Deeper conversations with students about their use of AI
AI talks beyond plagiarism
At my school I’m part of a small group of teacher librarians (3) who run academic integrity sessions. At some point, when talking to students who had used AI without citing it, I realised that I wasn’t getting through to them; they were telling me what they thought I wanted to hear but they didn’t actually feel uncomfortable about handing over their work to AI.
At the same time, I was discouraged to discover quite a few of my own year 11 students using AI, and denying it. I decided to spend a period on the bigger picture aspects of AI use, and my intention was to at least get them thinking about where it’s coming from, implications, what they shouldn’t hand over to AI, which part of their learning process was too valuable to hand over, ethical and environmental considerations, and more.
The result was a rather enormous set of slides with too many issues to discuss in one session. I’m sharing the slides but I only used a selection of them so that there was time for student input, questions and debate. I’m not expecting that this one session will magically steer them onto the right path, but I’m hoping that something in it will resonate and stay with them, get them thinking.
Artificial intelligence: the big picture
Until I learn how to embed Google slides, it will have to be a link.