Fully customizable and adaptive AI enhanced holographic tutoring systems will utilize various advanced technologies that work seamlessly together. The most obvious will be the actual hologram itself but also present will be voice and facial recognition, spatial mapping, and learning analytics that will work in parallel feeding information to the artificial intelligence system.
In 2009, the U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan state that 21st century students will be focused on creativity, perseverance, and performing as a team (Larson, 2011) These skills are best taught via interactive social learning. In a home schooling situation, AI holograms can become a useful interface. Combined with such communication applications as Google Meet or Zoom in which the students stay in contact with peers, a powerful learning environment is starting to take shape. The Holographic interface will be and feedback mechanisms would include facial and voice recognition, as well as spatial mapping, and learning analytics that will feed information to the Artificial Intelligence component of the system.
Key to the success of these types of educational systems is the ability of the AI enhanced hologram to have a personal conversation with the student or students to provide explanations and feedback, to adapt and answer students questions. This supports a constructivist intention to use feedback as an opportunity for the student to further process and build the knowledge base. The AI Hologram would add scaffolding in support of the learning activities that the student engages in, added of course by the direct link to the actual system based learning modules that the student interacts with. In essence, the learning activities themselves contribute to the ongoing assessment process, and adjustments to learning content and methods are made as appropriate in real time.
The research skills I learned in ETEC 6393 were coupled with the ability to envision and verbalize the interplay of technologies that could be combined to provide a viable solution for futuristic educational challenges. I feel that these two projects were a great opportunity to grow as an instructional designer. I wrote about the possibilities for the technology, then demonstrated them through the development of a lesson plan that could be presented by a holographic version of Leonardo Da Vinci himself.
The interesting thing about this grouping of technologies is that the technologies each exist, but direct application is waiting for them to become more cost effective. I did demonstrate how the lesson plan would work by simulating a lesson with my grandson, with me playing the part of a holographic version of Leonardo.