AI Markers: A Smarter Way to Give Feedback

Ann Stark:

Well, this year, GoReact has added a new feature to the video. When you’re setting up your GoReact assignment for the new teacher, they have a new feature where you can turn on the AI marker. And so the AI marker, if you choose to use it, it takes the video and it does a few things. It will provide you a full transcript, which is just interesting. And then it also, depending on what markers you select, will point out and comment on, say for example, student engagement or listening techniques, or I’m not thinking of all the markers right now, but it will provide areas for growth as well as praise for the teacher. And so the AI marker will come up with an area for growth in a certain area, and I’ll be like, oh, interesting. Maybe I didn’t even think of that on my own.

So then the AI marker helps me to be like, that’s an excellent idea. We could try that. If instead of just responding good job when a student answered a question, if you repeated their answer, that’s just reinforcing it and maybe the students who hadn’t heard it will hear it again or whatever it might be. So I can then add on my own comments to the AI comments. So my comments have gotten a lot more in detail since I’ve had AI as a partner in providing feedback. And if I don’t like the AI comment, I can just remove it so I don’t have to keep ’em. Sometimes I’m like, eh, it doesn’t apply to us, and we can just get rid of that before we even review it. So it’s been like having a mentor partner in reviewing the video. So I do like the AI feature. It’s not perfect yet. It’s not a human replacement, it’s just one other piece of data to look at when I’m doing my observations. So I do like it, but it’s just one component.