Never paste student names into a chatbot

Pasting a named student's work, report comment, or behaviour note into a consumer chatbot sends personal data about a child to a third party, often outside your school's data agreements entirely. UNICEF's policy guidance on AI for children (UNICEF, 2021) puts data protection and privacy among its core requirements for AI that touches children, and that applies to teacher workflows, not just ed-tech products.

In practice

• Anonymise before pasting: initials at most, no class lists, no dates of birth, no photos of work with names visible.
• Report comments: draft with "Student A" placeholders, personalise afterwards in your own document.
• Prefer school-approved tools with a data agreement when work needs to be processed at scale; consumer chatbots are for anonymous fragments.
• If your school has no AI data policy yet, this tip is the interim policy.