AI proof Assessment: Leveraging shoulder-to-shoulder student-teacher conversations for a more Human Approach

In an AI-changed world, authentic student voice needs to win.

Chicago Summer Stories

Students capture, show and tell their unique stories.

Student choice of their voice and artifacts to tell their story

The Why: with some examples of...

1. Showcase your learning: You put a lot of intentionality into your work and it's important for it to be documented and shared properly... by the students who are impacted most, in their voice.
2. Making Grading Fun Again: You'll be surprised, encouraged, and sometimes brought to tears by what you will hear.
3. Parents Share: every parent loves seeing and hearing their child share their learning. It encourages and empowers both groups, which directly improves your class and school community.

Background Context:

After iterating over 5k times with students on the Personal Reflection process I found a new, simpler process during Chicago Summer Stories (with both Middle School and High School students) that was so easy that I needed to share it.

Capturing video while having a student conversation provides a more human approach to assessment. Using an iPad or iPhone camera the teacher captures the work as they ask about their process.

This is what it looks like at Chicago Summer Stories

The Process:

1. Open the Camera App and turn the device horizontally and hit record
2. Stay within arms distance from the student to capture strong audio
3. Have the student introduce the project, "Can you describe what project/lab/assignment we're working on here?"
4. Focus follow up questions on "What you did and What you learned"
5. Airdrop the video to the student
6. In iMovie or Final Cut Pro students edit their responses, cutting out the teacher prompts and cleaning up the "ands & ums" to make it sound clean.
7. Add project/process pictures and video to "show" rather than just tell the story
8. Export your final video and share it

Reps, Reps, Reps: To make this your own you just have to do it and iterate to find the best way to authentically capture your student's work.

The only way to find your voice, and your students is by trying it and "failing quickly"

Prompts to ask:

• Use leading prompts like "Describe, Explain, How did you..., Help me understand why"
• Have the students re-phrase the question in their answer to help them with editing ie. "The work began with..."

More wins:

1. AI Proof: there is nothing more authentic than a student sharing their own story about their unique process to their specific audience- you can't cheat that and...
2. Student Engagement: Students will value the process as much as the product
3. Your Evaluation process just got a lot easier too- demonstrating authentic learning in a variety of Domains.
4. Your Board wants good news: Your Superintendent always wants good news to share and you'll be the humble hero sharing the dynamic learning happening in your classroom.

Call to Action- What are you going to do?

Go do it!