Imagine for a moment that you are facilitating learning for a class of 30 elementary age students. You take time to get to know and build meaningful and supportive relationships with each of your students.
You regularly assess and give feedback to your students on actions they can take to improve their skills across each focus area in your curriculum, but you can really only focus on one student at a time, or small groups at best.
After four months working with your students you have a pretty good idea who they are, what interests them, and how to differentiate instruction and support to meet the needs of every learner in your class.
After 8 months with your class, you are a finely tuned, collaborative learning community, supporting one another. You know exactly how to encourage and support each learner in your class, but you know that with a little more support, an extra set of eyes and ears in the classroom you could do so much more.
Then, just a short time later, the school year has finished and you are saying your farewells as they move on to a new grade level, and a new teacher, who begins the process of getting to know them all over again.
Now imagine you start the year reviewing learning profiles for each of your students. By looking at their own independent exploration and learning you can get a real sense for their interests and passions both in and outside of the classroom. You start the year already knowing so much about your class, and hearing them tell you about their own learning journey in their own words.
Based on the dynamics of your group as a whole you are offered expert suggestions for areas to focus on, and interesting ways to unpack the curriculum with your class. Rather than poring through heaps of assessment data, you are offered only the most relevant information based on your needs and learning objectives. Your students see you as an expert learner, there to facilitate their learning and support them on their learning journey.
As you assess and observe, you feed that data back into the system and it is shared with the students, as well as their caregivers and others involved in facilitating their learning. The focus is always on the learners, both as individuals, and as a group and the exciting challenge becomes finding interesting ways to stimulate their interest, and help your learners to build upon their existing knowledge in a way that is social, personal and applied.
Regardless of where the learning is happening, your students are able to access insights, and be offered interesting connections to their current interests and passions that both meet the learning goals for their particular age and stage, and engage them in a personal manner. This is all possible with the support of artificial intelligence, the Adaptive Learning Coach.