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Our school's new grading bot gave a student a zero for a perfect essay.
It happened last Tuesday. The system flagged a 9th grader's paper on 'To Kill a Mockingbird' for 'unoriginal content' because it used a common quote from the book. I had to manually override it, which took 45 minutes of paperwork. It's supposed to save us time, but it just created more work fixing its mistakes. This is the third error this month. Has anyone else in education had to constantly babysit these 'efficiency' tools?
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xena_bailey1816d ago
Ugh, is there anything more frustrating than tech that makes your job harder? We had a similar thing with an attendance bot that marked kids absent if they were just a few seconds late to homeroom. I spent more time each morning clearing false flags than I would have just taking roll the old way. It feels like these tools are built by people who have never set foot in a classroom. They see a simple task and try to automate it without understanding the actual work. Now we're just doing our regular job plus managing a glitchy robot assistant.
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alicecraig16d ago
Exactly, it's like they solve a problem that doesn't exist and create three new ones. The worst part is when admin sees the shiny new system and thinks it's saving time, so they won't go back. You're stuck proving the tech is broken while still being expected to use it. It just adds this whole extra layer of pointless work and stress to an already packed day.
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