Make CER Writing a Game!

HOW many times have you provided feedback for a student to help them improve their CER or lab conclusion writing, and then been disappointed when the student didn’t implement your feedback in their next assignment? If I had a nickel…..

Have you logged in to Magic School yet? It’s a fantastic versatile AI program that is adaptable for school use. Here’s how I used AI to help my students make writing their CER a game – and got significantly better results.

First, create an account on Magic School. The basic level is free and has tons of resources.

Then, select “Launch to Students.” This creates a “room” that you can populate with any of the AI tools you want students to use.

Add the tools that you want your students to use. For my CER feedback activity, I used “Writing Feedback” tool.

You can customize the tool after you’ve added it to your room. I added specific directions for the assignment and uploaded the rubric that students would be scored against.

Once I created the room, I shared it with students and they copied/pasted their CER first drafts into the bot.

The Writing Feedback tool provides students with very detailed feedback including areas of strength and specific suggestions for improvement.

Students could ask the tool to score their writing against the rubric. And this is where it became a game. Challenge your students to keep revising and improving their writing until Magic School says it would receive a perfect score on the rubric. My students were utterly hooked – they wrote and rewrote and edited and re-edited exhaustively.

In the end, their CER writing was the best I’ve seen this year. Even better, they were more confident about their writing.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

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