Lit & Tech

If there ever was a post that belonged perfectly on this blog, it is this one about Brisk Boost for Reading.  You may know the Chrome Extension Brisk as a great way to give feedback, create materials, or inspect a text to authenticate it. (It also works with Microsoft Edge now too.) If you don't have the Brisk extension I highly recommend it for all those reasons.  This post though, is about Brisk Boost. It's the option with the red backpack 🎒when you click the Brisk icon on a doc or website.  What Brisk Boost Does for Reading Starting with a reading on a Google Doc or a website, Brisk Boost creates learning objectives about that reading. You can edit these learning objectives and even delete a few if it feels like too much. Then you create the boost and share the link with students. When students click the link, they get the reading material, and an interactive chat that will guide them toward the learning objectives with questions that adapt to the learner. The teach...