Smart Paper by EdOptimize

Paper is Smart - Digitize, grade, and analyze handwritten work in seconds with our simple app. Trusted by teachers in grading over 100 million mcq worksheets

[Ulrich Boser @ulrichboser]

AI can solve math problems—but can it understand student mistakes?

New research shows vision-language models struggle to interpret handwritten errors, especially from students who need the most support.

Read more: https://t.co/FbG7Lq48kC

#AIinEducation #EdTech #LearningScience

[OECD Education @OECDEduSkills]

More than a third of teachers already use AI for their work.

Is this a good thing?

The new Digital Education Outlook highlights the latest research which shows GenAI tools like ChatGPT can have some benefits.

Read here:
https://t.co/ttmFRQBlfo

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Paper & Oral Assessments are popular again

Smart Paper is all about supporting authentic assessments in the digital age!

[Alex Dimakis @AlexGDimakis]

My final exam is today in Berkeley. Pen and paper, in person, all the students try to solve challenging problems. No machines. This ancient method of evaluating students is going to survive in the AI era.

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skills, i.e. the use of a pen or pencil, had the strongest association with academic and cognitive skills. (3/3)

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Why Focus on Handwriting is Important in the Digital Age

A recent research published in Educational Research Review underscored the continued importance of handwriting for developing academic and cognitive skills. This meta-study analyzed 118 other research papers and (1/3)

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found a significant and moderate relationship between fine motor skills and a range of academic and cognitive abilities. Handwriting is called Graph Motor Skill, which is a subclass of Fine Motor Skills. The study found that among various fine motor skills, graph motor (2/3)

[Natalie Wexler @natwexler]

Yes, reading whole books matters, and no, there are no "miracles" in education.

But there can be dramatic progress if instruction aligns with cognitive science--or maybe even if kids just read whole books.

More in my latest post:

https://t.co/of8wq88WWL

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All students deserve teachers who can recommend them unlimited awesome books to read!

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With digital media overflowing, there is now a gradual movement towards regaining the balance between digital and analog learning!

[Justin Baeder, PhD @eduleadership]

Hawthorn College students have voted to ban all wireless technology on campus—ditching phones and laptops in favor of pen, paper, and personal interaction. What do you think? #education #highered ##edtech##parenting#c#college

[Knowledge Matters @KnowledgeMatrs]

You can’t think deeply about what you haven’t been taught.

🎯Spot on, @dylanwiliam.

Read more: https://t.co/gtUgmqKG9Y

#KnowledgeMatters

[SoL in the Wild @SoLInTheWild]

My students aren’t just listening during explicit instruction—they’re always thinking. How do I know this? I know because they remember, understand, and connect ideas. If they weren’t thinking, none of it would stick. Strong explicit teaching is intentionally engineered thinking.

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That's a lot of handwriting!

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

I was back home for Thanksgiving and my mom had me go through old stuff. This is a tiny fraction of a fraction of 3 yrs of public school work and it’s all handwritten. I came across a 9th-grade English exam that was 7-10 handwritten pages of answers. How much less do kids do now?

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modality where the question paper is the same for all candidates, which is typically more acceptable to the public, even though they are not informed of the statistics behind score equating in computer based tests. (5/5)

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Parliamentary Panel recommends National Testing Agency to go from Computer Based Tests to Paper Based Tests for National Exams

A parliamentary panel in India recently provided its recommendations to the National Testing Agency (NTA) that conducts exams like JEE, NEET, and (1/5)

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were utilized for these large exams, the item bank was big for the entire exam, and led to 12 questions being withdrawn from the exam due to answer key errors. In the common exam, there are rarely such cases, or sometimes 1 question. Paper based exams offer an equitable (4/5)

[Ulrich Boser @ulrichboser]

🚀 In Rajasthan, India, Smart Paper AI graded 10,000+ handwritten exams from 2,500 students across 55 schools.

The result? Instant feedback for learners, saved time for teachers, & new insights into student thinking.

Learn more → https://t.co/QMHItob4rv

#AIinEducation #EdTech

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🇮🇳 Indian Tech Update ‣ Oct 18 2025 🚨

Jodhpur’s district administration has, for the first time, used AI to evaluate students’ exam answers, cutting result times to two minutes, powered by @smartpaperai, founded by Nirmal Patel (@nirmalpatel_) and Derek Lomas (@cognotron).

[EdOptimize @edoptimize]

EdOptimize is creating AI to grade written exam papers! @smartpaperai Most recently, in Jodhpur, 10,000+ written exam papers from 3000+ grades 6-8 students were graded with our AI app, teachers loved it!