Ohana Prep's Approach to AI
Artificial intelligence is changing how students learn, write, and solve problems. At Ohana Prep, we teach students to use it with judgment, as a tool for deeper learning, not a shortcut around it. Teachers set clear expectations per assignment, whether AI is a research partner, a drafting aid, or off-limits, so students build real judgment, not habits.
Study How It Works
Students learn how machine learning systems are built, where they fail, and what responsible development looks like in practice.
Use It with Disclosure
Clear, assignment-level expectations teach transparency rather than suspicion, guiding students to document how and why they used AI.
Defend the Thinking
Students present and defend projects in person to teachers and professionals, proving their understanding cannot be outsourced.
Empowering critical thinking and original thought while using AI responsibly
Our approach is deliberate: teachers introduce a skill, students practice it together and independently, and only then does AI enter the process. Students learn to question, verify, and explain its output while protecting academic integrity, original thought, and authentic voice. Assessments make sure every student demonstrates their own knowledge and growth.
Supported by Kaplan's academic resources and our small, advisory-style classes, this approach keeps each student's thinking at the center while preparing them to use AI thoughtfully and ethically in college and beyond.
The course behind the policy
Every student takes Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, a required elective that moves past the hype to how AI systems learn, think, and create, and sets the transparency and authorship rules students follow in every other class.
In every classroom
Each assignment says where AI belongs. Students document any help they used, and they present and defend their work in person, so what they know is always their own.
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