For grown-ups
SixDrafts is about revision. A learner picks one real thing to make (a paragraph, a description, instructions, a short poem) and makes it six times. Between drafts, a partner adds one note, starting from a set opening like “I notice…” or “I wonder…”.
At the end the six drafts sit side by side, so the change is easy to see.
Where the idea comes from
SixDrafts follows Austin’s Butterfly, a lesson from Ron Berger and EL Education: a first grader in Boise, Idaho, drew a butterfly six times, with kind, specific, helpful feedback from classmates between drafts. His sixth looked like a scientist drew it. Berger’s three norms for feedback are the same ones the partner notes use: be kind, be specific, be helpful. EL Education shares the lesson and the video on its resource page.
The writing stays on this device and can be cleared with one button. Nothing is uploaded.
What it never does
- No accounts, no ads, no tracking — anything kept stays on this device.
- No streaks, timers to beat, points to chase or leaderboards.
- No chat, and nothing anyone types is sent anywhere.