What if every reflection experience in your class perfectly fit the learner, the activity, and your objective?
How much more could you learn about student progress? Most importantly, how much more could students learn about themselves?
Today, we’re introducing new capabilities that make Mirror reflections perfect for any learning scenario or need. This is a massive leap towards fully-customized reflections for you and your students.
These updates include automatic alignment between reflection prompts and goals, an easier way to share feedback, and custom response time for reflections.
Customizing reflection with goals
With this release, we’re building on customization of the reflective prompts through our Goal feature. When you set up a reflection, you can apply a focus like depth of thinking, motivation, mindfulness and more – these options contextualize the questions to the selected framework and randomize the questions so the reflection always feels fresh for the student.
Now, every time you record a goal, Mirror’s AI will further tailor the prompts to that stated goal. And for the most precision, the questions can still be edited by you, so you can always ensure your students are getting the best possible context that helps them align their thinking to your lesson.
By customizing students’ reflections with focus, goals, and workspaces, Mirror enables autonomous small group learning thereby granting you invaluable time to work with students who need more support.
And coming soon, you’ll gain further autonomy for small groups when we roll out guided steps for lessons in our workspace.
Sharing feedback with students
We’ve heard from our earliest Mirror users that the reflection feedback loop Mirror’s AI is creating should be readily available to share with students and stakeholders to keep everyone on the same page about how students are reflecting and how well they understand your stated learning objectives. That’s why we’ve made it easier for you to share reflection feedback with students, admins, or parents directly from the Dashboard.
Feedback generated by Mirror’s AI is always subjective to your judgment and you’re always in the driver’s seat when it comes to deciding what and how much to share. Each feedback card contains an overall reflection quality summary, insights from the key metrics in the Reflection Dashboard such as Goal ability, Sentiment, Evidence of Thinking, and Growth Mindset, and a link to watch the student’s reflection recording.
Customizing response time
Want to apply some pressure to elicit higher-order responses during reflection? Or maybe you’re trying to teach your students to express themselves more succinctly, without getting too lost in the weeds? Now you can customize student response time as you’re setting up a reflection, our new default is 15 seconds – down from 30 seconds, which our current demo users told us was just too long.
As we continue to develop Mirror, its conversational abilities will seem more natural and we don’t think a time limit will be necessary; in the meantime, we hope this small improvement helps you and students complete reflections more productively.
Next for Mirror
Until now, customizing the reflection experience for every learning scenario and need was simply too time-consuming. That’s why we’re so excited to see how you unlock reflection’s potential in your classroom with these new updates.
What’s next? Use your Mirror’s customization features to set up student reflections for success.
Then, tag @ Swivl on X to tell us how it went.
Don’t have Mirror yet? See below.
The Mirror demo program
If you want to experience the power of automating reflections firsthand, sign up for the Mirror demo program. This free trial is open to all educators based in the United States and Canada.