FAQs

TalkTrees Playground

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FAQs

TalkTrees Playground

Playbooks

Foster productive classroom conversations.
Enhance learning.

Foster productive classroom conversations.
Enhance learning.

Foster productive classroom conversations.
Enhance learning.

TalkTrees is AI-powered celebrations of student discourse in your classroom.

TalkTrees is AI-powered celebrations of student discourse in your classroom.

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Teacher discussing Talk Trees with students
Teacher discussing Talk Trees with students
Teacher discussing Talk Trees with students

What is TalkTrees?

TalkTrees helps promote quality student talk

TalkTrees helps promote quality student talk

TalkTrees is a free AI-powered tool that visualizes students' high-quality discourse in the form of a tree with flowers that celebrate different forms of student discourse (red flower = providing evidence, blue = making a claim, yellow = relating to another student).

Educators use TalkTrees in their classrooms to facilitate reflective discussions with their students about how they are talking and building knowledge together. TalkTrees shifts the role of students from passive participants to active agents in shaping the nature of classroom discourse.

Why it matters

High-quality student talk is intentional

Why it matters

High-quality student talk is intentional

Why it matters

High-quality student talk is intentional

Research-backed

Research-backed

TalkTrees is grounded in the research-backed framework of Academically Productive Talk which promotes rigorous conversations, increased engagement, and student learning.

TalkTrees is grounded in the research-backed framework of Academically Productive Talk which promotes rigorous conversations, increased engagement, and student learning.

Co-designed

TalkTrees is co-designed with educators and students to promote their shared accountability for high-quality mathematics classroom conversations that result in learning gains.

Co-designed

TalkTrees is co-designed with educators and students to promote their shared accountability for high-quality mathematics classroom conversations that result in learning gains.

Student-centered

TalkTrees helps students recognize their own role and agency in improving classroom discourse while aggregating data to prioritize student privacy.

Student-centered

TalkTrees helps students recognize their own role and agency in improving classroom discourse while aggregating data to prioritize student privacy.

Visualize student talk in three easy steps

Visualize student talk in three easy steps

Making a Talk Tree in the Playground is a great starting point.

The TalkTrees application goes further by analyzing classroom recordings, in three simple steps:

The TalkTrees application goes further by analyzing classroom recordings, in three simple steps:

Record a classroom discussion

Record a classroom discussion

Use any device with a built-in microphone (phone, tablet, or laptop) to record a lesson from your class.

Use any device with a built-in microphone (phone, tablet, or laptop) to record a lesson from your class.

Upload it to TalkTrees

Upload it to TalkTrees

Upload your recording to the TalkTrees app to make a tree and see your student talk made visible.

Upload your recording to the TalkTrees app to make a tree and see your student talk made visible.

Have a conversation with your students

Have a conversation with your students

Use built-in conversational scaffolds to share Talk Trees it with your students and invite them to reflect on their class conversations.

Use built-in conversational scaffolds to share Talk Trees it with your students and invite them to reflect on their class conversations.

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Request Early Access to the TalkTrees App

Request Early Access to the TalkTrees App

Testimonials

What Teachers Are Saying

Testimonials

What Teachers Are Saying

Testimonials

What Teachers Are Saying

"Students felt a lot more compelled to have discussions building on one another."

Teacher, 4th Grade Math, Reading, and Writing

"A student was like, I wonder what our Talk Trees are going to look like if we start talking more, start participating more…"

Teacher, 7th Grade Math

"Students liked that Talk Trees were connected to what they were saying or doing in the classroom."

Teacher, 7th Grade Math

"Students take a lot more ownership of their learning rather than it being on the teacher."

Teacher, 1st Grade All Subjects

Try TalkTrees

In the TalkTrees Playground, you make a Talk Tree by answering a few questions—no AI, just reflection. It’s an easy way to explore classroom talk and get a feel for what students may already be doing. When you’re ready, you can also use the TalkTrees application to analyze a classroom recording.

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