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Artificial Intelligence has introduced innovations not only in teaching but also in learning, which educators all around the world have already witnessed. Unfortunately, a number of students consider AI as a tool complete the part of a job to be done by the students themselves and widely employ it to write essays, papers, and reports.

How do your schools deal with AI in terms of academic integrity? Have you made any rules and regulations or chenged you school policy? What instruments and tools to you use to detect AI-generated content? How do you persuade students to avoid misuse of AI?

Hello, dear colleagues!
It seems that my previous post was not saved? so I'll try again:)

My name is Ekaterina, I'm from Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia, I teach English and als coordinate eassessment and Personal Project in Private IB school. What I makes me a fan of my job is the opportunity to explore the language together with my students and inspire them to start new inquiries.

In my free time I go to the gym, do gardening (a bit!) and read books.
Happy to join the community!

Dear colleagues, thank you for sharing!

I would like to add that in our school we also encourage our students to start greening initiatives, as part of their community service or as part of their subject units. For example, in my English language lessons the students had a summative assessment task of promoting a green campaign within the school through social media. They came up with the ideas of effective use of resources, saving paper, saving water etc which also boosted the students' motivation and led to a deeper unquiry and understanding.

@Bilim said in The skills taught in current educational systems do not match with labor market.:

In every step we need to be mindful of 4P: Product made by Professionals that is Progressive and available to Public.

Dear Bilim, I will definitely use this 4P quote, thank you that is such a concise idea! We are lucky to teach in this challenging, rapidly changing transitive period which demands adapting ourselves and being ready to keep up with new requirements of time. Unfortunately our national educational standards which are declared to be progressive prove to be not flexible enough. For example, in language teaching and assessment (especially in language exams) there is a strong accent on language knowledge (grammar and vocabulary) while language skills assesment in all their variety as described on CEFR leaves much to be desired. The assesment criteria descriptors only consider a limited range of skills.

Dear Bryan,

This is do generous and kind of you to share these resources, also useful to start this topic. I can't share any so far, unfortunately. I'm planning to explore these ones. Thank you very much for new prospects!

Well, I use plenty of game resources since I do love games and my students are always enthusiastic about them. I mostly apply gamification tools to practice grammar and vocabulary. Here is my list (which is not exhaustive):
wordwall.net
baamboozle.com
learningapps.com
wheeldecide.com
online-stopwatch.com
superteacherworksheets.com/generator-word-scramble.html
https://www.visualthesaurus.com/bee/play
https://bingobaker.com/
https://www.edu-games.org/word-games/crosswords/communicative-crossword.php
https://quizizz.com/
https://quizlet.com/ (Game mode - Classic live)
Tic tac boom app
different random generators, e.g. https://www.rangen.co.uk/chars/jobgen.php

These are the ones I use regularly there are also others I come across from time to time and also build them into my teaching routine.

I've also tried https://www.classcraft.com/ru/ but not as successfully as I'd like to, feel that I have to explore it better.

As we regularly do in our school, I will hold a workshop with my colleagues to share the teaching insights I will gain. I'll try to plan it so that my co-teachers take part as students to experience new strategies as learners and drawing conclusions independently in the end. This kind of practice proves to be more effecive allowing to explore more

As for specific goals and objectives, I'm mostly concerned with boosting my students' motivation recently, so this is something I globally set for myself

@Ana_moderator thank you fo sharing!
I will definitely incorporate the resourse into my English-language lessons!

@Antonia Kahoot is really invaluable resource! We also practised giving the students the task of creating their own quizzes in Kahoot, and this always was a hit, especially when the quizzes were to be done later by the classmates. Game + choice + autonomy boosts students' motivation.

@Ana_moderator Thank you for sharing! Now , I remember that I used the google VR app to see wild animals some time ago. We played with my primary students some games using it.

@BRYANb8875625e5 Thank you for your detailed answer! Our school followssimilar strategies which you listed. As we are an International Baccalaureate school, we've been provided with the revised Academic Integrity Policy from IB. We also use particular software (unfortunately, Turnitin is not accessible to us now) to detect plagiarism especiallyin essays and works to be uploaded for external assessment. As an English teacher myself I encourage my students to use AI for initial research and quote it in their works. My colleague who teaches high school students usually easily recognises the works generated by AI since they are radically different from the students' own ones in style.

@Nenad-Stojacic Hello, Nenad!
As I read your post I thought of this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t08CLczdK4
You might have seen it but in case you haven't I hope it will be relevant for your lessons:)

You raising a crucial issue here, thank you! Could you share your practical experience of incorporating global competence in your lessons? what objectives and aims do you set when planning them?

@Vanny Thank you for raising this issue here.

As I'm a teacher of English, I'd certainly start with introducing relevant vocablary on each of the goals to provide my students with the language for the discussion. An article or a short video are always good for presenting those. I'd also set a number of questions for research to encourage learners' independent inquiry. Then, a debate or an article or a blog post would conclude students' work. No doubt, such an ambitiuos goal requires very thoughtful planning!

Dear colleagues, thank you for your versatile and thoughtful approaches to bullying.

I'm happy to work at school and in the environment where any kind bullying is never turned the blind eye on. Our stakeholders and administration immediately react to any bullying situation, listen to the opinions of all sides, consult school psychologists, meet the parents involved and suspend a bully or exclude them from the school. Bullying is also being constantly prevented by collaborative work of teachers, psychologists and administration. Regular talks are given in the classes to educate the students about different kinds of bullying and possible consequences. All these efforts result in decreasing the number of such situations.

@BRYANb8875625e5
Hi, Brian!
I really appreciate your idea of attracting experts, particularly by students, that would make their contributions to learning more valuable and also boost their learning autonomy.

Thank you!

@Denis-Kudaymetov Absolutely! We have recently faced the problem when some of the students submit essays/reports or other documents inappropriately in terms of margins, fonts, organising paragraphs, titles and pages. They are unable to perform simple operations to edit the document according to the requirements. So we decided to focus on these next year.
On the other hand, digital children and teenagers often offer creative ideas for summative and formative assessment tasks to combine educational content and technologies, which makes the tasks more relatable to them.

Hello, Marija!

I haven't been teaching teaching pre-school learners for quite a while so I don't feel competent enough in the issue balanced use of digital didactic games. Still, personally, I used them as fillers at the lessson between the activities or as coolers in the end of the lesson (in which case I chose only quiet reading activities).
https://www.starfall.com/h/index-kindergarten.php?mg= - this resource was always a hit among the kids I taught.

@Ana_moderator I absolutely agree, Anastaciia, that buddy system works well. In our school it may look as far from the system but still in our special group chat we regularly share the resource and tools with the colleagues. We also share our findings at our regular collaborative meetings and the colleagues willingly try them and start applying those they find suitable.

I would also add that keeping your mind open to new technologies depends on nuruturing encouraging and supportive spirit within the teaching team. That is, if teachers do not compete with their colleagues but seek for collaboration they are always ready to leatn something new from each other.