The Kinkaid School GenAI Acceptable Usage Menu — Flint AI Policy Library

Kinkaid GEN AI Scale v2.2.pdf

Document Overview

This usage menu put together by the team at The Kinkaid School highlights different levels of acceptable AI use for students. It also clearly outlines how students should disclose their use of AI to their teachers based on the level of usage. In our case study with the school, Vinnie Vrotny, their Director of Technology, described how they initially shared and are continuing to work on these guidelines:

"What we've done for this upcoming year is we have articulated how AI can be used on various different assignments. And again, this is version 2.2. Earlier this fall [2024], we conducted a Lunch and Learn with our Upper School teachers and shared the original version of this menu. We have rolled this out to our Middle School faculty as well. During this Lunch and Learn, some of our math and science teachers came up to us and said, “This is really good and really helpful, and this doesn't address all the ways that we might want to use this within math and science.” They started to make suggestions, which we told them we were open to. We decided to let them as departments first begin to try to define what usage looks like and then share it with us. We recently got their articulation, which we will soon thoroughly go through and vet to have conversations. Then, we will add the various different sets of tools to the menu. That’s the kind of collaborative ethos we're building."

For any materials shared by Kinkaid, especially for the Generative AI Acceptable Use Menu, they ask that if a school uses the materials as the basis of their work, the school 1) keeps the same Creative Commons licensing as on the original and 2) sends Kinkaid a copy of their adaptation so that the Kinkaid team can learn and update their own based upon their additions. You can email any adaptations to Vinnie at vinnie.vrotny@kinkaid.org.

Generative AI Acceptable Usage

  1. No Use
    AI is not permitted on this assignment for any reason.

  1. AI as a Thought Partner

    • Reading: AI may be used to help you analyze the reading, but you must read the text assigned.
    • Content Creation: AI can be used to help you create visualizations or graphs to help identify new patterns or themes, but you must complete the assignment yourself.
    • Problem-Solving: You may use AI to help identify mathematical processing errors and misapplication of principles, but you must correct your work by yourself.

  2. AI as an Editor

    • Content Creation: You can use AI feedback to help edit and revise your original content.

  3. AI as an Analyst

    • Reading: AI may be used to help you analyze the reading, but you must read the text assigned.

  4. AI as a Co-Creator

    • Content Creation: You can use AI to create parts of an assignment as permitted. You need to review AI-created work to ensure its accuracy.

Attributions

The Kinkaid School Generative AI Acceptable Usage Menu © 2024
This document is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Please maintain CC licensing and all attributions in all duplications, references, or remixing.
The Kinkaid School approved AI Platforms are FlintK12, Canva, Typing Mind, and tools in the Adobe Creative Suite (Version 2.2 - as of October 28, 2024).

Other Resources

For any additional inquiries regarding AI principles and policies, please refer to AI Principles and Policies.

Vinnie Vrotny

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