By Aviv Weiss
Recently, my colleague Sarah Robertson introduced the Khan Academy literacy team’s latest release, Khanmigo AI Writing Coach for Teachers, to administrators in Khan Academy District Partnerships in New Hampshire. This blog post provides key takeaways from Sarah’s presentation. You can access the full recording here.
Khanmigo Writing Coach: The latest in Khanmigo writing tools
For the last 18 months, Khanmigo AI Writing Coach has been evolving to provide the best possible student experience. This evolution continues with the introduction of the Writing Coach as a teacher tool. The mainstay of this progression has been ensuring students receive consistent feedback throughout their writing process.
The teacher view
Khanmigo AI Writing Coach aims to tackle a significant challenge for ELA teachers: providing ongoing support and frequent feedback to encourage more writing from their students. Constraints such as time limitations and class sizes often hinder the teachers’ ability to give guidance and feedback as much as they’d like to.
An English teacher’s dilemma
Here’s a likely scenario that illustrates the problem we’re solving (Sarah captured this problem on our blog last fall): A ninth-grade English teacher assigns a two-page essay to 100 students. If she allocates 10 minutes per essay for detailed feedback on every draft, it would take her nearly 17 hours just to go through the first drafts!
And here’s another problem: Even if this teacher spends 17 hours on those first drafts, it’s really hard to actually spot strengths and weaknesses in the students’ writing process. Additionally, teachers now need to carefully check draft histories too to uphold academic integrity.
Introducing the Solution
Understanding this dilemma led us to build Khanmigo AI Writing Coach and better support both teachers and their students throughout the writing process. With this technology, teachers can now ensure that students get more writing practice, more immediate support, and more feedback – without the burnot.. Writing Coach also surfaces class-level insights and lets teachers dig deeper into detailed reports for each student.
Inside the teacher dashboard
The Khanmigo AI Writing Coach starts with a dashboard view, which displays each student’s overall progress, their time spent crafting the essay, word count and revision data, and originality flags indicating potential violations of academic integrity, which teachers can click into to review. This easy-to-navigate dashboard allows teachers to identify things like which parts of the writing process students may need more instruction in, and which students need additional one-on-one support.
Zooming in on student progress
Our tool allows teachers to get in-depth insights into their students’ writing process. Teachers can now track how their students develop ideas, structure arguments, and revise their writing based on feedback.
Unprecedented visibility
Khanmigo AI Writing Coach brings a new dimension to teaching. Not only does it save teachers precious time, but it also helps them understand how students are progressing in their writing. Now, teachers can regularly offer feedback in order to identify and address their students’ needs more effectively.
Learn more about bringing Writing Coach to your teachers and students.
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By Aviv Weiss Recently, my colleague Sarah Robertson introduced the Khan Academy literacy team’s latest release, Khanmigo AI Writing Coach for Teachers, to administrators in Khan Academy District Partnerships in New Hampshire. This blog post provides key takeaways from Sarah’s presentation. You can access the full recording here. Khanmigo Writing Coach: The latest in Khanmigo
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