GenAI Acceptable Usage Menu

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."