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AI Literacy
AI Literacy
AI literacy empowers learners to understand AI and make decisions about its use in meaningful and ethical ways. When integrated thoughtfully into learning, AI provides new opportunities to exercise critical thinking and creative expression. <https://ailiteracyframework.org/>
This curriculum aligns our secondary library programs with ISTE, Wisconsin ITL standards, and the AI Literacy Framework ensuring students develop the knowledge, skills, and values needed to engage with artificial intelligence in safe, ethical, and meaningful ways.
These lessons are flexible recommendations rather than strict requirements—please adapt them to fit your building and student needs.
Levels of AI Use
Levels of AI Use
There are five levels of acceptable AI use. Teachers should inform students about the specific level(s) of use that is acceptable for their assignments and assessments.
- No AI
Students must not use AI at any point during the assessment. You must demonstrate your core skills and knowledge.
The assignment/assessment is completed entirely without AI assistance.
Students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.
2. AI Planning
2. AI Planning
You may use AI for planning, idea development, and research. Your final submission should show how you have developed and refined these ideas.
Teacher permission has been given
AI may be used for pre-task activities such as brainstorming, outlining and initial research. but assessments should emphasize the ability to develop and refine these ideas independently.
No generative AI is allowed
Students must cite their use of AI
3. AI Collaboration
3. AI Collaboration
Teacher permission has been given
Students may use AI to assist with specific tasks such as drafting text, refining and evaluating your work.
Students must critically evaluate and modify any AI-generated content they use.
Students must cite their use of AI
4. AI Empowered
4. AI Empowered
Teacher permission has been given
Students may use AI to support their work
AI can be used to ‘co-pilot’ student creativity
Assessments at this level may also require engagement with AI to achieve goals and solve problems while demonstrating their critical thinking.
Students must cite their use of AI
5. AI Exploration
5. AI Exploration
AI is used creatively to enhance problem-solving, generate novel insights, or develop innovative solutions to solve problems.
Students use AI creatively to solve the task, potentially co-designing new approaches.
Citing generative AI Content
Citing generative AI Content
If you use AI to assist with any assignment, you should provide credit or a citation explaining how the AI was used. Students should be instructed about properly citing any instances where generative AI tools were used.
If the AI provides the option to share a link to your conversation, you can include the link in your credits section.
Or you can include a simple sentence explaining how you used AI to assist with the assignment, such as "I used Gemini to brainstorm ideas for this report and to give feedback on how I could improve what I wrote."
This document can be used to serve as a basis for classroom guidelines for student use of AI. These guidelines aim to help students make the most of AI for learning and growth while ensuring academic integrity and personal creativity remain central to the learning process. https://bit.ly/aiclassguide
The first step to help manage cheating with AI is simply to define what it means to cheat with AI. There are many ways that AI can be used during a school project, with some uses being beneficial and some being cheating. This is something that each teacher needs to explore and decide what is appropriate in their class, and perhaps per assignment.
Resources for Parents/Families
Resources for Parents/Families
AI Literacy Toolkit for Families Co-Created by Common Sense Media and Day of AI
Example of parent permission - https://www.teachai.org/toolkit-parent
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