Teaching editing and grammar componants with grammar check

Potter, Reva and Dorothy Fuller. "My New Teaching Partner? Using the Grammar Checker in Writing Instruction." English Journal. 98.1 (Sept. 2008): 36-41. Web.

For another class we read a great article about a teacher who used grammar check to get students interested in editing. Sounds crazy, doesn't it?
First, they had the students type papers with grammar check off. Then they had them turn it on and see all the squiggly green lines appear underneath. Next they had them write down what the grammar checker. The class then tallied what kinds of errors occurred most often in their papers (comma splice, fragment, passive voice, etc.) Then the class chose what errors were most interesting to them and that is what they learned about. What is a comma splice? A fragment? (yes, I just used a fragment here to talk about fragments.)
Next, students got the opportunity to purposefully trigger the grammar checker. Go on, write a fragment! Next, students worked in groups with the goal to try and trigger the checker when the sentence is correct ("Little Women was a good book"--the checker would probably correct it to say, "Little Woman were a good book.")
Throughout this students learned 2 valuable things (hopefully)
1. they learned grammar concepts. This gives the opportunity to slip in "Here's how you make sure you have a complete sentence"
2. That the grammar checker doesn't know everything. They can't just trust it because it's often wrong. And yet, they'll learn how it's a good tool, as well.

This is the next direction I think I want to take the competition. It's simple, but I imagine it working--and it worked for these two teachers. Yes, if I use this, I will cite them and possibly send them an e-mail letting them know.