Reinventing feedback in schools with Axelle Lhermitte (Logbook)

Can AI Reduce Inequality in Education?

AI can help reduce inequality in education by giving students more personalized feedback, helping teachers identify individual needs, and making high-quality support easier to deliver at scale.

Educational inequality starts with unequal support

A student’s social environment can have a major influence on their academic outcomes. For Axelle Lhermitte, co-founder of Logbook, tackling this inequality became a central motivation for building in education.

Her experience working on school dropout prevention showed her both the scale of the problem and the potential for technology to help teachers better support students who are struggling.

Personalized feedback can help students progress

Feedback is one of the most important parts of learning, but traditional written corrections are not always effective.

Teachers can spend hours correcting assignments, while students often focus primarily on the grade and pay little attention to the comments intended to help them improve.

Logbook approaches this differently. Teachers record personalized audio feedback for students, making corrections more detailed, understandable and personal.

AI can help teachers personalize education

In Logbook’s model, AI does not replace the teacher or generate the initial feedback.

Instead, it analyzes and structures the teacher’s own comments. This can help identify students’ strengths and areas for improvement, track progress across assessments and give teachers a clearer picture of individual needs.

The goal is to help teachers provide more personalized support without losing the human relationship at the center of education.

Voice can make feedback more accessible

Audio allows teachers to communicate more information and nuance than short written annotations.

It can also create what some teachers using Logbook describe as a form of “pedagogical intimacy”: students hear their teacher speaking directly to them and explaining how they can improve.

According to Axelle, students using Logbook sometimes listen to their feedback more than once, suggesting that audio can encourage greater engagement with corrections.

*Episode sponsored by Gaz Européen