GenAI Acceptable Usage Menu

GenAI Acceptable Usage Menu

The Kinkaid School • 2024

The Kinkaid School • 2024

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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.

"Our head of school has set two AI-related goals for this school year [2024-2025], one of which was to determine when’s the best age and time and how to introduce AI to students. Secondly, we needed to explore how to make teachers’ lives more productive and efficient and allow them to be more creative. The focus of our work this upcoming year is to really dive into those two particular questions."

Read more in this case study.

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Vinnie Vrotny

The Kinkaid School • Director of Technology

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