Step 5 - The delivery

Scribo delivers opportunities for all students to improve their level of English writing, while saving teachers time in grading and correction tasks.

How does Scribo help?

Scribo disrupts the traditional writing process by handing ownership and control of English writing improvement to students. Teachers have more time to be the critic and mentor.

In this context, AI is the Additional Instructor every teacher wants.

"No-one magically gets good at writing. Every writer needs critics, mentors and teachers and the more punishing they are, the better writer you become." Ernst Hemingway

Getting the 'job done' needs some disruption and tweaking

Just getting the text written is 'the job' most students will tell you they stress about. Knowing how to improve, where to improve and if indeed you are getting better, has always been the job of the teacher.

This is where teacher workloads multiply by a factor. Not only must teachers correct and grade, they then must plan where and how to improve individual and cohort writing outcomes. The obvious endpoint to this discovery is to then deliver student-level improvement.

That's a lot of work for teachers, in fact way too much work. The way in which English writing learning is set up actually encourages students to sub-contract learning outcomes to their teachers. Teachers simply run out of time to help everyone with tailored support and so the story repeats in the next year of school. We continually see teachers putting more effort into writing than many of their students do. This reality is a road to burnout for teachers and a road to flame out for students who enter higher education and the workforce without the core written literacy skills they need.

Ultimately, success is measured by improvements in English writing skills becoming repeatable

'Fixing' writing takes hours and hours (years even) of attention, way more time than a quick edit session in front of a GPS (Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling) system. The world has had GPS systems for a long time, while writing skills in education decline globally. It seems that students blindly take tactical GPS advice but don't remember it for next time.

The acronym GPS extends to cars with the same conclusion. Most drivers now have a GPS. The GPS does not improve driving skills but rather creates reactive drivers, tuned to respond to all of Siri's commands. People set off not knowing where they are going, when they get there they don't know where they are and when they come back, they don't know where they have been.