Why You Should Check That Your Kids Can Write AI Process Journals
What is an AI Process Journal?
An AI Process Journal is a single document (word, pdf, etc.) that learners submit to their teachers or instructors when they use one or more AI tools (including LLMs, coding agents, image generators, or other AI tools) to complete or generate an assignment or deliverable (including a research paper, essay, visual presentation, visual/art project, coding assignment, etc.). The AI Process Journal should always be submitted alongside with the original assignment or deliverable.
Try out Kigumi’s AI Process Journal for free for 2 months (unlimited number of assignments) when you sign up for one of our products before 31 December 2025:
All products available in Eng, Chinese, Thai and other languages available upon request.
What is the point of an AI Process Journal?
AI Process Journals benefit your child’s academic and professional goals in both the short- and long-term, by:
teaching your child how to become a responsible AI-user who has the judgment and nuance to make balanced AI decisions for the long-term
acting as a quality control process for potential plagiarism and other issues, helping your child to catch potential mistakes or inaccuracies early, before submitting assignments
gives credit to your child for their ability to use AI responsibly, by being a “tracker” that demonstrates maturity and the level of effort your child put into an assignment.
What age is right for an AI Process Journal?
AI Process Journals are not strictly tied to grade levels, but rather to your child’s maturity and access to AI tools at school and at home. If your child is a heavy or automatic user of AI but you’re not confident if they have the training or maturity to avoid plaigairism or AI-overuse (intentionally or unintentionally), consider talking to their teacher about implementing AI Process Journals for them and all students in their class.
Our Kigumi AI Process Journal is made for secondary school students (middle school and up) through tertiary level (university).
Where can I find an AI Process Journal?
Many dedicated teachers in high-resource schools already have made their own AI Process Journals for the students and grades they serve. If your school has a digital literacy lead, instructional tech coach, or class teacher who is a pro-AI adopter, ask them first if they use AI Process Journals already.
What we find is that:
Asking your school to customise your own template can be the best option if you have a low student:teacher ratio in your secondary school, if your school has a clearly communicated and consistent AI use policy and rubric (or you have one for your own classroom) and if your teachers already have the confidence and literacy to create and adapt the AI use policy and rubric into specific academic areas.
Using a pre-built template can be the best option if you want to avoid potential cases of academic dishonesty or AI-misuse, provide personalised suggestions for your child based on their particular level of AI-literacy, and free up teacher time for more personalised instruction.
Think about the quality of the rubric and research that the AI Process Journal template is based on. If your school is creating your own template, make sure the rubric or learning progression they’re basing it off of is something credible. Kigumi’s AI Process Journal and teacher dashboard are based on our AI Quotient Framework for AI literacy, developed with academic advisors in computer science, linguistics and AI ethics from the University of Chicago, UC Berkeley, and other institutions.
Try out Kigumi’s AI Process Journal for free for 2 months (unlimited number of assignments) when you sign up for one of our products before 31 December 2025:
All products available in Eng, Chinese, Thai and other languages available upon request.
