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Class 06 — Academic Integrity & When NOT to Use AI

Date: TODO · Slides: TODO

  • Identify major ethical concerns: privacy, bias, integrity, disclosure.
  • Apply the school’s actual AI policy to real assignment scenarios.
  • Recognize high-risk uses where AI must not be in the loop.
Time Block
0–5 Warm-up: AI-weirdness shares.
5–20 The school’s policy, onscreen, line by line. What’s allowed, what’s cheating, what’s undefined — and that “undefined” means ask, not assume (Q2).
20–35 Case studies: helpful use, cheating, or in between? Short scenarios — using AI to outline but writing yourself; pasting AI text with minor edits; AI explaining a problem you then solve cold; submitting an AI study guide that was wrong. Each case: verdict, and which of the Seven Questions fails.
35–50 Scenario sort (the ethics half): medical/legal/financial decisions without verification, emergencies, sharing passwords or private info, impersonation and misinformation, using AI instead of a counselor or friend. Three piles: use it / use cautiously / don’t. Cite the failing question for each “don’t.”
50–58 Read the article’s own disclosure — how the author used AI to write the post about when to use AI — as the model of Q7 ownership.
58–60 Exit ticket: one scenario where you personally will not use AI, ever.
  • Academic integrity — the work must represent YOUR learning.
  • Disclosure — saying how you used AI when the rules ask (or when it’s the honest thing to do).
  • High-risk domain — where being confidently wrong hurts people: health, legal, money, safety, other humans’ private data.

Q2 (allowed) and Q5 (ethical) — the deep-dive class. Also: every case verdict must name a question, which is how the framework gets internalized.

Interview one teacher (or re-read one syllabus): what’s THEIR AI policy? Log it — policies differ by teacher, and Q2 means reading the actual rules.

  • Bias and privacy get their honest 10 minutes here rather than a full module; copyright/environmental/debate content is cut from the original M3.
  • Guest appearance from a counselor worth arranging for the “instead of a human” pile.