04/09/2026
Teachers are being told to get children writing more. But who is supposed to mark it all?
Welcome to our first Table Topics — very professionally filmed in our dining room, otherwise known as the howay.ai office.
There’s a real movement back towards pen, paper and extended pieces of writing, and howay.ai is completely behind it.
Children need opportunities to think, write, edit and develop ideas in their own words — not have AI do the learning for them.
But more writing has traditionally meant more marking, longer evenings and another hit to teacher workload and wellbeing.
That’s the part we want technology to help with.
Teachers create the assignment and set the success criteria. Students complete their work by hand and upload a photo. howay.ai then marks it against the teacher’s criteria, provides individual feedback and produces a clear report showing what the whole class needs next.
The children still write. The teacher still decides what good looks like. The marking pile simply takes far less of everyone’s time.
And for the new academic term, Term 1 of howay.ai is completely free. No card and no catch.
Comment TERM1 and we’ll send you the code 💙
