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19th December 2024

Listening, learning, and LLMs; our 2024 highlights!

A big grant, meeting with hundreds of teachers, and loads of feature releases in Frankenstories. 2024 did not disappoint!

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15th October 2024

IT'S ALIVE! Freaky Scary Frankenstories vol. 1

We've released an ebook of freaky & scary Frankenstories from classes across the world, to inspire student writing.

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30th August 2024

Teaching tool designed to make AI irrelevant wins AI grant from MIT Solve

Frankenstories wins MIT Solve Learner//Meets//Future AI-Enabled Assessments Challenge

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30th August 2024

We won an MIT Solve AI grant for our most anti-AI product

Here's how we hope to use AI to do good things instead of bad things.

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17th July 2024

7 NEW Frankenstories features

Chris, our developer, has been cooking for weeks and now we have a bunch of new features.

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10th July 2024

Episode VI: Andrew returns to the classroom

Andrew is back in a high school classroom teaching suspense and argumentation writing units.

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20th June 2024

🎉 We have three new Writelike lessons on writing historical description

Teach students the fundamentals of describing history with our new lessons about art & technology, historical figures, and historical events.

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6th June 2024

What about violence in student writing?

Instead of completely eradicating violence, we can look at developing a broader palette of 'change' in student writing.

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10th May 2024

What to do about the Skibidi Sigma Ohio Rizzler?

It's agony whenever we see a great Frankenstories game derailed in the final moments by someone spamming the meme of the day. Teachable moment, anyone?

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10th April 2024

Going further with fragmentary details

By valuing fragments and so reducing the cognitive load on learners, you can build up underlying craft skills like selecting and combining compelling details.

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