With any AI tool you want to make sure you are using it ethically and appropriately. Each classroom and each task will have its own level of AI acceptance. Ensure you understand how much, if any, AI facilitation is permissible for any task. Please ensure you understand how AI may be used for any particular task and a reminder that at ISZL we do not "lift" text generated by AI and use it in our work. This violates our academic honesty (not your work) and integrity (information must be verified) policy. AI tools scour the internet for information, however that information it locates is not always correct. AI can aid you in locating information sources (which you must verify), feedback on ideas/work that you have generated, aid in referencing, spelling/grammar or adapt a text's difficulty or language to help you better understand the material. The column below highlights some documents to help navigate the grey areas when using AI in school.
This work is created by Cora Yang and Dalton Flanagan.
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Graphic: Stephen Taylor at WAB, USEME AI
The IB Academic Integrity Policy lays out guidance for the use of AI Tools for IB students (Appendix 6: Guidance on the use of artificial intelligence tools)
The library has curated some AI resources that may help your academic inquiry.
Please ensure you understand how AI may be used for any particular task and the guidelines ISZL has provided in the adjacent boxes along with prompt writing support.
Perplexity answers questions by surmising information from a variety of sources. Most importantly it identifies the original source and provides direct links to them. It is your job to read through original sources and verify any information you glean from the Perplexity summary.
Elicit searches a variety of online academic databases in order to respond to research questions. It will point you to a variety of academic sources that can help you answer your research question. It is your job to read through the original sources and determine how they contribute to your assignment.
Litmaps finds the articles that are most relevant to your search criteria by analyzing the citation patterns of the articles you select as your input (unlike traditional methods using keyword search).
SciSpace is an AI-driven platform for finding, understanding, and learning any research paper. It can explain and elaborate most academic texts in simple words.
Magic School hosts a variety of different tools for academics. Play around with different features (e.g. leveling challenging reading, summarizing YouTube videos) to see how it can help you.
Otter provides faculty and students with real-time captions and notes for in-person and virtual lectures, classes or meetings. Always inform/ask permission to record a lesson or lecture.
Diffit is an AI tool that differentiates texts to make them accessible to a variety of reading levels and languages.
Mapify is an AI that transforms any content into simple, clear mind maps.
At ISZL we encourage you to use AI image generation ethically.
As a school, we have subscriptions to 2 products that use open-source or copyright-free materials to generate images. Using them means they have not violated copyright rules in order to respond to your prompt.
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Graphic: Jeri Hurd, Adapted from Ditch That Text Book
A comprehensive glossary of generative AI terminology. Thanks to the STEM team from Fullers Library for sharing this resource!
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