Video transcript - AI for English Teachers: Instant Feedback on Handwritten Writing
What if I told you that your learners could get detailed, personalised feedback on their writing… in under two minutes… right there in the classroom?
No piles of marking. No waiting until next week. No “I’ll look at it later.”
Let me show you something that works brilliantly because what you might not know is that AI can read handwriting and it’s pretty good at it.
So, your learners have done a piece of handwritten writing in class. Maybe it’s a paragraph, maybe it’s a longer task.
Instead of collecting it in and disappearing under a mountain of marking, try this.
Ask them to take a photo of their work on their phones.
Then, they upload that image into ChatGPT and the magic starts.
You can give them very simple, very clear prompts, like:
Please underline all the mistakes in this text but don’t correct them.
They can then work together in pairs maybe to try to correct those mistakes together.
Now go a step further and ask:
Please give me a line-by-line correction of this writing.
With that, they can check if their corrections were right.
And what if AI makes a mistake? Of course, that’s possible, but you’re there in the room with them, so they can ask questions as you monitor.
A final really useful prompt is this one:
What are the main things this learner needs to work on?
And within seconds, they’ve got feedback.
So then let’s carry on because feedback only matters if learners
So next, you can ask them to write a corrected version of their text or even ask ChatGPT for practice activities based on their mistakes.
This gives you a full learning cycle:
Noticing → understanding → practising → improving.
And It’s totally personalised and differentiated. Each learner is working on their mistakes, not a random worksheet that may or may not be relevant.
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