Equity Summit 2020

Teaching Research and Writing and Managing Papers/Projects During the Pandemic

2020-10-09 from 08:00 to 09:45

In the spring COVID chaos, many teachers abandoned their plans to have students work on authentic papers and projects. It was hard to manage the research and writing process remotely because it historically involved check-ins with students during class time. Normally, teachers met with students face-to-face to review and provide feedback on their research (e.g. articles, annotations, citations) and writing (e.g. outlines, drafts, bibliographies). COVID school shutdowns made that hard or impossible.

This fall can and should be different! Scrible centralizes all student research and writing work online and makes it available to teachers from anywhere. They can access student work remotely to assess it and provide feedback asynchronously within Scrible, eliminating the need for in-person check-ins and feedback.

Scrible, the most advanced research/writing platform ever built, lets students curate, annotate, manage and collaborate on articles online. It supports writing with citation capture, bibliography and outline editors and Google Docs and Microsoft Word integration. Students use powerful tools to scaffold and organize their work. Teachers use novel analytics to support personalized learning for the vital research and writing skills students need for college success.

Research and writing was already one of the hardest things teachers and students did... Over 50% of secondary students struggle with research and aren't ready for college writing. Scrible helps close that gap and mitigates COVID exacerbating it. See our related videos.