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AI for Students Resource Centre

Use AI to strengthen your thinking, not replace it.

Learn how to use artificial intelligence productively, check what it tells you, protect your information, follow school rules, and remain responsible for your own work.

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Understand what AI can do and where it falls short.

Artificial intelligence can recognize patterns and generate responses from data. It can be useful, but it does not automatically know what is true, fair, current or appropriate for your assignment.

01

AI Predicts

Many AI tools produce likely words, images or answers based on patterns. A confident response is not proof that the response is correct.

02

AI Can Be Wrong

AI may invent facts, quotations, references, calculations or explanations. These errors are sometimes called hallucinations.

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AI Can Reflect Bias

AI responses may repeat unfair assumptions or overlook Caribbean experiences, cultures, language and local context.

04

You Remain Responsible

You are responsible for what you submit, share or act on, even when an AI system produced part of the answer.

Productive Study

Follow the Think, Ask, Check, Create and Credit cycle.

Use AI as a study partner that supports your effort. Do not let it perform all the thinking that you are supposed to practise.

1

Think

Attempt the task and identify what you understand or need help with.

2

Ask

Request an explanation, example, question or feedback connected to your goal.

3

Check

Verify important claims using your notes, textbook and trusted sources.

4

Create

Write, solve and explain the final work using your own understanding.

5

Credit

Disclose AI assistance when your teacher, school or assignment requires it.

Generally Productive

Green-light uses

  • Ask for a simpler explanation of a difficult concept.
  • Generate practice questions, flashcards or a revision timetable.
  • Request feedback on clarity without asking AI to replace your work.
  • Brainstorm possible approaches before selecting and developing your own.
  • Practise a language, interview or oral presentation.
Check First

Yellow-light uses

  • Using AI on homework, coursework, SBAs or graded assignments.
  • Rewriting paragraphs or translating work that will be assessed.
  • Uploading class material, student work, photographs or recordings.
  • Using AI-generated facts, citations, code or calculations.
  • Any use when the teacher's instructions are unclear.
Do Not Do This

Red-light uses

  • Submit AI-generated work as if you created it independently.
  • Use AI during a test or assessment when it is not permitted.
  • Create impersonations, deceptive images, bullying content or rumours.
  • Share passwords, private messages, addresses or confidential information.
  • Use AI to harm, threaten, embarrass, deceive or exploit another person.

Prompting Tutorial

Give clear instructions without giving away your thinking.

A prompt is the instruction or question you give an AI system. Better prompts explain the learning goal and ask the AI to support your thinking instead of completing the task.

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Context

State the subject, topic and your level.

L

Learning goal

Explain what you want to understand or practise.

E

Exact output

Ask for a quiz, steps, comparison, hint or feedback.

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Appropriate limits

Request simple language, no final answer or one step at a time.

R

Review

Question the response and check important information.

Example study prompt
“I am a secondary-school student revising photosynthesis. Ask me five questions from easy to challenging, one at a time. Do not reveal an answer until I respond. Explain any mistake in simple language and tell me what concept to review.”

Follow-up: “Which part of my answer was correct? Give me one hint before showing the complete explanation.”

Caribbean students compare chaotic and organized results in a playful AI prompt arcade

Accuracy, Bias and Misinformation

Never confuse a fluent answer with a verified answer.

Check information before you learn it, submit it or share it. Extra care is required for health, safety, legal, financial or other high-impact decisions.

  1. 1
    Identify the claim.

    What specific fact, quotation, calculation or conclusion needs evidence?

  2. 2
    Find the original source.

    Look for a textbook, teacher-approved source, official organization or original publication.

  3. 3
    Compare at least two sources.

    Do independent reliable sources agree on the important point?

  4. 4
    Check date and context.

    Is the information current, complete and relevant to your country or assignment?

  5. 5
    Look for missing perspectives.

    Whose experience is represented, ignored or described unfairly?

Practical Activity

AI Answer Audit

  1. Ask an AI tool a factual question connected to a current topic.
  2. Highlight every statement that can be checked.
  3. Verify three claims using trusted sources.
  4. Record what was correct, unclear, incomplete or wrong.
  5. Rewrite the answer using only verified information.

Do not use a fabricated citation simply because it looks realistic. Open and verify every source before including it.

Academic Honesty

Your submission should represent your learning.

Different teachers and schools may have different AI rules. Ask before using AI on assessed work and follow the instructions given for that assignment.

Responsible behaviour

  • Follow the assignment's AI rules.
  • Keep drafts, notes and sources that show your process.
  • Check, edit and understand everything you submit.
  • Explain how AI assisted when disclosure is required.
  • Be prepared to discuss or reproduce your work.

Dishonest behaviour

  • Submitting generated work as your independent work.
  • Inventing sources or pretending you read material you did not check.
  • Using AI secretly when the teacher prohibited it.
  • Changing a few words while keeping AI's complete reasoning or structure.
  • Helping another student bypass assessment rules.
Simple AI-use statement

“I used [name of tool] to help me [describe the permitted task]. I checked the response using [sources or method], and I created and reviewed the final work myself.”

Privacy, Security and Digital Citizenship

Protect yourself and other people.

Anything entered into an online AI service may be stored or processed. Treat every prompt, upload and generated file as a digital-safety decision.

Protect Personal Information

  • Never enter passwords, security codes or banking details.
  • Avoid full names, addresses, phone numbers and precise locations.
  • Do not upload private conversations, school records or identification.
  • Get permission before uploading another person's work, photo or voice.

Recognize AI-Enabled Harm

  • Question urgent messages, unusual requests and unbelievable offers.
  • Verify voices, images and videos that may be manipulated.
  • Do not create or forward deceptive, sexual, humiliating or violent content.
  • Report impersonation, threats, extortion or cyberbullying to a trusted adult.

Pause Before You Act

  • Check links and file types before opening downloads.
  • Do not follow instructions that request secrecy or risky behaviour.
  • Ask a trusted adult when advice could affect health, safety or wellbeing.
  • Block and report suspicious accounts or harmful content.
Caribbean student digital detectives investigate manipulated images, suspicious links and privacy risks

Student and Classroom Activities

Practise responsible decisions before they matter.

These activities can be completed individually, in class or through a supervised club. An AI account is not required for every activity.

01

Spot the Error

Review a sample AI answer containing three planted mistakes. Identify each error and explain how you verified it.

Output: corrected answer with sources.
02

Prompt Ladder

Improve a vague prompt through three versions by adding context, a learning goal, limits and a checking request.

Output: three prompts and a comparison.
03

Two-Source Challenge

Select one claim and compare it with two reliable independent sources. Record agreement, differences and missing context.

Output: short verification table.
04

My AI Use Plan

Write personal rules explaining when you will use AI, when you will ask permission and what information you will never share.

Output: one-page responsible-use plan.

Reflection prompts

How can AI support your learning without removing the useful struggle of thinking?

What will you do the next time an AI answer sounds convincing but provides no evidence?

How would you explain your AI use honestly to a teacher?

Which personal information will you never enter into an AI tool?