GotTechED the Podcast    

Episode 151: Using AI to Assess Student Writing

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 151 called “Using AI to Assess Student Writing”. In this episode, we’ll unpack one of the most valuable things that AI can do for a teacher - providing feedback on student writing.  As you all know this is a very time intensive task that can be made faster and BETTER with the help of some new AI tools. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out!

Segment 1: Updates

Updates

1. 12 Days of edtech coming back for year 3
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3. Recent videos on Text Blaze and Using Canva’s Whiteboard to Replace Jamboard 
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1. Annotate ＆ Edit
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3. Annotate and edit the video after recording

Segment 2: 

Some of these resources are from a presentation by Peter C Paccone from the San Marino Unified School District Tech Academy.  Thanks Peter!

1. Class Companion: Instant & personalized AI feedback for written assignments.  Give your students an engaging way to practice at their own pace, make mistakes, learn from them, and be motivated to improve.  Gives feedback based on custom rubrics that you create !!!       
2. Revision Assistant by TurnItIn:  Instant feedback to student writers
3. Grammarly AI
4. Write with Transformer:  This site, built by the Hugging Face team, lets you write a whole document directly from your browser, and you can trigger the Transformer anywhere using the Tab key. It's like having a smart machine that completes your thoughts
5. Eli Review: Step 1 : Assign your learners a task, Step 2 : Guide and give feedback, Step 3 : Debrief and process feedback, Step 4 : Plan revision, Step 5 : Analyze and iterate
6. Magicschool.ai:  Text Rewriter Tool and Student Work Feedback Tool         
7. GotFeedback from GotLearning  
8. Text Blaze    
9. Brisk Extension:  Brisk Teaching is a free AI Chrome extension that integrates directly with your tools like Google Docs, Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, and more. You can use it on any webpage to change its reading level or use it in Google Docs to write curriculum, generate feedback, or detect student use of AI.
10. Honorable Mentions from prior episodes:  Grammarly, Quillbot (AI paraphrasing tool), WordTune (like Grammarly), Hemingway Editor.  

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