Project Thesis

This project uses gamification to keep the user more engaged. It uses pre-made hints that can provide personalized feedback to the student. It can adapt the hints to match the students' comfort and accuracy in solving the problem. That way, it meets the students at their level and slowly builds their confidence and their comfort level in the topic.

Precedents

Super Mario Bros 3

Scratch

Gimkit

Credit to griffpatch

؜Credit to Nintendo

Comparative Analysis with Precedents

؜Features

Math Content

User Engagement

؜Intelligent Tutoring

Reliability

Super Mario Bros 3

Gimkit

؜None

؜Some

؜A lot

Some

A ton

؜A lot

A lot

None

None

؜Some

؜

A lot

A lot

؜Our product

؜Key Features

؜؜We use an AI Chatbot to give hints and feedback when the student says that they need it.

؜Flow chart

؜Game Prototyping

؜Had a ton of prototypes and made a ton of mistakes.

Product Demo

1. Fairness: Make sure everyone has the same learning opportunity

1. Accountability: Because their teacher is checking over every hint, there should be no inaccuracies due to AI hallucinations

1. Transparency: The users know where all of their data is going and how it is being used

1. Ethics: intended to teach, so ensuring that learning is happening and that this is not just a video game.

FATE Analysis

Personal AI Reflection

Sammy:

I didn't really use a ton of AI for this project because I was designing the game but I did use it a bit to help me code. I just wish the code it gave me worked.

؜Kaia:

I personally don't use AI a lot, and I'm morally against it, but the few times I used it this project I have to say it wasn't awful; especially if you use it in a productive way it can actually be cool.

Nico:

I really enjoyed learning how to use HTML and JavaScript to have a working chat interface in a web page. I used GPT to help with the UI and the HTML templates. As far as embedding the GPT API in our HTML, I think it went smoothly (ish).

Thanks!

Feedback and Questions

Project Thesis

؜Teach and be Taught is an AI tutor for math. It's built around the concept of teaching the student a subject, then switching places with the student. Once they've swapped places, the tutor will pretend not to know how to solve the problem, and the user will walk the AI through solving the problem step-by-step, to demonstrate their understanding. The tutor is designed around having a conversation with a student in an organic way, rather than just giving instructions.

؜Teach and be Taught is a project that aims to create an Ai that can emulate the experience of working with a human tutor. This will act similar to Chat GPT in the sense it will also be a chat bot, however, it wont give students the answers to questions outright, it'll rather teach the student. The Ai will ask guiding questions, adapt to different learning styles, talk with students in a friendly way, etc. What makes this Ai special, is that when the student feels ready, the Ai will pretend to forget the math concept and task the student to teach the Ai the math to prove the student understands it.

Sam

Charlie

Precedents

Khanmigo

Photomath

Brilliant

؜Max

Comparative Analysis with Precedents

Our Product

Khanmigo

Brilliant

؜Features

Math Content

Variety, but no reliable source

Switching roles can keep user engaged

Very good, built specifically around it

Not as reliable, less well kept on track

Very good, as the teaching step is built in

؜Less structured, so completely variable

Very good, tuned specifically for it

Relatively reliable,

Almost none

Not a wide range of subjects, but most reliable information

Interactive lessons, but less variable interactions

Very little intelligent tutoring involved

Completely reliable, no variability in lessons

Relatively good, built in to the curriculum

User Engagement

؜Intelligent Tutoring

Reliability

Not as well-tuned as Khanmigo, but still good

Formative analysis

؜Sam

؜AI in Education Usecase

Key features

1. In class or at home for school or a homework helper
2. To help students who need 1 on 1 help with their math
3. The AI will swap roles with the student and have them teach the Ai the math

؜Max

User Flow Diagram

Start

Student asks AI for assistance on a math problem

؜AI walks through how to solve math problem with the student

AI asks student if they're ready to swap roles

AI generates a math problem for the student

AI poses as student and pretends to not know the math topic

Student walks AI through math problem

AI asks guiding and clarifying questions to make sure the student has a in-depth understanding of the topic

Student successfully teaches AI math

؜AI corrects student

Student makes a mistake

Charlie

؜Training AI

SCREEN SHOTS OF AI PROTOTYPES OR SOMETHING

Sam

MOCK UPS

Charlie

MOCKUPS

Charlie

Charlie

Charlie

HTML؜

PROTOTYPING

HTML

Max

Max

Max

Product Demo

Sam

User Testing

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PUT SCREEN RECORDING HERE

Sam

؜User Testing

Feedback

1. It teaches relatively well, but can break the problem down too far.
2. When the tutor is learning, it doesn't strike a good balance between not knowing anything and already knowing how to solve the problem
3. It has too much fluff, especially when learning.
4. The AI was surprisingly good at walking users through problems and not outright giving students free answers.
5. It was harder than I expected to get it to intentionally make mistakes, and I had trouble making it

Charlie

FATE Analysis

1. ؜Fairness
2. to avoid issues with not understanding things such as some thick accents, the AI will be text based.
3. Accountability
4. The AI will make sure that it actually challenges the student and pushes them to learn.
5. Transparency
6. Allows teacher to see question and answer to avoid it being used to just give the answer to a problem without learning.
7. AI will also show its resources it uses for teaching
8. Ethics
9. Doesn't simply give students answers to problems.

Sam

Next Steps

Next, we'd probably want to see if it would be possible to

1. Import images to the AI for more visual problems like in geometry
2. Add analysis feature, so that it can help collaborate with the work on the white board,
3. The directory will save the different chats with the AI

Max

Feedback and Questions

؜What ways could we make the Ai feel easier to talk to

What are the biggest flaws in the design?

How could the AI better adapt students specific needs

؜SAM

؜Thank You!

Personal Math Learning Journey

1. What's your personal relation with Maths?
2. How has the education system shaped your view of Maths?
3. What are some of your struggles about the subject/system?
4. What parts about Math learning do you enjoy?

Charlie

؜Sam

Max

1. I've never really liked it, but I want to
2. The way I've been taught math for the majority of my life has been simply memorizing formulas
3. I was taught to memorize but not actually learn
4. When I can see how it applies to the real world

1. I initially didn't like math as much, but as I got further along I liked it more.
2. I had trouble with the way public school taught math.
3. I struggled with the pace that math was taught at.
4. I like the puzzle-solving aspect of math, trying to figure out how to solve a problem.

1. I have had a rough past with math, but i enjoy it.
2. The math school taught me was good, but they did not teach us how to have a good mindset.
3. They don't try to make me like it.
4. I like to learn how it actually shows itself in the world, and practical uses of it.

We started this project by ananlysing our own past experiences with learning math. As well as the possibilities for one on one tutoring Ai brings to the table which led to what we are going to make

Max

Project Thesis

1. What specific subjects/concepts/skills would you be focusing on?
2. All depending on grade level but were starting with Algebra 1

1. Where is the point of intervention for your AI tutor while interacting with the students?
2. There are two points of intervention, At first the AI assists you in your learning, then you switch rolls and you teach the AI

1. In what ways will your support your student?
2. By teaching the student how to solve the problem step-by-step then cementing that knowledge by playing the role of a student.

1. How is it intelligent?
2. It will know how to break problems down in different ways

We are creating an AI tutor to act as your teacher, as well as your student. Providing a structured learning experience to students, as well as the opportunity to prove your understanding by teaching the topic back to the AI.

؜

Sam

Precedents

Khan Academy Khanmigo

Photomath

؜Brilliant

Charlie + Sam

Character Name: Theo

Things they find interesting in Math

Things they find challenging in Math

Things they are currently doing in Math

Learning Preferences:

Talking problems out, example problems

Math Learning Environment Details: Is used to learning in a traditional classroom setting

Thoughts on AI Tutor

؜Grade Level: 8th

Age: 13

Math enjoyment: low

willingness to learn: high

User Persona

Useful application, math in everyday life

Complicated word problems, complex formulas.

؜Basics of Algebra

They're indifferent to the idea of an AI tutor.

Max

Start

Student asks AI for assistance on a math problem

؜AI walks through how to solve math problem with the student

AI asks student if they're ready to swap roles

AI generates a math problem for the student

؜AI poses as student and pretends to not know the math topic

؜Student walks AI through math problem

AI asks guiding and clarifying questions to make sure the student has an in-depth understanding of the topic

Student successfully teaches AI math

AI corrects student

Student makes a mistake

Charlie

The purpose of this AI is to try and simulate what its like working with a human tutor as best it can, this means talking the student through problems, asking guiding questions, and having a conversation with the student about the subject matter when needed.

Human Touch

Max

؜One of the best ways to learn is one on one tutoring, We want to make sure this AI highlights the same human qauilitys that help when interacting with a tutor, tlaking the student throught problems engaging in conversations, and answering any queastions the student could have

1. ؜Fairness
2. to avoid issues with not understanding things such as some thick accents, the AI will be text based.
3. Accountability
4. The AI will make sure that it actually challenges the student and pushes them to learn.
5. Transparency
6. Allows teacher to see question and answer to avoid it being used to just give the answer to a problem without learning.
7. AI will also show its resources it uses for teaching
8. Ethics
9. Doesn't simply give students answers to problems.

FATE Analysis

Sam

؜Thank you!