Integrating AI in Learning

GenAI is an optional learning tool available to students in Grades 7 to 12 to use under the guidance of their educator for school-related work. Educators may choose to include, limit, or omit the use of GenAI tools at their discretion. 

When permitted, students should consider the following framework to use GenAI to ensure outputs are accurate, responsible, and reflective of their own thinking. (Adapted from Perkins, Furze, Roe and McVaugh (2024)

No AI

  • The task is completed entirely without AI assistance, ensuring that students rely solely on their existing knowledge, understanding, and skills.

AI Planning

  • AI may be used for pre-task activities such as brainstorming, outlining, and initial research and students refine the ideas independently in the final task. 

AI Collaboration

  • AI may be used to help complete the task, including idea generation, drafting, feedback, and refinement. Students should critically evaluate and modify the AI-suggested outputs to demonstrate their understanding. 

Full AI

  • AI may be used to complete any elements of the task, with students directing AI to achieve the assessment goals. Assessments at this level may also require engagement with AI to achieve goals and solve problems

Academic Integrity & Citations

When using GenAI tools, it’s important to be honest about which parts are your own work and which parts were assisted by a GenAI tool. Copying from GenAI tools without citation is plagiarism. 

A key part of academic integrity is making sure to include a statement about how you used GenAI in your assignment. This could include revising, researching or editing and might look like:

  • Created with editing assistance by Gemini.
  • I used Gemini to help me brainstorm ideas for my project.
  • Image created with Gemini. Prompt: “Create an image of a brown dog with floppy ears”.
  • I used Gemini to summarize my research.

If a citation is required, you should check with your teacher for guidance on which style to use and how to cite the use of GenAI. Citation styles include:

Plagiarism can be a concern when using GenAI. Although the output generated may appear unique, it is actually a compilation of:

  • Other users’ work
  • Publicly available information from the Internet

Fair Use and Copyright

Using content created by Generative AI (GenAI) can unintentionally lead to infringements on intellectual property rights because these AI models are trained on copyrighted material. Users should be aware that utilizing GenAI-generated content may:

  • Violate copyright laws
  • Create ambiguity regarding the ownership rights of AI-generated works
  • Involve the use of unlicensed content included in the AI’s training data

The legal landscape surrounding the use of GenAI is still unclear. In some cases, the outputs may closely resemble the original protected works, which increases the risk of infringement.