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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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🤖 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 ==
-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.
+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 tools are quickly evolving, and they are being incorporated into many popular tools users already know and love (Google Search, Bing Search, Instagram, macOS, iOS, Android, and more). Riverdale will continue to monitor and vet AI platforms so that we can support your work on campus while also protecting your data and activity based on Privacy Policies. Many free AI tools will use your activity to further train their AI models. As a school, we want to protect everyone's online presence as best as possible. Please refer to the resource below for acceptable AI platforms to use at Riverdale. If there is an AI tool or platform you think would be useful for your work at Riverdale, [mailto:support-ticket@riverdale.edu please reach out to the Technology Department by sending an email to support-ticket@riverdale.edu].
+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].
-* [[Use Generative AI Tools]]
+* [[Choose Generative AI Tools]]
 == 📝 Prompt Engineering Tips ==
-No matter how good AI tools get, prompt engineering will always be important. The more detailed and focused your prompt/input is, the better the output you can expect! Find prompt engineering resources below for both faculty and students.
+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 for everyone: if you are not getting the output from an AI tool that you were expecting, don't be discouraged! Prompting is an iterative process, and requires experimentation, time and patience. Once you develop a working prompt model, then you can save a lot of time in the future. [mailto:support-ticket@riverdale.edu Reach out to the Technology Department by sending an email to support-ticket@riverdale.edu] if you would like help developing prompts for your work at Riverdale (as either a teacher or a student). We would be happy to help point you in the right direction!
+'''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]]
-* [[Learn Prompt Engineering (Faculty)]]
 == 📜 Riverdale AI Policy ==
-Riverdale's AI Working Working has worked to create an AI policy for both students and faculty. Some key ideas are outlined below as the AI policy pertains to classroom instruction:
+Riverdale's AI policy guides AI use for students, faculty and other community members:
-* '''''Students CAN ONLY USE AI''''' in ways outlined by their teacher (AI Tutor Chart Levels)
+* '''Students:''' Can only use AI as directed by teachers and utilize school-approved platforms ([[Access Flint|Flint]]).
-* '''''Student CAN ONLY USE''''' school-approved AI platforms (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]).
-* '''''Faculty MUST BE CLEAR''''' about how AI CAN or CANNOT be used on assignments or projects (AI Tutor Chart Levels)
-* '''''Faculty CAN CHOOSE''''' what level of AI is appropriate for their classes, assignments and projects
-For more in-depth information about Riverdale's AI Policy, please find the policy resources as outlined below:
+For details:
-* (Employees) The AI Policy, AI Tutor Chart, and Cover Sheet are linked under the [https://portals.veracross.com/riverdale/faculty/pages/ms-us Employee Portal MS/US Page under '''''Academics''''']
+* '''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) Teachers will share the policy with you in class. It will be linked in the [https://handbook.riverdale.edu Student Handbook] shortly.
+* '''Students:''' Ask your teachers about the policy and find it in the [https://handbook.riverdale.edu/ Student Handbook] soon.
 == 🔎 Detecting AI Work ==
-While it may seem tempting to use AI text detectors to identify potential instances of academic dishonesty, there are several reasons why these tools are not always a good choice. AI text detectors often struggle to accurately identify whether a piece of text was written by a human or generated by AI and do not provide clear explanations for their decisions. This lack of transparency can make it difficult for teachers to justify their conclusions about potential plagiarism or to provide meaningful feedback to students.
+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.
-Given these concerns, '''''Riverdale does not recommend AI detectors''''' in favor of more reliable methods, such as using '''''revision history''''' in Google Workspace or '''''Turnitin's plagiarism detection''''' capabilities. These tools offer a more transparent, effective, and ethical approach to validating student work. More information about Revision History Tools can be found in the article below.
 * [[Validate Student Created Work]]