The Idea Foundation presented the Infogrund Teacher of the Year Award at a ceremony held at the Godot Gallery. Izabella Dávidné Békés , a teacher at the Miklós Zrínyi High School in District X, received the 2025 InfoGrund Teacher of the Year Award. Having participated in the InfoGrund teacher training program in 2023, she has since been consistently teaching the subject of critical media literacy and creatively developing her students’ information filtering skills and critical thinking at school.

This year, we also presented a Special Award, which was received by Éva Molnár, a teacher at the Zichy Mihály Vocational High School of Applied Arts, Technical School, and Boarding School in Kaposvár. With this recognition, we honored the teacher’s media education philosophy—specifically, her approach to fostering self-reflection in students’ media use.

The awards ceremony was transformed into a workshop for teachers, with the topic: Children, Teachers, and AI: Teachers’ Dilemmas and Solutions

“I don’t envy AI’s confidence.” “The world is moving forward with artificial intelligence, not backward”—this was the attitude participants expressed toward artificial intelligence in the game that kicked off the workshop. We first used answers to thought-provoking questions to reveal the participants’ thoughts, feelings, and experiences regarding AI.

After a lively exchange of views, participants had the opportunity to discuss their experiences with the educational use of artificial intelligence and the dilemmas associated with it, as well as to deepen their knowledge of AI-related topics. They engaged in roundtable discussions with expert guests in three smaller groups, covering topics such as deepfakes and the educational applications of artificial intelligence.

Social psychologist Péter Krekó (Political Capital), for example, discussed the cognitive biases that deepfake content specifically exploits, as well as why and how deepfakes reshape our perception of reality.

Participants had the opportunity to discuss with media education expert Bori Timár (Idea Foundation) how to recognize AI hallucinations, how to turn a hallucination into a “teaching moment,” and how to respond to it effectively for educational purposes. Or, for example, how AI can be used to enhance, rather than replace, human thinking.

In the third round, the teachers discussed students’ use of artificial intelligence based on questions posed by Izabella Dávidné Békés. Topics included, for example, how they handle situations where a student has clearly used artificial intelligence to complete homework, or what they think about their own role in teaching students how to use artificial intelligence.

It was great to meet, talk, and brainstorm together! There will be an award next year as well; we look forward to receiving teachers’ applications starting in May.