A Teacher Built an AI Grading Assistant—Then Removed Its Most Automated Feature to Keep Humans in Charge
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A teacher returns from two days of chaperoning field trips to find 450 ungraded assignments. Rather than simply marking them credit/no credit (which would miss student misunderstandings), they build an AI grading assistant. The article explores the tension between AI efficiency and maintaining teacher oversight, culminating in the decision to remove the most automated feature that could return an A grade without human review. The piece argues for keeping teachers in charge when AI handles grading.
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· 4 pulledTwo school days. That's all it took.
But if any of them were practicing it wrong, nobody catches it, nobody tells them, and the misunderstanding rides along into the next unit.
That pile of work led me to build an AI grading assistant.
And this past April, I removed its most automated feature: the one that could return an A
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