Writelike

What do high school students think about AI and learning to write? Brett Vogelsinger is an English teacher at Central Bucks High School South in Pennsylvania with over two decades of experience teaching in middle and high school. He recently sat down with his students to talk about their writing and how AI interacts with it, and they had a few thoughts: https://lnkd.in/g6JhxUWT

It was only February when we were celebrating 10 million words 🤯 Now our Frankenfam have written over 20 MILLION words of narrative stories, persuasive speeches, Shakespearean texts, and had all sorts of writing fun with Frankenstories 💚 Our Hall of Fame is overflowing with fun, real class writing from across the world if you want to check it out: https://lnkd.in/gguTNkSe #frankenstories #englishteacher #writinggame #classroomfun #teachingwriting #writingpractice #collaborativewriting #edtech

Josh Eyler's new book "Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students and What We Can Do About It" is a shot across the bow of traditional systems of schooling. He answered some of my questions about his book and the future of alternative grading as a route to improve student learning. https://lnkd.in/gniiB_9n

We are honoured to be a winner of the Learner//Meets//Future AI-Enabled Assessments Challenge with the support of MIT Solve and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation! 🎉 In many ways Frankenstories is the complete opposite of an AI product, collaborative writing with peers being at the heart of it. We want to use AI to show trends in quality, clarity, and collaboration, so teachers can figure out the best way to use Frankenstories in their class. We're looking forward to making the most of this win and the support it brings.

We had a wonderful time meeting so many great English teachers, academics & literacy folks at the AATE/ALEA 2024 conference in Adelaide this past week! Lots of big topics, but some highlights included: 🚀 Learning how teachers are designing assessments with #GenerativeAI in mind. ✍️ Seeing research into the benefits and challenges of using creative writing in the high school English classroom. 🧑🏫 Listening to author & teacher John Marsden share his personal insights on what it really means to teach writing well. Andrew Duval had fun running an interactive #Frankenstories workshop and being turned into social media fodder by his team 👀 Perhaps selfishly though, we really enjoyed all the teachers that came up to us and said, “We use Frankenstories and our class loves it!”. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us 💚

We had a wonderful time meeting so many great English teachers, academics & literacy folks at the AATE/ALEA 2024 conference in Adelaide this past week! Lots of big topics, but some highlights included: 🚀 Learning how teachers are designing assessments with #GenerativeAI in mind. ✍️ Seeing research into the benefits and challenges of using creative writing in the high school English classroom. 🧑🏫 Listening to author & teacher John Marsden share his personal insights on what it really means to teach writing well. Andrew Duval had fun running an interactive #Frankenstories workshop and being turned into social media fodder by his team 👀 Perhaps selfishly though, we really enjoyed all the teachers that came up to us and said, “We use Frankenstories and our class loves it!”. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us 💚

We're at the #DoingSchoolDifferently conference in Brisbane today. Come say hello if you're around! 👋

We're excited to announce we're a finalist in MIT Solve's Learner//Meets//Future: AI-Enabled Assessments Challenge 🎉 Our solution - we want to use foundation LLMs to provide continuous formative feedback in short-form writing on Writelike & Frankenstories, but it's still harder than it sounds. You can check out our submission here: https://lnkd.in/g3k9bfw3 #AI #assessment #writelike #frankenstories

"It’s possible that #digitaltutors work great, except that what they work at is not something we actually want students to do." Engaged Education's John Warner takes a closer look at #AITutors and their 'infinite patience'.

"There’s something I need to get off my chest. There is no such thing as the “science of writing.” There isn’t such a thing as the “science of reading” either..." Engaged Education's John Warner discusses what's behind the popular 'science of' phrase in education. What's your take? 🔬🧪✍️