AI Tool Demo: Handling Teaching’s Tough Tasks With Brisk
This popular browser extension addresses two teacher needs—quickly generating customized sub plans and tracking the evolution of student writing assignments.
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Go to My Saved Content.Ever wish you had a tool that allowed you to rewind and watch exactly how a student arrived at a particular thought or paragraph in their writing assignment? Every keystroke, moment of hesitation, or deletion. And when you wake up too sick to teach, what if that same tool could help build you a comprehensive skeleton for sub plans? In this short demo, instructional technology specialist Gabriel Carrillo shows how a popular browser extension, Brisk Teaching, can help you accomplish both tasks.
When a user opens Brisk Teaching’s premium Inspect Writing feature on a student’s Google Doc, the tool generates a video playback of all actions taken inside of the document—revealing a deeper look into the student’s thinking and writing process, and perhaps even helping to detect unusual copy-paste activity that might signal AI use. Users can watch sentences appear and disappear, paragraphs get reorganized, and ideas take shape in real time.
Brisk Teaching’s Sub Plan Generator, on the other hand, can transform a simple prompt or existing lesson plans into a full set of instructions for a substitute teacher. Users input important details like their learning objectives, classroom norms, school procedures, and the focus of the current unit. The platform then creates a new editable document with all necessary information and leaves fill-in-the-blank slots where additional context is needed. Carrillo likes to add helpful classroom management notes to his initial prompt—for example, “My class can be chatty, so have them take their notes in their journal. Be sure to walk around and ensure that students are on task.”
Brisk Teaching also offers tools that generate individualized student feedback, create instructional materials, and translate text into over 40 different languages.
Interested in learning about other AI tools to try, but have no clue where to start? Check out edtech specialist Eric Curts’ article for Edutopia, “5 Teacher-Tested AI Tools for Beginners.” There’s also educational technology director Alana Winnick’s article, “A 4-Step Framework for Exploring AI on Your Own Terms,” if you’re AI-curious and want a bit of guidance.