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| DEFINITIONS |
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): Creates new content like text, images, audio, or code based data it’s been trained on. It’s like a creative machine (EX: ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot, etc.) Predictive Artificial Intelligence (PAI): Makes predictions based on patterns from historical data (EX: Grammarly, Google Doc word prediction, YouTube suggested videos, etc.) Algorithm: A set of instructions the AI follows to learn and generate content. Think of it as a recipe for creativity. Training Data: The information the AI learns from such as books, pictures, or code. It’s like giving the AI building blocks for its creations. Responsible Use: Using GenAI tools in a way that is ethical, legal, and respectful of others. Prompt/Prompting: User-generated instructions for a GenAI tool to use when creating a response. |
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POTENTIAL |
The Linn-Mar Community School District acknowledges the importance of responsible AI use, which varies across different school sites, classroom settings, positions, and departments. Staff will inform students if, when, and how AI tools may be used in learning using the common district student guidelines outlined below as a reference. Staff should inform students in a course syllabus, or prior to a learning experience, what permitted use of AI is acceptable for the course/task. | |
| CONTINUUM OF USE WITH AI | PERMITTED USE | |
| No Use | GenAI may not be used for academic tasks in any form, and the use of such tools is strictly prohibited. | |
| Clarifying | GenAI may be used to gain clarity on academic content. | |
| Planning | GenAI may be used for the planning elements of academic tasks such as gaining inspiration, ideation, brainstorming, organizing, structuring, etc. | |
| Drafting | GenAI may be used for drafting the first version of work for an academic task. | |
| Revising | GenAI may be used to gain feedback for making improvements to the clarity or quality of work to improve the final product. | |
| Finalizing |
All submitted work by a student must either be original work or properly attributed to external sources, as stated by the academic Code of Conduct. This includes students acknowledging all instances in which GenAI tools were used in an academic task. Students should include the following language to attribute the use of AI: “I acknowledge the use of [Insert AI system(s) and link(s)] to [Explain specific use of GenAI]. The prompts used included [List of the prompts used]. The output from these prompts was used to [Explain use of output].” |
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| The Linn-Mar Community School District recognizes staff may leverage GenAI to streamline workflows such as content development, assessment design, feedback, communications, etc. Staff are responsible for critically evaluating AI-generated content, acknowledging its use, and ensuring compliance with board policy; as well as local, state, and federal regulations related to GenAI in education. | ||
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PROHIBITED |
GenAI tools may NOT be used for the following purposes: *Supplant Core Curriculum: Staff should not use GenAI to create content that supplants the adopted core curriculum. *Supplant Staff Agency and Accountability: Staff should not use GenAI to supplant the role of human educators in instructing students. *Compromise Privacy/Security: Staff should not use GenAI in ways that compromise staff and/or student privacy/security. *Vetted GenAI: Staff should not use GenAI applications that have not been vetted by the district. |
| REVIEW | The staff guidelines for GenAI will be reviewed on an annual basis and updated as needed. |
| SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS | Be Aware of Potential Bias: AI algorithms can reflect the biases present in the data they are trained on. Be critical of the outputs from GenAI tools as they are prone to generating made up information. |
Adopted: 4/25
Related Policy: 603.16; 603.16-R1-R2