Title: Artificial Intelligence and You: Your New (Super) Classmate?
Course: AI tools for students > Section: 6. AI in Assessment and Feedback - Talking to AI: Chatbots and Virtual Friends (SK)

You may have already heard about artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, or other tools that can write texts, draw pictures, or solve problems. These technologies are also entering schools and changing the way we learn. AI is not your competitor or a replacement for your teacher. It's more like a new, extremely fast, and knowledgeable classmate that you need to learn to work with correctly.

How can AI help you? (The Good Sides)

- Personalized Learning: AI can figure out what you're great at and where you have gaps. Based on this, it can offer you exercises that are just right for you – not too easy, not too hard.
- Instant Feedback: Have you written an essay and are unsure about the grammar? Tools like Grammarly will correct your mistakes right away. With online quizzes, you get the result immediately; you don't have to wait for the teacher to grade it. This helps you learn faster.
- An Assistant Available 24/7: Need something explained at midnight while doing your homework? A chatbot can help you when everyone else is asleep.
- Creativity Support: Don't know how to start a project? AI can suggest an outline or ideas. It can help you create images for a presentation or even music for a video.

How to use AI responsibly? (The Rules of the Game)

AI is a powerful tool, but like any tool, it has its rules. Breaking them can do you more harm than good.

- Don't be a cheater: Copying an entire text from AI and submitting it as your own work is plagiarism. It's the same as copying a test from a classmate. The goal of school is for you to learn something, not for AI to show what it knows
- Think critically and verify: AI is not infallible. It sometimes makes up facts, provides inaccurate information, or makes mistakes. Always verify important information from multiple trustworthy sources.
- Use it as a helper, not a replacement: AI can help you brainstorm ideas, check your work, or find information. But the final piece, your thoughts, and your personal contribution are what count and are graded.
- Protect your privacy: Never enter your personal data, such as your address, phone number, passwords, or sensitive information about yourself or others, into publicly available AI tools.

Conclusion:

Artificial intelligence is here and it's not going away. Learning to work with it is a new skill, just like reading or writing. Use its strengths, but always keep its limits and ethical rules in mind. Your goal is to become a person who can intelligently collaborate with artificial intelligence.