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Welcome Team Pink! This is the home for your final report. Once complete, please erase this copy block and the Timer. 60 mins! GO!
The big idea “What if?”
Please use this page and its sections to summarize one Team's solution to a problem/challenge. This can be short paragraphs, bullets, sketches, etc. that provide a high-level overview of the product, idea, project, or concept. The purpose of this final report is to quickly and concisely communicate the main points to a reader.
Please take your time to craft a clear and compelling summary.
Opportunity
Use this block to remind the audience of the one solution the Team selected to build out to solve a problem/challenge “INSIDE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL CLASSROOM or IN THE HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM”. This should be a clear and compelling summary of:
- What problem/challenge is the Team trying to solve?
- What benefits does the solution offer?
- Why is this a priority?
Product Vision Summary (From Video):
This tool gathers information on students to support the teacher and class in facilitating productive class discussions. This tool builds a profile for each student, documenting each student’s capabilities (i.e. student success in reaching learning objectives) through classroom participation. The tool also passively gathers student interests and other information by engaging students in one-on-one chatbot conversations. Using this information, the tool gives the teacher real-time feedback, suggestions, and dynamic discussion techniques to better support student discussion through a privileged teacher interface. Tool saves data gathered on each student and uses it to inform suggestions in future discussions as well. In addition to suggestions to the teacher, tool projects discussion guidance on the board for the whole class to see. The discussion guidance could filling content knowledge gaps, provide background context, produce media on demand, synthesize topics with other classes. Scroll below for final product summary in Product section.
- What problem/challenge is the Team trying to solve?
- We are trying to uplift student engagement while saving teachers time
- What benefits does the solution offer?
- The tool: listening to student discussion and engaging them to aggregate interests and skills
- spine of the lesson— engaging with complex text and utilizing AI metric to adapt this set of texts to guide students into this
- AI suggests different modular activities to guide students into reading this complex text
- that can be reading a set of texts, engaging in a debate
- asking students to do something built on the previous activities
- Why is this a priority?
- Student engagement in school is a continuing issue. Students often feel that the content they learn in school does not relate to them or have real-world relevance.
- Teacher’s are overburdened with work and do not have the time or capacity to effectively support their students.
- These problems are related: if teacher’s do not have enough time to effectively craft a learning environment that engages each student as an individual, they cannot effectively learn as a whole group.
using discussion info to align texts to the correct level for the students
the lesson
Steps:
1. a process that draws out student interests using a prompt for a discussion that is listening and engaging groups of students
BRAINSTORMING PRODUCT DETAILS:
Building the Product: somehow utilizing student interests to be implementable into constraints of lesson plan and desired learning outcomes
- Rotating spotlight
- also gathers information on what they did and did not understand
- if the bot already has the broad context on a subject and then from there incorporates student interest
- develops a nuanced synthesis of personal data to contribute to each learner’s ability to participate in the group discussion
Facilitating Engagement:
- lesson plan can be contextualized per your interests within the contraints or goals of the lesson
- ex: physics lesson like velocity through the visualization of a soccer ball being kicked
- How can this be augmentive to support the teacher, instead designing the whole lesson plan
- Gathering data: Students submit a pre-course survey sharing their interests and tool utilzes these responses to the survey
- What medium is most useful to get the insights for the teacher?
- what great teacher moves do we want to shortcut and build within this product?
- Thought Exercise: Optimizing learning by way of alignment with interests, engagement
- English class 10th grade— critically analyze the bias in a text
- the problem is the teacher is trying to solve the student engagement challenge
- We allow students to have their own texts with some leveling tool to make sure kids are able to read it
- mutating the chosen texts to cover certain topics
- need text sets to build the background knowledge to read a certain text
- Product to build off of Trellis
“how much time is actually saved here?”
modular — aggregating student data— hands on activities, outside classroom experiences, resources
need: discussion, a text,
Potential Problem: losing students who are at different levels
Product
Use this block to share more about the product opportunity and development.
the Tool: an AI tool that captures discussion among students. While captuirng audio it is capturing competencies and interests. In real time it is offering suggestions to the teacher to incorporate dynamic discussion techniques and overall engagement. Tool is also has a chatbot component that passively gathers student interests and skillsets that incorporates this data into real-time class suggestions. What this could look like in class: suggested teacher moves to the teachers screen, individualized suggestions to each kid, or posted on the board for the whole class to see.
- Minimum viable product (MVP):
- Share your vision for what needs to be built in order to validate the solution.
- Our tool: something that draws out student interests (ai lisenting to discussions and engaging) that then adds context as needed to class discussions. This tool also takes notes on the discussion and aggregates and summarizes the dicscussion
- supplements in real time using identified gaps AND/OR student interests previously acquired (for ex: this learner missed xyz, adds and produces content/visualizing, or rephrases the missed content in a way that the student will understand)
- “heres a fact that might help continue or clarify the conversation…”
- Takes into account gaps it notes in the real-time convo AND gaps it knows based off of the profiles and aggregated passive data it has for each student
- a build on audiopen, lucinetic, teach fx
- Discuss how specific features or functionality will address users’ needs or pain points.
- Share basic sketches/mock-ups to give a sense of how it looks and works.
- Measurement of efficacy and effectiveness
- How will you validate the short and long-term benefits from the MVP?
- Fill out optional short-term measurement objectives that demonstrate how you’ll get early signal.
- Resources
- Discuss the team, technology and other inputs required to make this happen. This could touch on:
- Core technologies needed — voice recognition, transcribing, analysis and generation based on analysis
- in the short-term mic the students
- Time to develop — 18-24 mo initial dx
- Team and/or skillsets required
- Large expenditure considerations or estimated budget
SHORT TERM | ||
Activity associated to Output | Output Metric (objective) | Output Target (unit or %) |
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measure whether conversations are more consistently hitting objectives | ||
PD goal for the school: what kind of classroom discussions are we trying to build competencies in? more personalized student lead discussion, frequency of student engagement per student, active partcipation of student in class over time. | ||
can track the growth of a single student (from voice) For ex: bc at first didnt understand concept, but then hears that student identified concept | bc at first didnt understand concept, but then hears that student identified concept | |
The tool: An AI-powered tool that listens to student discussion. This tool will also have a chat bot component, through which students can communicate questions, project ideas and their general interests. The tool will build a profile on each student, collective passive information through the chatbot element, and, using voice recognition, aggregate it in real-time with each student’s participation in group discussion. The tool will then utilize this information to project discussion guidance for the whole class, to individual students, or the instructor.
Ethical Considerations & Risks
Use this block to share more about what we should address before launching this solution, both ethically and morally. Responsible technology begins with acknowledging technology is not inherently neutral. We need to deliberately consider all the potential impacts, good and bad, direct and indirect, that a solution that involves technology can create.
- Responsible tech
- Who else needs to be at the table to validate the efficacy of the solution? students parents educators
- Are there data privacy concerns? student private data that is shared w chatbot or overhead during class discussions
- Are there ethical considerations or biases that need to be raised?
- What are the worst-case scenarios if this solution is developed?
- Technical risks
- Are there any data challenges?
- Are there any engineering challenges?
- What bottlenecks could exist in development?
Problem: Student Surveillance/Privacy
Information that the student shares, either with the chatbot, or in-class discussion,
- to compare: students passive interests and actions being tracked by apps like insta
- example: conversational paradigm w chatbot, learning from student over time
- aggregates this stored data from each student
- have the ai listening to student conversation and aggregating these trends
Problem: Overpowering influence on student’s authentic brainstorming
This tool may over guide or influence authentic and natural pathways in discussion. Silence in the classroom is OK — its a growth moment.
- students are the last to know what they want to be doing
- issue of self-awareness
- passive reasoning over time collected from individual
Landscape & Rollout Model
Use this block to share more about:
- Position
- What are the current market trends, and are there trends the solution is capitalizing on?
- What does the current solutions landscape look like, and where does this product fit in? Similarly, why is this product different?
- Total addressable market
- Who does the solution serve and how big is that population?
- Who are the other potential stakeholders who will interact with or be affected by the solution and how big is that population?
- Distribution Plan
- What is the path to adoption to ensure this gets into the education system? Into the hands of the user? Are there specific stakeholders that need to be involved?
- Who are the first adopters (students, teachers, administrators, parents, policymakers, educational institutions, etc.) and who comes later on?
- What media channels exist that would be well suited to market the product?
Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary of terms
- Academic papers
- Educational toolkits
- Code repositories (if applicable)
- Exisiting Similar Products developments to track:
Existing Comparable Products in Market:
saga ( tutor boston, partnering with Boulder)-https://www.sagaeducation.org/saga-education-to-develop-taps-system-to-enhance-k12-tutoring-with-support-from-the-university-of-colorado-boulder-and-the-national-science-foundation/#:~:text=With this new grant%2C Saga,BOSTON%2C Nov.
teach FX (classroom discussion)- PD Tool —> https://teachfx.com/
OPTIONAL EXERCISE: Building with Measurement and Efficacy: Guiding the Implementation of AI in Evidence-based Educational Solutions
Aiming to strike a balance between fostering efficacy and ensuring agility in the development cycle of potential software innovations, this exercise invites participants to foresee and strategize the integration of efficacy-boosting tactics, all without curbing innovation or overtaxing resources.
Measuring Your Innovation's Effectiveness
Keep the learning objectives of your innovation forefront during this exercise. Embracing responsible design requires pinpointing and evaluating the elements of your innovation set for testing. Below is a template illustrating how to align your objectives with measures of effectiveness, steering towards responsible design and continuous refinement.
Provocations for reflection: What metrics will inform the effectiveness? How will you collect and interpret data to infer effectiveness?
Exercise:
1. NEAR TERM Efficacy Objective Identification:
What specific outputs do you plan to track and measure in the short term to evaluate the progress and success of your innovation during the immediate period (within 3-6 months of deployment)?
For all intents and purposes of this exercise, we define an "output" as the immediate results of an innovation’s activities, tasks, and actions. Output metrics are specific, measurable, and tangible.
Propose meaningful metrics that you can reasonably achieve and are ready to be held accountable for.
- Purpose: To identify the key efficacy objectives, propose functions to achieve them, and determine the frequency of these functions."
SHORT TERM | ||
Activity associated to Output | Output Metric (objective) | Output Target (unit or %) |
Type here! | Type here! | Type here! |
2. MEDIUM-LONG TERM Efficacy Objective Identification:
What medium- to long-term outcomes do you anticipate your innovation delivering for learners beyond in the medium term (within 9-18 months of deployment)?
How do you plan to measure and evaluate these intended outcomes to track the success and impact of your innovation over time? This exercise defines "outcome" as the specific and measurable changes, effects, or benefits that will result from the implementation of your innovation. Within this theme, focus on how your innovation will build toward your GOALS! This will be specific to the project, but for example, you could inquire about how to measure the tool's impact on career path selection or describe how it will help learners develop self-efficacy in relation to educational and career goals.
Propose meaningful metrics that you can reasonably achieve and are ready to be held accountable for.
- Purpose: To identify the key efficacy objectives, propose functions to achieve them, and determine the frequency of these functions.
MEDIUM TERM | ||
Activity associated to Output | Output Metric (objective) | Output Target (unit or %) |
Type here! | Type here! | Type here! |
Comparable in Market:
saga ( tutor boston, partnering with Boulder)-https://www.sagaeducation.org/saga-education-to-develop-taps-system-to-enhance-k12-tutoring-with-support-from-the-university-of-colorado-boulder-and-the-national-science-foundation/#:~:text=With this new grant%2C Saga,BOSTON%2C Nov.
teach FX (classroom discussion)- PD Tool —> https://teachfx.com/