Academic Integrity and AI In PostSecondary Institutions
Academic Integrity and AI In PostSecondary Institutions
The learner will read an article about the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in post-secondary classrooms and institutional responses to these new ways of learning. They will write opinion responses about the value of AI in college and university classes.
- Pen/pencil and paper and/or digital device
- Computer
A1. Read continuous text
Competency A: Find and Use Information
Task Group A1: Read continuous text
Level: 3
At this level, learners: Read longer texts to connect, evaluate, and integrate ideas and information
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Integrates several pieces of information from texts
- Manages unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic) to complete tasks
- Identifies the purpose and relevance of texts
- Skims to get the gist of longer texts
- Begins to recognize bias and points of view in texts
- Infers meaning which is not explicit in texts
- Compares or contrasts information between two or more texts
- Uses organizational features, such as headings, to locate information
- Follows the main events of descriptive, narrative, informational, and persuasive texts
- Obtains information from detailed reading
- Makes meaning of short, creative texts (e.g. poems, short stories)
- Identifies sources, evaluates and integrates information
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task may not be clearly defined
- May involve more than one text
- Is typically longer than one paragraph
- May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)
- May contain specialized vocabulary
Text types:
instructional, descriptive, narrative, informational, and persuasive texts
Examples:
• Newspaper articles
• Textbook entries
• Newsletter articles
• Short creative texts
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario - A1.3
B2. Write continuous text
Competency B: Communicate Ideas and Information
Task Group B2: Write continuous text
Level: 3
At this level, learners: Write longer texts to present information, ideas, and opinions
Performance Descriptors
The learner:
- Writes texts to present information, summarize, express opinions, present arguments, convey ideas, or persuade
- Manages unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic) to complete tasks
- Selects and uses vocabulary, tone, and structure appropriate to the task
- Organizes and sequences writing to communicate effectively
- Uses a variety of vocabulary, structures, and approaches to convey main ideas with supporting details
Task Descriptors
- Scope of task may not be clearly defined
- Content of writing may be non-routine
- Addresses a familiar and unfamiliar audience
- Uses conventions of formality, such as tone, appropriate to the occasion, intent, and content
- Is up to a few pages long
- Requires organization to support the message (e.g. paragraphs, headings, sub-headings)
- May include unfamiliar elements (e.g. vocabulary, context, topic)
- May contain specialized vocabulary
Text types:
instructional, descriptive, narrative, informational, and persuasive texts
Examples:
- Letters
- Reports
- Essays
ESKARGO:
Embedded Skills, Knowledge and Attitudes Reference Guide for Ontario – B2.3