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Summary	Guide to AI at Riverdale
Author	Maintained by Matthijs van Mierlo
Help	Get help with this article
Status	Up-to-date for the 2024-2025 school year.

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Latest revision as of 21:17, 25 February 2025

🤖 Introduction

As AI evolves, schools must understand how different AI tools fit (or don't fit) on campus. These resources help you explore AI in your teaching practice and also support your daily work.

🛠️ Recommended Tools

AI is rapidly changing and being integrated into familiar tools. Riverdale continuously monitors and vets AI platforms to support your work while protecting your data. Many free AI tools use your activity to train their models, so we prioritize protecting everyone's online presence. Refer to the resource below for acceptable AI platforms at Riverdale. To suggest a useful AI tool, email the Technology Department at support-ticket@riverdale.edu.

Choose Generative AI Tools

📝 Prompt Engineering Tips

Effective AI use requires strong prompts. Detailed and focused input yields the best output. Find prompt engineering resources below for students, faculty and administrators.

Tip: Prompting is iterative. Experiment, be patient, and refine your prompts for better results. For help with prompt development, email support-ticket@riverdale.edu! We're happy to help you brainstorm and develop better prompts.

Learn Prompt Engineering

📜 Riverdale AI Policy

Riverdale's AI policy guides AI use for students, faculty and other community members:

Students: Can only use AI as directed by teachers and utilize school-approved platforms (Flint).
Faculty: Must clearly define how AI can be used and can choose the appropriate level of AI use for their classes (AI Tutor Chart).

For details:

Employees: Access the AI Policy, AI Tutor Chart, and Cover Sheet on the Employee Portal MS/US Page under Academics
Students: Ask your teachers about the policy and find it in the Student Handbook soon.

🔎 Detecting AI Work

AI text detectors are unreliable and often inaccurate. Riverdale recommends against them. Instead, use reliable methods like revision history in Google Workspace or Turnitin's plagiarism detection.

Validate Student Created Work

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-== Introduction ==
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-As AI continues to evolve, we have a responsibility to understand how AI might fit—or not fit—into our classrooms so we can best guide our students, support each other, and explore ways that we (as educators) can use AI to support our teaching practices and curriculum development. The resources below are meant to help you explore ways you can incorporate AI into your teaching practice and other day-to-day work for the school.
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-== Recommended Tools ==
+== 🤖 Introduction ==
-AI tools are quickly evolving.[[Use Generative AI Tools]]
+As AI evolves, schools must understand how different AI tools fit (or don't fit) on campus. These resources help you explore AI in your teaching practice and also support your daily work.
-[[Learn Prompt Engineering (Faculty)]]
+== 🛠️ Recommended Tools ==
+AI is rapidly changing and being integrated into familiar tools. Riverdale continuously monitors and vets AI platforms to support your work while protecting your data. Many free AI tools use your activity to train their models, so we prioritize protecting everyone's online presence.  Refer to the resource below for acceptable AI platforms at Riverdale. To suggest a useful AI tool, [mailto:support-ticket@riverdale.edu email the Technology Department at support-ticket@riverdale.edu].
-[[Validate Student Created Work]]
+* [[Choose Generative AI Tools]]
-[[Access Flint]]
+== 📝 Prompt Engineering Tips ==
+Effective AI use requires strong prompts. Detailed and focused input yields the best output. Find prompt engineering resources below for students, faculty and administrators.
+'''Tip:''' Prompting is iterative. Experiment, be patient, and refine your prompts for better results.  For help with prompt development, [mailto:support-ticket@riverdale.edu email support-ticket@riverdale.edu]! We're happy to help you brainstorm and develop better prompts.
+* [[Learn Prompt Engineering]]
+== 📜 Riverdale AI Policy ==
+Riverdale's AI policy guides AI use for students, faculty and other community members:
+* '''Students:''' Can only use AI as directed by teachers and utilize school-approved platforms ([[Access Flint|Flint]]).
+* '''Faculty:''' Must clearly define how AI can be used and can choose the appropriate level of AI use for their classes ([https://portals.veracross.com/riverdale/faculty/pages/ms-us AI Tutor Chart]).
+For details:
+* '''Employees:''' Access the AI Policy, AI Tutor Chart, and Cover Sheet on the [https://portals.veracross.com/riverdale/faculty/pages/ms-us Employee Portal MS/US Page under '''''Academics''''']
+* '''Students:''' Ask your teachers about the policy and find it in the [https://handbook.riverdale.edu/ Student Handbook] soon.
+== 🔎 Detecting AI Work ==
+AI text detectors are unreliable and often inaccurate. Riverdale recommends against them. Instead, use reliable methods like revision history in Google Workspace or Turnitin's plagiarism detection.
+* [[Validate Student Created Work]]