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Elizabeth Hutchinson's avatar

Thanks, Mike. I think this will be a very valuable tool for school librarians working with students. I will be sharing at my next training session on Tuesday.

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Anna Mills's avatar

Thanks, this is very exciting! I've just been playing around with it, and I can see how valuable this might be for my students, but there's some inconsistency in whether it really follows the Toulmin structure. (These bots are squirrely things!) I wonder if you'd be willing to share the prompt or any tips on the prompt? I would love to play around with it further, maybe on PlayLab.ai where I have some bots. It would be great to collaborate on iterations of this...I'd love to do a version that goes with some of the ancillary materials for my textbook, but my textbook teaches the Toulmin method in slightly different way (I talk about assumptions, not warrants, and don't teach backing as it seems too similar to evidence--and other adaptations I developed after years of correcting students on vocabulary).

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