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    Student Responsible AI Use

    AI presents real opportunities to improve learning but must be used conscientiously. Even where it may be possible to plug an assignment into AI, educational research demonstrates that such shortcuts can undermine the cognitive process that helps learners grasp and retain concepts. A few principles can help students prioritize learning alongside AI:

     

    Learning

    •  Be mindful of when in the process you are incorporating AI. Try tasks without AI first, for example, brainstorming ideas for an essay.

    • When receiving AI feedback on writing, think first about what you would like feedback on — for example, structure, syntax, flow. Pick discrete passages and sentences to receive feedback on rather than submitting entire essays or works into an AI tool.

    • Don’t forget about paper and pencil. Physically writing down notes and information is proven to aid the learning and retention process.

    • Prompting guides your experience. If you ask AI to be your tutor, it can adopt that frame of reference and help you work toward an answer rather than providing one. MIT has a guide on how to prompt effectively and UChicago provides prompt-response examples to inform student use.

    Transparency & Trust

    • Verify the accuracy of AI-generated text and sources. AI is known to hallucinate, meaning it can provide information that sounds true but isn’t accurate or is incomplete. Any AI generated text requires the same close reading and bibliographic research that reading any new source requires.

    • Policies should be established that require disclosure of AI use, in alignment with academic integrity standards.

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