This lesson discusses how students can use AI tools responsibly and ethically to support their learning.
Module 2: Getting Creative with AI in the Classroom
This second module invites you to explore creativity in practice — not as something purely artistic or abstract, but as a mindset for flexible, learner-centred teaching.
🧑🎓 Section 4: Student-Facing Use - With Integrity
As AI tools become more accessible, students are increasingly using them to support their learning. It’s important to guide students on how to use these tools responsibly and ethically.
AI can help learners generate ideas, draft responses, or simplify complex concepts. But the goal isn’t to let AI think for students - it’s to help students think with AI.
Here are some simple practices that keep learning at the centre:
Scaffold Use
| Challenge | Better Design |
|---|---|
| Copy-paste from ChatGPT or other AI tools | Ask students to annotate how AI helped them |
| AI writes everything | Provide both AI + human responses to compare |
| Hard to assess learning | Use process-based tasks (draft → critique → improve) |
Example Student Tasks
| Task | What it Builds |
|---|---|
| Use ChatGPT to generate ideas, then pick the best one | Evaluation, judgment |
| Get a draft answer, then rewrite it in your own words | Ownership, literacy |
| Compare your paragraph with an AI version | Editing, metacognition |
| Ask DALL·E to visualise a concept | Comprehension, interpretation |
💡 Tip: Invite learners to reflect - “What did AI get wrong or miss and why?”
🪶 Kaupapa Māori Lens
Tino Rangatiratanga o ngā Ākonga | Self-Determination and Learner Agency
Tino rangatiratanga is the authority to act with self-determination.
When ākonga use AI, they should do so in ways that reflect their values, voice, and identity — not replace them.
Ngā Mahi | In Practice
- Encourage critical use of AI as a thinking partner, not a replacement for voice.
- Teach ākonga to question, evaluate, and shape AI outputs so their mana remains intact.
Tohutohu | Guidelines for Ākonga
When AI gives you an answer, ask yourself:
- Does this represent me?
- Does it honour my voice and my thinking?
- Have I added my own whakaaro, or just copied and pasted?
- Would I be proud to put my name on this?
💭 Whaiwhakaaro | Reflection
Am I teaching my ākonga to use AI with agency and integrity — or dependence?