Framework for Organizating AI Innovations in Education

Our long-term vision is to move the market to fewer and more comprehensive tools that create instructional coherence and improve teacher and student learning.  The key to doing this lies in:

  1. Leveraging rapidly evolving AI capabilities, and

  2. Integrating those capabilities into better experiences for educators and students

The 10 year vision

Where we see AI innovation playing a role

The framework below organizes promising AI innovations into six categories that: 

  1. Support the educator’s planning

  2. Extend the educator’s reach

There are numerous examples of innovations that could be pursued in each category. Time should be spent on testing them in context with educators and students to improve both UI/UX and impact.

It will also be critical to develop seamless UX for educators to “Make it Coherent,” or move directly from planning to enactment with a minimum of additional work.  AI can enable the planning tools to seamlessly incorporate insights from student and classroom work through a variety of different systems. See below.

Examples of how AI can be deployed

Thesis Examples
Category Examples
Teacher Coaching
  • Use teacher context, teacher performance and student data to tailor coaching sessions, providing targeted feedback or creating coaching protocols
  • Offer real-time feedback during lessons
  • Connect teachers with relevant professional development resources
  • Assist with self-evaluation and reflection
  • Monitor student progress in project-based learning environments
  • Automate routine tasks like parent communication or grading
  • Advise on effective teaching methods based on lesson plans and student responses
  • Support teachers in providing feedback on transferable skills like empathy
Adapt Curriculum with Rigor
  • Improve the usability of current curriculum
  • Create curriculum tailored to student and teacher needs
  • Provide scaffolding supports to students
  • Generate materials for independent study
  • Aid in creating culturally relevant and engaging learning activities
  • Generate custom mini-books aligned with unit topics
  • Identify curriculum or student learning gaps and offer targeted lesson materials
Student Practice
  • More and better feedback on more and better assignments
  • Generate culturally relevant and engaging practice activities for each student
  • Align practice with learning science principles, like forgetting curves
  • Generate interactive practice exercises simulating real-world applications
  • Integrate authentic tasks from the curriculum
Small Group/Peer-to-peer Facilitation
  • Facilitate peer-to-peer learning through collaborative practice activities
  • Facilitate small group instruction aligned to student needs
  • Facilitate peer assessment using guidelines and rubrics
  • Facilitate collaborative problem-solving activities
  • Monitor and guide group discourse to improve understanding and dynamics
Augmented Tutoring
  • Provide tutors with a comprehensive understanding of each student's needs
  • Suggest tutoring strategies based on data
  • Assist tutors with resources and activity planning
  • Facilitate communication between the tutor, student, and educators to create instructional coherence
Make It Coherent
  • Enable planning tools to seamlessly incorporate insights from student and classroom work
  • Integrate tools and products together in learning management systems, curriculum products, or usable websites to increase coherence

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