ELA Lesson: Responsible Use of Gen AI
Lesson Plan
1 hourGrades9, 10English Language Arts
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Written by Kara Hisatake
About this lesson
Students discuss the pros and cons of using generative artificial intelligence as a learning aid, taking into account the hazards they learned about previously in this unit, including hallucination, bias, and environmental impact. Students analyze acceptable use policies from different schools to discern how effectively the policies address the hazards, as well as the potential for generative AI to help or hinder learning. As a class, students create an acceptable use policy for generative AI.
Inquire: Students discuss the benefits and drawbacks of using generative artificial intelligence in the classroom.
Investigate: Students read and analyze the acceptable use policies for generative artificial intelligence from different schools.
Inspire: Students create examples of acceptable and unacceptable use of generative artificial intelligence for their school.
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- This lesson aligns with Hawai’i’s Nā Hopena A‘o HĀ-BREATH Framework.
- This lesson can be taught at the beginning of the year or semester to help teach academic integrity, plagiarism, and citations.
- This lesson can be taught in conjunction with librarians or technology departments.
- This lesson connects social-emotional learning and acceptable use of technology on school campuses.
Prerequisites
- This is lesson 3 of 3 in our 9th-10th grade ELA Unit: Generative AI.
- Teachers should test out or be familiar with ChatGPT and Gemini and have an account for both.
- Teachers should review the best use practices for technology at their school, including what websites or applications are allowed, and be able to provide this policy to students.
- Teachers should read the Acceptable Use Policies and review the Teacher Answer Key ahead of time.
- Teachers should have their own Classroom Acceptable Use Policy for Generative AI.
Differentiation
- This lesson can be extended by addressing specific situations in the classroom. For example, teachers can walk students through an assignment and show them how they can and cannot use generative AI to complete it.
- This lesson can be scaffolded by pulling out key paragraphs from each policy ahead of time; teachers may also allow students to use AI to help summarize the policies.
- This lesson can be made more challenging for advanced students by having them create more examples of acceptable use of generative AI for the classroom, or create specific acceptable use policies for different disciplines, such as science, or a list of policies that address particular challenges, such as bias or environmental impact.
- Students may look up AUP for colleges they are interested in attending, and discuss what the policy shows about that college’s standpoint on students and technology.
From the scientist review
In order to comprehend the ethical use of Gen AI, this lesson allows students to examine and contrast various school-based regulations on the technology, and create an actionable guide on the ethical use of Gen AI for educational purposes, The lesson passed our science credibility conditions when we reviewed it.
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Kara Hisatake
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Kara Hisatake holds a PhD in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz and a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She has more than six years of experience teaching high school English Language Arts for grades 9–12. Her expertise is in literature and English language arts education.
