Use generative AI as an assistant for planning, brainstorming, differentiation, feedback, and workflow—not as a substitute for teacher expertise, student thinking, credible sources, or professional responsibility.
AI can confidently invent quotations, citations, dates, archives, interpretations, and source details. Historical claims should be verified against reliable primary sources, reputable scholarship, museums, archives, government collections, or other authoritative references.
Give the role, learners, goal, evidence, constraints, and verification requirement.
Example structure:
“Act as an instructional planning assistant. Help me design a Grade 8 history activity about [topic]. Students should [learning goal]. The evidence of learning will be [product]. Keep the task within [time]. Include supports for [learner need]. Flag any historical claims that require verification and do not invent citations or quotations.”
Students should know when AI assistance is permitted and how to acknowledge meaningful use when required.
Generated information should be checked against appropriate sources before being treated as evidence.
The final reasoning, interpretation, argument, and decisions should still belong to the learner when those are the objectives being assessed.