The teachers on the FB page I frequent - AI Tools for Teachers - have been raving about the benefits of Brisk, the AI teaching assistant. Hence, I made it a point to install the Chrome extension on my laptop.
There was a bit of a learning curve involved with Brisk. I finally figured out that I had to paste my writing onto a Google Docs document. Then, I asked it to “Give Feedback”.
What I appreciated most about it that various writing rubrics were already embedded within the tool. I liked the opportunity to familiarise myself with the writing criteria used in the U.S. context.
Within a jiffy, it offered me feedback in 3 categories: Glow, Grow and Wondering. I see that the power of three is leveraged effectively here because the human mind seems attuned to internalising 3 main things. I particularly liked how it highlighted one of my sentences to suggest that it could be broken down into two sentences for enhanced flow and clarity.
I really need to invest some effort into strengthening my transitions. All these Gen AI tools point out this weakness in my writing!
All in all, these feedback tools have the potential to alleviate teachers’ workload. I can imagine a teacher pasting his students’ work on Brisk and generating feedback on their writing. Thus lies a problem that might exacerbate in the future. We may never know exactly the extent to which a teacher’s comments on our child’s work is authentic. Maybe he or she has outsourced the marking to an AI tool. Then again, since I’m a teacher myself, the temptation to use such tools is real lol.
