I. GETTING A PROBLEM ESSAY READY
1.1 I copied the following Writing Task from the Teacher's dashboard:
"You are the host of 'Teen Chat', a YouTube channel that explores a wide range of topics from a teenage perspective. Write an article for Teen Magazine about why you started this channel and what you have learned in the process."
1.2 I went to POE Assistant, and asked it to generate a problem in response to the Writing Task.
My first prompt: "You're an ESL teacher in a secondary school. You're to create a response to the following Writing task topic. However, your response should be a problem essay which contains several spelling errors, grammar errors, choice-of-word errors, and illogical sentences. You will use the problem essay for providing your students with practice in improving an essay. Please provide a 150-word problem essay.
Below is the Writing topic. Please create a 150-word problem essay in response to the Writing topic. ...
1.3 I settled for one problem essay generated after asking POE Assistant for a few revisions (to include more errors):
"I started the YouTube channel "Teen Chat" because I wanted to talk about issues teens face, like school stress and friendships. At first, I thought it be easy to just record my thoughts. However, I quickly seen that making videos is actually very hard.
One big problem is that I didn’t knew how to reach my audience. Many teens don’t likes to watch long videos, so I tried to make them shorter, but then I lost some important informations. Also, I’ve learn that not everyone agree with my opinions, which sometimes lead to mean comments and hurted feelings.
Editing the videos are also a struggle for me, which take a lots of time. I often forget to add musics or graphics, and it makes the video boring. Sometimes, I feel like giving up, but I know I can’t. In conclusion, while starting "Teen Chat" was a good idea, it also come with many challenges that I didn’t expect at first. I hope to keep improving and make it more better for all teen."
2. Trying out the problem essay from Student's Lingotask app (mobile phone or tablet; not sure if laptops also work).
2.1 I logged into the Student's Lingotask app using a dummy student account.
2.2 I located the original Writing Task, and started to respond. From the Student's dashboard, there are 3 ways to respond: (a) type out an essay, (b) take a picture of a written essay, and (c) upload an essay file from the Student's app.
In my case, I chose (b). The Student app then started to import the photo taken into a digital text. But I am not whether it would still work if I had handwritten the essay.
3. Working through the feedback from the platform: Error Correction
3.1 The first response I got from the platform was my submitted highlighted with grammar errors. This page was interactive and I was asked to correct those errors. After each attempt, the platform would show me how my attempted correction compared with the platform's AI suggestion. I could choose the AI suggested correction, or stick to my own. After making a decision, I could work on the next error correction, and so on.
Next error
4. First attempt to check out the remaining 3 types of feedback
After trying out a couple of error corrections, I wanted to check out what the other 3 types of feedback were like. But when I clicked on them, they all said that I first had to finish 50% of the error correction first.
So I returned to the error correction and completed the remaining corrections.
5. Checking out the other 3 types of feedback again
Below are extracts from each type of feedback:
5.1 Refining the Writing
And so on ....
5.2 AI FEEDBACK
This part provides higher-level feedback (ie, not just how to refine individual sentences). It is divided into (a) Content, (b) Language, and (c) Organisation.
Below are extracts from the 3 areas of feedback:
5.2.1 Content
5.2.2 Language
5.2.3 Organisation
3.2.4 Overall Comments
5.3 'Model Essay'
The third type of feedback is a 'model essay':
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OVERALL OBSERVATIONS
- Overall, the platform does provide detailed and useful feedback to support students' writing development.
- The next consideration is how teachers may guide students to make use of the feedback.
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