Case 9 – Interactive Writing and Accessibility Features

Available Term 3, 2020

Feedback is critical when learning to write. With multiple levels of learning in a class, it is really difficult for teachers to keep up with the volume and variance of feedback required.

Once students develop a habit, it can be hard to break. GPS ( Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling) assistants help out emerging writers possibly a bit too much. There is a midpoint in Scribo between Cold Writing and GPS assisted writing and we call it Scriblet.

The whole process of writing improvement starts with getting students to practice more. The more practice the more feedback required from teachers. The younger the writer, the more encouragement needed. It starts to become a Catch-22 unless there is a circuit breaker. Scriblet is designed to run alongside emerging writers and help to correct basic errors of writing, as they happen – sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph.

OUTCOME

The intent of Scriblet is to keep students writing, with simple and effective feedback delivered to the writer and their teacher without any human intervention. Accessibility features in Scribo now voice read the feedback back to students in any native language they choose. The whole Scriblet process is open and can be used as a semi-cold writing assessment or a simple place for students to practice. Either way, teachers have a complete breakdown of where more feedback and instruction is needed.

The immersive reader handles text read-back with syllable emphasis, word cards and multilingual translations.

Making sure students understand the feedback being given is critical. This feedback can be replayed in over 20 foreign languages if required.