My relationship with AI in education has been a stormy one- I started off with lots of suspicion towards ChatGPT (I wrote about it here), then I got enthusiastic about it thanks to Twee (more in this post), now it is time to deal with its academic integrity repercussions, as I was informed of a student using ChatGPT to write a whole essay for them. Luckily for them, it was not part of internal or external assessment, just homework. Yet, it definitely was a breach of both school and IBO Academic Integrity Policy(to be found here ), as well as policy on using AI (linked Here ), and as such, required urgent attention and action. As this was the first case of such misconduct, DP1, and not coursework, the student was not reported to the IB, only penalized according to our school rules, which is an F, a letter to the parents, and lowered grade for behaviour. What also had to happen was a talk to the whole cohort during homeroom where this issue was...