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Think of AI as a coach, not a player

Acceptable AI Use in AP Seminar

AI can coach.
It cannot play.

Use AI to support learning, not to bypass the reading, analysis, synthesis, writing, presenting, or defending that you are expected to do yourself.

If a tool gives you words to use, you may not use them. Every submitted word must be 100% yours.

The AP Seminar AI boundary

AI may help you explore or understand. It may not perform an assessed AP Seminar skill for you.

✓ AI may coach

  • Explore broad topics and existing debates
  • Suggest authors, organizations, or publications to investigate
  • Explain difficult vocabulary or a confusing concept after you read the source
  • Explain a general grammar or citation rule
  • Teach general principles of effective presentations

✕ AI may never play

  • Generate a research question, thesis, claim, or outline
  • Summarize a source or find evidence for you
  • Compare, connect, or synthesize sources
  • Write, rewrite, paraphrase, or revise any wording
  • Create slides, speaker notes, or a presentation script
  • Prepare oral-defense questions or answers

Every word must be your own

This classroom requirement applies during brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, editing, slide creation, scripting, and oral-defense preparation. Changing a few words in tool-generated language does not make it your own.

No Grammarly suggestions
No Google writing suggestions
No Smart Compose or predictive text
No “Help me write” tools
No AI rewriting or paraphrasing
No generated transitions or titles

What this looks like during the process

Exploring

AI may identify broad debates or subtopics. It may not create your research question or thesis.

Finding sources

AI may suggest authors or organizations. You must locate, read, verify, and evaluate every original source.

Reading

AI may explain vocabulary or a difficult concept after you read. It may not summarize, paraphrase, or select quotations.

Synthesizing

No acceptable AI use. You must compare perspectives, identify relationships, and put sources into conversation.

Writing & revising

You may study general writing rules. No tool may supply, complete, revise, or rewrite your language.

Presenting & defending

AI may teach general design principles. It may not create your content, script, or oral-defense preparation.

Coach or Player?

Choose whether each use is acceptable. Only one example appears at a time, so the activity stays compact.

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Your process proves authorship

Save your source log, annotations, notes, outlines, drafts, and revision history. You must complete required checkpoints and be able to explain your sources, decisions, reasoning, and development of the work. When in doubt about a tool, ask Mrs. Adams before using it.