give you different iterations of the same idea.
Improve writing quality, clarity, and expression - provide ideas for how to revise a sentence or word, suggest ways to begin a paragraph, offer feedback on how to express your thinking more clearly in writing, review your writing for grammar and spelling errors, and help you match your writing style to a specific tone or audience.
Make information easier to understand - explain technical or academic jargon, provide concrete examples of an abstract idea, break material into smaller chunks, summarize and simplify material, provide an outline of an article to support pre-reading, translate text into your native language, make content more accessible, scaffold learning, and provide concrete examples.
Personalized Content and Review - AI can help generate personalized study materials, summaries, quizzes, and visual aids, help students access and develop tailored resources to meet their specific needs, and help students organize thoughts and review content.
Make learning more accessible - transcripts of recorded audio, closed captions for videos, alter text to describe images for blind/visually impaired individuals, interpretations of complex visual data, assistive technologies like text-to-speech software, speech recognition systems,
Assessment Design and Analysis - enhance assessments by automating question creation, provide standardized feedback on common mistakes, design adaptive tests based on real-time student performance,
Cite work written by AI - If you prompt GenAI to create an original source of text or media – something that cannot be traced back to an original source you can write “This text was generated by ChatGPT [or insert another GenAI technology]" in a footnote. See Using AI with Students for more advice.
Operational Efficiency - use AI tools to support school operations such as help with scheduling, generate analysis reports, identify trends in performance, attendance.
Professional Development/Troubleshooting - Use AI tools to triage your tech issue or find PD on a topic.
Prohibited/Restricted AI Use
Prohibited/Restricted AI Use
Do not have students under 13 use generative AI tools unless;
The tool has been approved and provided by the District for classroom or District use, or
The tool is approved assistive technology for a specific student’s needs (for example, part of an IEP or 504 plan).
Do not enter Personal Identifiable Information (PII), any individual's patient health care records, or protected health information records.
Do not alter Common Assessments
Do not make it appear as if you created it. See Allowable AI Use for citation advice.
Do not copy AI-generated text word for word into your written work. See Allowable AI Use for citation advice.
Do not use AI to automatically summarize a complex academic article - Used in this way, you are basically asking GenAI to “read for you.” This offloads your thinking, learning, and the productive struggle of understanding and critically examining the author’s ideas.
Do not use AI tools to analyze data for you and submit the data analysis as your own - GenAI tools are not calculators or math machines, they are predictability machines (they guess which words go together to make the most plausible human-sounding response).
Do not use AI in a manner that violates any state, federal law or applicable District policies or guidelines, or in a manner that violates the applicable terms of use/license.
Do not use AI tools for malicious purposes, including with the intent or purpose of generating information, images, video, audio, or other content known to be deceptive or otherwise harmful.
Do not rely on AI tools to make decisions that require your professional judgment or could impact others. AI can be a helpful support, but final decisions like these must always come from you.
This includes:
Making employment or performance decisions about staff
Assigning final grades or assessments that involve subjective judgment
Deciding that a student plagiarized or used AI inappropriately
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