In development
Dictation
Say it, and it’s written.
How do you teach?
Some students know the answer but can’t type or write it fast enough to show it. Dictation, in development, lets students speak their answer and see it appear as text.
Your student can explain the answer out loud but freezes when asked to type it. They’ll speak, and their answer will appear as text on the board.
In an online class, slow typists fall behind on written answers. They’ll speak their answers and see them appear as text.
Participants who think faster than they type will speak their ideas and see them appear as text on the board.
Young students and students with writing difficulties can say more than they can write. On their devices, they’ll speak and see their words as text.
Participants on laptops will speak their responses and see them appear as text, instead of typing everything.
If your child struggles with writing, they’ll speak their answer and watch it appear as text, so writing isn’t the barrier.
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What it solves
- Hard to write math, code or text on screen
Helps you
Teach better
Part of
Young learners
The problem
Writing gets in the way of knowing
For young students, students with writing difficulties and slow typists, putting answers into words on the screen is the hardest part. What they know gets lost.
The usual way
Teachers scribe for students, accept short answers or move to oral questions outside the board.
How Pencil Spaces solves it
Dictation, in development: speech to text from the AI menu on the text toolbar, so students can answer by speaking.
What changes
Writing is never the barrier to showing what students know.
What it looks like
In practice
A student speaks her explanation of photosynthesis. It appears as text on the board, and her teacher sees she understood more than she could have typed.
In a 1:1 lesson
Your student speaks his essay outline instead of typing it. You both edit the text that appears.
In a group class
A student who rarely types more than a sentence dictates a full paragraph answer.
In a virtual training
A participant dictates his action plan, then edits the text on the board.
In your classroom
A second grader speaks her story on her Chromebook, and it appears as text she can illustrate.
In the training room
Participants dictate their reflections at the end of the day, and the text lands on the board.
At home
Your son tells his story out loud and watches it appear on his board as text.
