GUARD Focused Lab · Student Card
AI Disclosure Decision
Describe the actual assistance—without hiding substitution.
GUARD focus: G / D · 10–12 minutes · Classes 8–10
Situation
Four students prepare a science presentation. They used a chatbot to brainstorm topics, suggest an outline and edit sentences. One student also used it to generate all calculations without checking them, and another created an AI image without telling the group. The teacher permits limited AI assistance when it is checked and disclosed.
Learning objective
Distinguish assistance from substitution, respect teammate expectations and create a disclosure that describes purpose, contribution, checking and human responsibility.
1. Classify the AI uses
Classify each use in this assignment context.
Categories: Assistance, Substitution, Depends on checks, permission or disclosure
The group asks for possible topic angles, then chooses and develops one themselves.The teacher permits brainstorming support.
A complete analysis is generated and submitted unchanged as the group's reasoning.The assignment assesses the group's analysis.
After writing a draft, students use sentence-level editing suggestions and accept only changes they understand.Editing support is permitted when disclosed if required.
An AI image is added without checking licence, accuracy or teammate agreement.The image is not the assessed core, but its provenance and group use are unresolved.
The AI performs every calculation and no student checks or understands the method.The presentation requires students to explain the calculations.
Reasoning:
2. Respect the group
What should happen before the presentation is submitted?
- Say nothing because each student controls the tools used on their own section.
- Tell the group, review the calculations and image, remove or correct problematic material, and agree on the disclosure.
- Remove every AI-assisted sentence without discussion, even if it was permitted and verified.
Reasoning:
3. Build the disclosure
Select the elements an accurate disclosure should include.
- □ The AI tool or feature used, where required by school instructions.
- □ The purpose: brainstorming, outline support, editing, image generation or another specific use.
- □ What the AI actually contributed.
- □ What the students verified, changed or created themselves.
- □ That the students reviewed and remain responsible for the final submission.
- □ A vague sentence saying “AI may have been used” without describing how.
- □ Only disclose uses the teacher is likely to detect.
Reasoning:
4. Choose the final statement
After the group verifies the outline and edits, independently redoes the calculations and checks the image, which disclosure is strongest?
- “AI was used.”
- “We used an AI tool to brainstorm topic angles, suggest an outline, edit selected sentences and generate an image. We checked the factual content and image, redid the calculations ourselves, revised the final work and remain responsible for the presentation.”
- “No AI produced the final presentation because we edited the output.”
Reasoning:
Final reflection
What evidence or stakeholder consideration most affected your decision?