Student Workshop - Generative Artificial Intelligence
By Danny Viotto
In order to ensure a consistent learning experience for all of our students in Grades 9–12, and to provide meaningful context around the opportunities and challenges that Generative AI presents for student learning, a series of workshops has been developed and will take place next Thursday and Friday, Feb. 26 and 27. Topic ideas were informed by input from members of our AI Faculty Task Force and AI Student Advisory Group.
Overview of the Sessions
Students will attend four 30-minute sessions with their Homeroom class on their designated half day.
Students will attend four 30-minute sessions with their Homeroom class on their designated half day.
Prompting and Critical Analysis
This session will introduce students to the "RCTO" structural framework—Role, Context, Task, and Output—to enhance the precision and utility of AI-generated content. Through a series of collaborative "Prompt Battles," participants will engage in iterative testing to observe how specific constraints and perspectives fundamentally alter the quality of AI responses. Students will be given strategies for applying a critical lens to AI outputs to ensure they remain the primary evaluators of information.
Study Support
This session will assist in shifting student’s study habits from passive reading to a high-intensity "Cognitive Gym." Students will learn to use AI as a training partner that forces your brain to stay active, engaged, and effectively challenged. Our goal is to hand you the tools to transform "staring at a page" into an interactive workout that builds durable, long-term memory.
AI Writing: Using advanced writing techniques
This session focuses on advanced AI writing and prompting strategies. Students will also examine common pitfalls in AI-assisted writing, learn how to diagnose generic analysis or style, and develop techniques to ensure AI functions as a tool for refinement rather than a (limited) substitute for original thinking.
Wellness: Student Wellness and Gen AI
This session will allow students to use the wellness wheel as a framework for exploring the influence of AI on the different dimensions of health (mental, physical, social, intellectual, etc.). Students will think critically about how reliance on AI tools can create an imbalance in these dimensions and will develop strategies for deciding how to maintain balance: when to use AI for support and when to ask for human support.
Land Acknowledgment
The Country Day School wishes to recognize and acknowledge the land on which the school operates. Our nearest Indigenous Nations are now the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Chippewas of Georgina Island. The Dish with One Spoon Wampum covenant is often cited as an example of the shared responsibility for caring for these lands among the Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples who would call these their traditional territories. CDS respects the relationship with these lands and recognizes that our connection to this land can be strengthened by our continued relationship with all First Nations, by acknowledging our shared responsibility to respect and care for the land and waters for future generations.
School Information
Junior, Middle and Senior Schools
13415 Dufferin Street, King, Ontario L7B 1K5
(905) 833-1220
communications@cds.on.ca
admissions@cds.on.ca
Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.
13415 Dufferin Street, King, Ontario L7B 1K5
(905) 833-1220
communications@cds.on.ca
admissions@cds.on.ca
Founded in 1972, The Country Day School is a co-educational private school offering programs in JK-12 and located on 100 acres north of Toronto in King.
