To help students navigate the rise of generative AI effectively, Beaver has created a new resource: the BVR AI Menu. This tool places students in the driver’s seat, helping them explore how they can use AI in different ways throughout their learning experience. Created in collaboration with both students and faculty, the menu will continue to guide conversations at Beaver around when and how AI can be leveraged.
This menu is a step toward a deeper understanding of what AI can and cannot do well; it helps us assert our commitment to student-centered pedagogy and human-centered learning, empowering students to know how and when to use it to support and augment their learning.
Kader Adjout, Director of Teaching, Learning, and Innovation
Why we designed the BVR AI Menu:
Promote AI literacy and responsible use:
Recognize the biases, hallucinations, privacy concerns, and environmental implications of AI and prioritize fair and ethical use so that our students know how to use AI responsibly, critically, and ethically. It also helps set the boundaries of academic integrity.
Create shared language and understanding:
Designed with students in mind, this menu offers students and faculty a common framework to discuss how AI can effectively support learning. It addresses the questions and concerns of our students and faculty around the use of AI, shifting the conversation from “if students can use AI” to “how well they can use it.”
Move from AI to IA:
This is a guide that will outline when and how students can use AI as support, partner, and collaborator to leverage the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to become Intelligence Augmentation (IA) and enhance student learning. A tool to support their thinking, not replace it.
Foster student agency:
Understand that, even though AI can help learning, student agency and voice are more important and must remain at the center of their experience. Each aspect of the menu highlights the active role of our students as agents in their learning experience, rather than passive recipients of generative AI results.
We have to learn how to use AI as a tool and not let it replace our independent thinking. Beaver is doing a great job at helping us with that.
Sammy Wasserman '26