Kudos: Graduate student invents Google add-on to help kids with proofreading

A few years ago, Kalianne Neumann’s middle-schoolers were eagerly using Google’s tools to share and critique their class writings. But rather than offer comments on sentence structure or paragraph organization, the students were getting bogged down in the little things, like capitalization and punctuation.

Neumann, a Ph.D. student in the learning, design and technology program, thought there had to be a way to differentiate types of feedback. So, she invented a way to fix that.