Capstone Timeline

Research

Outreach

Observations

Brainstorming

Refining

Final Presentation

I spent ten years in a Montessori classroom and I loved every second of my time there. Throughout the years, I learned important building blocks that make the foundation of who I am today. Now, in my final year at NuVu, I love looking into the innovations of technology and how they can benefit the world. This project is the crossroads of two components that are very important to my life: my Montessori education and my love for pushing the limits of what's possible.

Inspiration

Importance

• This year's American Montessori Society's annual conference main theme was Artificial Intelligence

• Future technologies will play a large part in our future, we need to prepare future generations to excel in that world

• If used in the right setting it can help students develop important cognitive skills

Literature Review

• The 4PADAFE instructional design matrix illustrates a practical application of AI in education, enhancing understanding and engagement through personalized assistance.

• Generative design utilizes AI to enhance human creativity rather than replace it, fostering innovation across fields.



• "If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you probably would design something like a classroom."

Emphasize the point that there were doubters of Montessori, and there are now doubters of AI and future technology, but they will be proven wrong like the doubters of Montessori cirriculum

What Is Montessori?

• Teachers are Facilitators
• Freedom to Explore
• Hands-on Learning

Why Technology Doesn't Fit

• Focus on Physical Materials
• Freedom Within Limits
• Direct Interaction with Environment

Outreach

Blake Johnson

Multi-Faceted

Storytelling

Impressionistic

Concrete

Starting Points

Mr. Bob

• Tech Educator
• Always excited about Tech
• Taught Me!!

Pins

Interactive Blocks

Student Identifier

Interactive Display

Brainstorming

Using AI adaptively

Interactive Digital Display

$$$

Too Digital

Multifaceted

Story Telling

Augmented Reality

What About AR?

• Look at existing technology in the classroom
• How is technology being used? Independent or collaboratively?
• How do the teachers feel about it?

WWF Free Rivers AR Game

Questions For Observations

Classroom Observations

Montessori

Technology

Teachers

• Almost everything is learned through discovery and observation
• The open environment encourages self correction

• There is a physical component in every lesson
• Everything is reinforced with reflection/debriefs

• Technology is used to experience the impossible
• Teachers use technology to reinforce what is being learned with physical materials.

Re-Framing

Montessori

Technology

Teachers

Discovery & Exploration

Experience The Impossible

Physical Components

Augmented Reality

"Experience The Impossible"

Sketches

Mocking Quick Prototype

Wireframe

Wireframe

More Interaction!!

More Immersive!!

Material Design

3D Modeling

Object Detection

AR Functionality

3D Modeling

Animation

Design

Material Design

Material Design

Object Detection

AR Functionality

Combining Components

Sorry Maria Montessori

Realism

Collaboration

Thank You!!

Sue Angelides 

Krista Bartolome

Anna Dubrowski

Nada Elsonni

Kari Frentzel

Keenan Gray

Isabel Jacobs

Blake Johnson

Masha Karbovskaya

Rob MacDonald

John Mendizabal

Isa Murray

Amy Neale

Laura O'Leary

Annu Radha Kumar

Sammy Sass

Keith Schacht

Katelyn Shore

Robert Sisson

Matt Stalberger

Hunter Stillwell

Diane Sullivan

Jon Turnquist

Elka Walter