May 2026 - Tecnocentres

Today, I would like to introduce an application that I helped create in its early stages. It has been a while since I was last able to lend a hand, but I have followed the initiative closely, and I believe it is interesting to share, as it can be useful for many secondary schools.

In Catalonia, spanning between the first and second years of Batxillerat (upper secondary education), there is a subject called Treball de Recerca (Research Project). As the name suggests, all students must carry out a research project, usually in small groups. Through this, students learn how to pose hypotheses, search for reliable sources, cite them correctly, conduct fieldwork to confirm or dismiss the hypothesis, draw conclusions, and so on.

This application, TRapp, helps to manage the complete tracking of all these research projects within a school (students, tutors, evidence, assessment, reports, etc.).

It can also be useful for schools outside of Catalonia that carry out research projects with students in a structured manner regarding time and format. However, for the time being, it is only available in Catalan, though being open-source software, anyone can translate it.

There’s no doubt in my mind that artificial intelligence is a godsend for teachers. If you’ve taken the time to learn a bit about how it works, which is nothing magical, its limitations, errors, and biases, as well as the ethics of its use, you already have a solid foundation for using it critically and effectively. If, on top of that, you’ve spent a few hours interacting with it and have training in pedagogy and curriculum design (which, if you’re a teacher, you should have), it becomes a fantastic tool to help you (yes, I said help you, not do the work for you) set learning objectives, define assessment criteria, and plan activities. It will also be very useful for creating resources, scaffolding, and assessment tools, as well as for making adaptations for students with diverse characteristics or functional diversity.

But when we talk about students’ use of it, things change. There’s a lot that could be said, but in this article I’d like to focus on just one specific point: homework.

Month: May 2026

TRapp: An Application to Track a School’s Research Projects

Welcome to AI. Now what do we do about homework?