How to check AI-generated lessons for errors

The trick is to read like a skeptic, not like a proofreader. A proofreader checks whether it sounds right. A skeptic checks whether it is right. The six checks below are in the order that catches the most with the least effort.

1. Facts

Hold each claim up against your source, not against your memory. Look hardest at anything that sounds crisp and absolute: "always", "never", "the only", a date, a name, a count.

• Overgeneralisation: "Plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen" is true but incomplete; plants also respire. Decide whether the simplification is acceptable for your grade.
• Plausible inventions: a quote, a date or a name that is not in your handout. If it is not in your source, check it before you keep it.

2. Numbers and units

Redo every calculation by hand. Check that units are stated and consistent: grams against kilograms, centimetres against metres, per second against per minute. A worked example with a slipped decimal is worse than none, because students copy the method.

3. The answer key

This is the check with the highest return. In the pack's Assessment Items, cover the ticked answer, solve the question yourself, then look. Also scan for these:

• Two options that are both defensible.
• No option that is fully correct.
• An answer that is correct only if you accept an assumption the stem never states.

4. Distractors

Each wrong option should be something a student might actually think. Ask of every distractor: who picks this, and why? If the honest answer is "nobody", it is padding and the question is easier than it looks. The distractor guide has examples. Also check the opposite problem: a distractor so close to right that a strong student gets marked wrong.

The correct option should not be the longest one every time. Students learn that pattern quickly, and it tells them nothing about the content.

5. Reading level

A skill pack has explanations at beginner, intermediate and advanced depth. Read the one your weakest reader will meet. Look for long sentences, abstract nouns, and vocabulary you have not taught. In a maths item, check that the wording is not harder than the maths. Read aloud, since a sentence you stumble over will stop a ten-year-old.

6. Bias and fit

• Names, jobs and settings in the examples: do they lean on stereotypes?
• History and social studies: is a contested event presented as settled, or told from one side only?
• Examples that assume experiences your students may not share, such as a family car trip or a pet.

A fast pass when time is short

1. Solve every question yourself before reading the key.
2. Read only the intermediate explanation, checking each number and each "always".
3. Look at every picture.
4. Skim the misconception list for anything you would not say yourself.

That takes a few minutes per pack and catches most of what matters.

What to do when you find something

• In the review queue, press ✗ Reject on a pack that is wrong enough to leave out, or ✓ Publish if the problems are small and you will address them in class.
• If a picture is wrong, press Remove picture under it.
• You can change the order of packs with Reorder Skill Packs, then ✓ Save Order.

The pack screen has no edit box, and the Publish and Reject buttons are shown only on packs waiting for review. If you find an error in a pack that was published automatically, tell your students which question to skip, and let us know. The wider routine is in how to review AI-generated content.

Diagrams, equations saved as images and handwriting do not survive extraction from your files, so look for places where a lesson refers to a figure that was lost.

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