These terms help explain the problem and solution. Learn them, and you will be able to talk about AI clearly — with teachers, with classmates, and with yourself.
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- Generative AI
- AI that creates text, images, audio, or other content from a prompt.
- Prompt
- The question or directions given to an AI tool.
- Hallucination
- When AI gives an answer that sounds confident but is false or made up.
- Cognitive offloading
- Letting a tool do the thinking that a student should be developing.
- AI literacy
- Knowing how AI works, what it can do, what it cannot do, and how to use it responsibly.
- Digital citizenship
- Using technology safely, ethically, and responsibly.
- Algorithmic bias
- When AI reflects unfair patterns from the data or systems behind it.
- Privacy
- Protecting personal information when using digital tools.
- Verification
- Checking whether information is accurate before trusting it.
- Human oversight
- A person reviewing AI output instead of blindly accepting it.
- Student agency
- Students taking ownership of their learning choices and effort.
- Productive struggle
- The meaningful effort that helps students actually learn.
- Academic integrity
- Doing honest work and giving credit when help is used.
- AI dependency
- Relying on AI so much that the student stops building their own skills.
- Human connection
- The relationship, care, correction, and guidance that AI cannot replace.