Project Demo
Brian A. OliverSmith, CEO
Urban Planet Mobile
Biography
Brian OliverSmith leads the world in mobile education. As a committed social entrepreneur who believes education is a human right, he champions using mobile to provide access to quality educational programs with the power to change lives, communities, nations, and the world.
Abstract
Writing Planet recognizes writing fluency depends on practice with personalized feedback, allowing students to correct their mistakes and build their skill set and knowledge base. Teachers often lack the time to assign and assess sufficient writing. Additionally, because writing is inter-disciplinary teachers may not possess the requisite skills to assess and help improve students’ writing.
Writing Planet is the only comprehensive writing program with built-in writing assessment and scoring rubrics available to both the native and non-native English speaking student population institutionally and to end user consumer.
Through pedagogically-focused tutorials, interactive exercises, and immediate assessment with pertinent feedback from the automated essay assessment technology upon which the program is built (Project Essay Gradetm1), Writing Planet provides students with guided practice and the resources to improve their writing skills and knowledge.
The video tutorials develop listening and reading comprehension as well as skills acquisition, making for a robust learning environment. The program incorporates a teacher-driven class portfolio providing real-time data on individual students and the class as a whole. Writing Planet is simple to deploy, working with and for teachers immediately.
Additionally, a consumer facing model is available for students (parents of students) to purchase an end user license. For motivated students, it is an affordable tutorial system with virtual mentoring that flattens access to quality instruction.
Learn more at www.writingplanet.net