Computing · Stage 6

Academic Integrity & Acknowledging AI

Integrity online — doing your own honest work, and giving credit when a tool or an AI helped you

✦ Computing📘 Stage 6 · S6⏱ ~10 min🧒 Ages 10–12★ Free to start

I can do honest work and acknowledge when AI helped.

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Kavi Gives Credit

Kavi used a clever AI tool to help brainstorm ideas for a poster, then drew and wrote the whole poster owl-self. At the bottom Kavi added one small line: "AI helped me brainstorm the ideas." A friend frowned. "Why tell everyone? Nobody would know." Kavi smiled. "Honest work means the thinking is really mine — and when something helps me, I say so. That way people know what I can really do, and the credit stays fair." Grandma nodded. "Using a tool isn't the problem, little one. Hiding that you used it is. Do your own work — and acknowledge your help."

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What your child will learn

1Honest work, and acknowledging helpAcademic integrity means doing your work honestly and being open about any help. Tap each part to learn what it means.

2Same AI tool — two very different choicesUsing an AI tool is not the problem. Hiding it, and letting it do your thinking, is. Tap each card to hear the difference.

3Is this honest work, or not honest?Your own thinking — or help that is allowed and acknowledged — is honest. Hiding help or passing off others' work is not. Tap the right box for each one.

4You used AI to help plan. What now?Kavi used an AI to help plan an essay, then wrote the essay owl-self. Predict the honest choice, then reveal.

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A peek inside

What does it mean to do honest work?

the thinking, ideas and words are truly your own — and if someone or something helped, you say so

Try this at home: Work where the thinking and words are really your own is called ____ work.

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