Re: [school-discuss] English teacher apps

[ian <ian.lynch@zmsl.com>]

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:28, robin wrote:
> Dennis Daniels wrote:
> > Hello Quentin
> > I use style and diction daily. I've been looking at how to set regex 
> > into the search params of diction to make sure students don't end a 
> > sentence with prepositions, for example.
> > 
> > Style needs a better reporting scheme too... some kind of app/ script 
> > that can take all of a students papers and process their style reports 
> > into a database for better growth tracking.
> > 
> > OS education tools need to make jobs easier for teachers in order to get 
> > more pull in the district office board room discussions. I don't know if 
> > you saw that the State of Indiana is now using an electronic essay 
> > grading system... OS could / should cobble something that does half of 
> > that App and make it available to teachers... /dream
> 
> I don't like the idea of electronic grading. Sure, the website claims 
> that the software always comes within a few points of human markers, but 
> I suspect that is more a reflection on the humans than the software. If 
> such a system comes into widespread use, students will quickly learn to 
> write to the software and produce high-scoring drivel.

Quite possibly. There are many things that teachers still do better than
computers. A computer might be a good replacement for a bad teacher, but
it is rarely even close to a good one.

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ian <ian.lynch@zmsl.com>