SCRIBLE: Teaching Research/Writing and Managing Papers/Projects During the Pandemic

In the spring COVID chaos, many teachers and librarians abandoned their plans to have students work on authentic papers and projects.

It was hard to manage the research and writing process remotely because it historically involved in-person check-ins with students. Normally, teachers and librarians met with students face-to-face to review and provide feedback on their research (e.g. articles, annotations, citations) and writing (e.g. outlines, drafts, bibliographies). COVID school shutdowns made that hard or impossible. This school year should be different! Scrible centralizes all student research and writing work online and makes it available to teachers and librarians from anywhere. They can access student work remotely to assess it and provide feedback asynchronously, eliminating the need for face-to-face meetings. Scrible, the most advanced research/writing platform ever built, lets students curate, annotate, manage and collaborate on articles online. It supports writing with citation capture, bibliography and outline editors and Google Docs and Microsoft Word integration. Students use powerful tools to scaffold and organize their work. Teachers and librarians use novel analytics to support personalized learning for the vital research and writing skills students need for college success.

Research and writing was already one of the hardest things teachers, librarians and students did...

Over 50% of secondary students struggle with research and aren't ready for college writing. Scrible helps close that gap and mitigates COVID exacerbating it.

See our related videos: Demo and Teacher Testimonial:

Background & COVID Mitigation:

Come learn about Scrible from its Cofounder/CEO, Victor Karkar.

You’ll also hear Rebecca Scott, Librarian at Downers Grove North High School in Downers Grove, Illinois, describe how Scrible transformed research and writing at her district and continues to help during the pandemic.

The Utah State Board of Education (USBE) is providing Scrible Edu Pro, a comprehensive research and writing platform, to all Utah K-12 schools via a statewide contract.

USBE and Scrible hosted a training webinar on Thursday, October 8, 2020, to help you get started with and make the most of this new resource. The webinar recording and accompanying slides are posted at the bottom of the Scrible Utah webpage here: https://www.scrible.com/utah

Scrible Office Hour I is Thursday, October 29, 2020 from 3:30-4:30 pm MT

Get help and answers to your questions, ideally after you've tried using Scrible yourself.

Register here for this upcoming Scrible Office Hour session.

Presenters

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Victor Karkar is Cofounder and CEO of Scrible, an ed tech firm tackling the massive research and writing skills crisis among America’s students. He started Scrible to address his own frustrations working with online information in school. Victor has presented on the challenges and best practices of the research and writing process at state and national education events hosted by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL), the IL Association of Teachers of English (IATE), The League for Innovation in the Community College and other organizations. Prior to Scrible, Victor’s background in innovation spanned the Internet and biotech worlds in project management, product management and business development roles. He holds a Bachelors in Biology from Brown University and a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.

With over two decades of experience in librarianship, Rebecca Scott has worked in all types of libraries most recently high school and community college. Having held a variety of positions including instructional librarian, adjunct faculty, and department chair she embraces innovation and envisions possibilities for students with a focus on research and inquiry. She has been a leader in her district developing professional learning opportunities for teachers to support blended and remote learning while in her academic role, she teaches courses for those seeking librarian licensure and training.