Jefferson Academy · Student Resource

AI is a tool.
Your thinking is the point.

This site helps you understand how to use AI without letting it do your learning for you. Use it with your teacher when AI is allowed for an assignment.

AI does the thinking You do the thinking
The goal: keep the marker on your side.
The Big Idea AI Meter Do's & Don'ts Scenarios Reflect
The question to carry with you
"Is AI doing the thinking for me — or helping me think better?"
What's inside

Six sections to explore

Your teacher will guide you through these. Each one is designed to help you make smarter decisions about when and how to use AI in your schoolwork.

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Section 1

The Big Idea

Why your brain needs to struggle — and what happens when AI skips that for you.

Read it →
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Section 2

The AI Meter

Move sliders to see whether your AI use is supporting your thinking or replacing it.

Try it →
Section 3

Do's & Don'ts

Specific examples of good AI use — concrete enough that you can apply them today.

See examples →
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Section 4

Scenarios

Five real situations — an essay due tonight, a confusing reading, a stuck math problem — with three choices and honest feedback.

Play through →
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Section 5

Reflection Prompts

Six questions for a journal entry or exit ticket. Not graded. Just honest.

Reflect →
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For Teachers

Teacher Tips

Facilitation guidance, discussion questions, and timing notes for using this resource in class.

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How this works

This isn't a self-paced module

This site is meant to be used with your teacher — during class, when AI use has been approved for an assignment. Here's the usual flow:

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Your teacher introduces the big idea and opens the discussion.

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The class tries the AI Meter together on the projector.

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You work through the scenarios — choosing before seeing the feedback.

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You write or discuss your reflection questions to close the lesson.

Jefferson Academy AI Framework — the four levels of AI use

Brain Only No AI. Pure you.
Supporting AI helps you work, not think for you
Scaffolding AI provides structure you build on
Offloading AI does the cognitive work — watch out