NET Scheme News 2023 Summer issue 44

Teachers and researchers shared their contest experiences and research findings respectively, at the Regional Cluster Meeting (Hong Kong) on ‘The Role of AI-Writing Tools in Developing Students’ Writing Skills’, which took place at Fukien Secondary School (Siu Sai Wan) on 20 April 2023. In addition, participants practised coding their own AI-writing tool and discussed the opportunities and challenges of implementing AI-writing tools in their English lessons. David Woo, NET, Precious Blood Secondary School, and April Fung, English Panel Chair, Hoi Ping Chamber of Commerce Secondary School, Ho Man Tin If your school would like to learn more about the Human-AI Creative Writing Contest, please contact David Woo at net_david@pbss.hk At Lok Sin Tong Wong Chung Ming Secondary School, English teachers Pavel Wong and Damien Chan observed that their students could successfully participate in an English medium-of-instruction workshop on coding and successfully code an AI-writing tool without using translation to Chinese language. The English teachers also observed students’ amazement and curiosity when coding, with some students showing a keen interest in coding. In debugging the Python language of their AI-writing tools, students learned to pay careful attention to spelling, punctuation and capital letters. Students could transfer these debugging skills and apply them to their English language texts. 5 NET Scheme News Issue 44