Responsible Learning Guidelines

For students

• Protect privacy. Never enter your own or someone else’s private details into an unapproved AI tool.
• Ask first. A parent, teacher or program facilitator can tell you which tools you’re allowed to use.
• AI can be wrong. Check important claims with a trustworthy source.
• Be honest. Follow your school’s academic-integrity rules and say when AI helped you.
• Use fictional or public information in your projects.
• People are responsible for decisions. A person should check anything important.

For families, educators and partners

• No student needs a third-party AI account to read these lessons. Activities have offline and facilitator-led options.
• Age rules and access differ by provider, product, account type and institution. Check the current terms and your school’s policy before any live use. Do not assume a tool is available to every student.
• Grade 7 may include students under 13. Prefer teacher-operated demonstrations, offline activities or an approved education environment.
• Live tool use requires agreed approvals, permissions, supervision, acceptable-use rules and data safeguards.
• No personal, medical or financial information, identifiable student work or protected school data in public AI services.
• No AI-driven external actions for minors, such as sending email, making purchases, posting publicly or accessing sensitive accounts. Simulations teach the same ideas.
• State or agency guidance is guidance, not permission to use a particular tool. Follow applicable law and district policy.

About the AI products we mention

Our lessons refer to Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude as examples so that students learn ideas that transfer. These mentions are informational. They are not endorsements, and they do not mean these companies sponsor or partner with this program.