ASM’s AI PHILOSOPHY AND POSITION by Division
US Student Handbook, ASM Philosophy on Academic Integrity
MS Student Handbook, Academic Integrity (pgs. 33-36)
As with other tools, ASM’s philosophy is not to ban but to teach how to use it appropriately. Inspired by Lincoln School draft philosophy and
practices statement.
We believe:
Schools must prepare students for the future with transferable skills, dispositions, and knowledge.
Generative AI tools will be an exciting part of this future.
As members of a learning institution, we should all be curious about the potential of these tools and how we can use them as resources within and outside the context of the school experience.
As a school, focused through our mission of empowering students to be lifelong learners who can care for others and build toward a better future, we embrace the opportunities provided by generative AI tools to support us in our goals.
We recognize potential conflicts:
Adaptation and evolution are the norm across both societies and education.
All learners, including students, teachers, and other community members, will adopt generative AI technologies at different times and rates.
Over-reliance on generative AI tools may create dependency and reduce critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
All members of the community will need to learn to be critical of the data outputted by generative AI due to its nature of drawing from all areas of the internet indiscriminately.
We will:
Develop practices that both embrace new technologies in positive ways and that also guide and teach all users how to make constructive use of them while avoiding the negative consequences of their adoption.
Take a collaborative approach as generative AI evolves by communicating policies, guidelines and learning opportunities with the ASM community.
Take an iterative approach to adapt to such technologies with educator training at the center.
Maintain transparency through policies, communication updates, and shared conversations.
Review and update our approaches on a regular and frequent basis
STUDENT PRACTICES (Taken from ChatGPT)
It's important for students to use ChatGPT appropriately and to understand its limitations. ChatGPT is an AI language model that relies on the data it was trained on, and it may not always provide accurate or appropriate responses. Therefore, students should use ChatGPT as a supplemental tool rather than a substitute for critical thinking, independent research, and the guidance of their teachers and mentors.
Students will:
Abide by all guidance on the processes they are to use that will support the authentication of their work.
When working independently (at home or on any assessment) all preparatory work must be completed in a Google document that will be made fully accessible to the teacher upon request.
Be able to explain to their teacher the development of their work throughout the creation process and oblige a request for an oral examination or interview.
Be transparent about when and how they use generative AI by clearly referencing AI tools in the body of their work and add it to the bibliography.
Use in-text citation and contain quotation marks using the appropriate referencing style and the citation should also contain the prompt. (According to ChatGPT, "insert the information you obtained from the chatbot here" (ChatGPT, 2023)..
RESOURCES CITED
OpenAI (2023), ChatGPT (3.5) [Software]. Retrieved from https://chat.openai.com/
ChatGPT (2023, April). [Conversation with user]. Message posted to https://chat.openai.com/
Lincoln School “DRAFT Philosophy & Practices Relating to the Use of Generative AI Tools in the High School at LCS”. 14 February 2023.
MIT Raise
Computational thinking is recognized as a new literacy for the 21st century. AI literacy is also becoming recognized as important for STEAM education on a global scale. We are collaborating with schools, education nonprofits, and industry to develop and disseminate K-12 AI education programs to serve students, teachers, and families worldwide.
For Parents: The MIT Media Lab’s Personal Robots Group has launched AI curricula and workshops with hundreds of students at a variety of ages. One thing we heard was that parents wanted to have productive conversations with their kids about tech in a way that encouraged critical thinking and assessment of the technologies their children use. So, we created this guide to help structure conversations around potentially controversial topics that relate to technology and AI. We break down our tips below through the following four steps: Prepare, Engage, Reflect, Repeat. We also include example discussion questions and a section below for resource articles. Guide is available HERE.
For Teachers: Google and MIT RAISE, part of MIT Open Learning, have created a free Generative AI for Educators course. The online, two-hour, self-paced course is designed to help middle and high school teachers use generative AI tools to personalize instruction to meet student needs, develop creative lessons and activities, and save time on administrative tasks. Teachers who complete the course will earn a certificate that can be presented to their district for professional development credit. The course combines Google and MIT RAISE’s technological expertise and shared commitment to promoting useful and responsible AI education. Teachers and administrators can access the course on the Grow with Google website.
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