Intellectual Property
This doctrine allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission for "transformative" purposes like teaching or criticism.
What is Fair Use?
This is the practice of sending fraudulent emails that look legitimate to trick users into revealing passwords.
What is Phishing?
This federal law protects the privacy of student education records and limits who can access them.
What is FERPA?
This is the specific set of instructions or text you provide to an AI to generate a desired response.
What is a prompt?
The use of digital communication tools to repeatedly harass, threaten, or intimidate another person.
What is Cyberbullying?
True or False: A teacher typically owns the copyright to a worksheet they created during school hours using school resources.
What is false?
Instead of a simple password, experts recommend this longer string of words that is easier for humans to remember but harder for bots to crack.
What is a Passphrase?
This law requires websites and online services to obtain parental consent before collecting data from children under age 13.
What is COPPA?
This term describes when an AI confidently provides information that is completely fabricated or factually incorrect.
What is a hallucination?
This is the permanent trail of every post, search, and click an individual makes online.
What is a Digital Footprint?
When a work’s copyright expires, it enters this "space," meaning it is free for anyone to use or remix.
What is the Public Domain?
This security layer requires a password plus a secondary method, like a text code or app notification, to log in.
What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?
This acronym (PII) refers to any information that can be used on its own or with other data to identify a specific student.
What is Personally Identifiable Information?
These software tools attempt to identify if a student's essay was written by a machine, though they are often prone to false positives.
What are AI Detectors?
The informal "code of conduct" for respectful and professional communication in online spaces.
What is Netiquette?
These specific licenses (like CC-BY) allow creators to keep their copyright while giving the public permission to share or use their work under certain conditions.
What is Creative Commons?
A type of malicious software that encrypts a school’s files and demands a fee to unlock them.
What is Ransomware?
When using a "free" app that doesn't have a district-signed contract, this is usually what is actually being "sold" to the company.
What is Student Data?
This occurs when AI models produce unfair or skewed outcomes because the data they were trained on contained human prejudices.
What is algorithmic bias?
The ability to analyze, evaluate, and identify "deepfakes," misinformation, or biased reporting in the digital age.
What is Media Literacy?
This is the legal term for a new work that is based on or derived from one or more already existing copyrighted works.
What is a Derivative Work?
The act of manipulating people into performing actions or divulging confidential info, often through psychological trickery.
What is Social Engineering?
This is the legally required process of informing families if student data is accidentally leaked or stolen by hackers.
What is a Data Breach Notification?
This type of AI doesn't just analyze data; it creates entirely new content like text, images, or music.
What is Generative AI?
The legal concept that individuals should have the right to request the removal of their personal data from search engine results.
What is the Right to be Forgotten?