SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING CUSTOMIZED VISUALLY-BASED LESSONS

• US 20100167255A1
• Filed: 06/09/2008
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Monarch Teaching Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Monarch Teaching Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Stafford, Lauren Michelle, Pierce, Douglas Martin, Shane, Howard, Murphy, Terence Michael, Richards, Jeffrey Allan, Allen, Paul Michael
• Application Number:
  US12/663,317
• Publication Number:
  US 20100167255A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/307.R
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

An interactive visually-based educational system and method that provides improved teacher-student, parent-teacher and teacher-teacher communication and collaboration. A plurality of data, such as video files, audio files, image files, document files, lesson templates, animations and the like, are received from a teacher, a supervisor, and the like, via a computer network. The received data is stored in a dynamic digital image library. The dynamic digital image library includes means for organizing the received data into easily identifiable and searchable curriculum categories. The received data is further used for generating visually-based lessons corresponding to the plurality of categories associated therewith, which lessons are stored in a digital interactive visual lesson library. The stored visually-based lessons are customized using personalized and other additional data and stored. The customized personalized visually-based lessons are interactively accessed via corresponding applications by associated students, teachers, and parents.

Claims

1. A system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons comprising:

receiving means adapted for receiving visually-based lesson data representative of at least one visually-based lesson via an associated computer network;

storage means adapted for storing a plurality of visually-based lessons in an associated visually-based lesson library accessible via the computer network;

organizing means associated with the visually-based lesson library configured to organize each of the plurality of stored visually-based lessons into at least one searchable lesson category, the at least one searchable lesson category comprising at least one of the group consisting of an academic category, a behavioral category, a language category, a functional category, and a skill category;

receiving means adapted for receiving component data representative of a component file, the component file including at least one of the group consisting of video data, image data, audio data, document data, and animation data;

storage means adapted for storing received component data in an associated dynamic digital library;

organizing means associated with the dynamic digital library configured to organize received component data into at least one searchable component category;

receiving means adapted for receiving selection data corresponding to at least one selected lesson category from at least one first associated user;

retrieving means adapted for retrieving category data representative of at least one category from the associated visually-based lesson library in accordance with received lesson selection data; and

generating means adapted for generating, via an associated display, display data representative of at least one visually-based lesson corresponding to the at least one selected category.

2. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving means adapted for receiving selection data representative of at least one selected visually-based lesson associated with the selected lesson category;

retrieving means adapted for retrieving at least one component file associated with the selected visually-based lesson;

generating means adapted for generating, via the associated display, display data representative of the at least one component file associated with the selected visually-based lesson;

receiving means adapted for receiving, from the associated user, component file selection data representative of at least one component file selected from the display thereof; and

generating means adapted for generating a customized visually-based lesson in accordance with the component file selection data and the selected visually-based lesson.

3. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 2, further comprising:

retrieving means adapted for retrieving educational standard data from at least one governmental entity via the computer network; and

association means for associating the retrieved educational standard data with at least one lesson category in the associated visually-based lesson library, wherein the lesson selection data is received from the first user in accordance with the associated educational standard data.

4. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 2, further comprising embedding means adapted for embedding at least one selectable component in the selected visually-based lesson, wherein the selectable component comprises at least one of the group consisting of an audio component, a video component, an image component, and an animation component.

5. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 2, further comprising storage means adapted for storing the customized visually-based lesson in association with at least one of the group consisting of student data, teacher data, individualized education plan data, organization data, and governmental data.

6. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 5, further comprising bi-directional communications means adapted for enabling communication between the first associated user an at least one additional user during the selection of a visually-based lesson.

7. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 2, wherein the at least one searchable component category comprises at least one of the group consisting of parts of a language, location associations, function associations, and personal associations.

8. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 7, wherein the at least one component retrieved in association with the selected lesson comprises at least one of the group consisting of a quiz, a positive reinforcement image component, a positive reinforcement audio component, a positive reinforcement video component, and a positive reinforcement animation component.

9. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 7, wherein the stored component data includes personalized component files associated with a specific student, further comprising:

receiving means adapted for receiving student-specific data from the first associated user representative of a specific student;

retrieving means adapted for retrieving at least one personalized component file associated with the student-specific data;

generating means adapted for generating the customized visually-based lesson in accordance with the at least one component file retrieved in accordance with the student-specific data; and

storage means adapted for storing the generated customized visually-based lesson in an associated storage in accordance with the student-specific data.

10. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 9, wherein the generating means further comprises incorporating means adapted for automatically incorporating personalized component files into a selected visually-based lesson so as to generate the customized visually-based lesson.

11. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 10, further comprising security means adapted for securing at least one personalized component file from unauthorized access.

12. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 9, further comprising communication means adapted for communicating at least one customized visually-based lesson to a portable student device via the computer network.

13. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 12, further comprising:

tracking means adapted for tracking the progress of a student interacting with the at least one visually-based lesson; and

reporting means adapted for reporting tracked progress of the student upon completion of the at least one visually-based lesson to at least one of the group consisting of an administrator, a teacher, a parent, and a state organization via the computer network.

14. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 13, further comprising:

monitoring means adapted for monitoring the progress of a student interacting with the at least one visually-based lesson via a remote device associated with at least one of the group consisting of an administrator, a teacher, and a parent;

selection means associated with the remote device adapted for selecting at least one additional component file for association with the at least one visually-based lesson; and

incorporating means adapted for incorporating the at least one selected additional component file into the at least one visually-based lesson during student interaction therewith.

15. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 14, wherein the at least one additional component file is selected from the group consisting of a timer, a reward, a popup window, a positive reinforcement image component, a positive reinforcement audio component, and a positive reinforcement video component.

16. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 13, further comprising:

reporting means adapted for reporting the tracked progress of the student to an administrator;

correlation means adapted for correlating the progress with individualized education plan data associated with the student; and

report generation means adapted for generating a report in accordance with the correlation of tracked progress and individualized education plan data.

17. The system for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 13, further comprising the steps of:

reporting means adapted for reporting the tracked progress of the student to an administrator;

correlation means adapted for correlating the progress with teacher data associated with the visually-based lesson; and

report generation means adapted for generating a report in accordance with the correlation of tracked progress and teacher data.

18. A method for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons, comprising the steps of:

receiving visually-based lesson data representative of at least one visually-based lesson via an associated computer network;

storing a plurality of visually-based lessons in an associated visually-based lesson library accessible via the computer network;

organizing each of the plurality of stored visually-based lessons into at least one searchable lesson category in the associated visually-based lesson library, the at least one searchable lesson category comprising at least one of the group consisting of an academic category, a behavioral category, a language category, a functional category, and a skill category;

receiving component data representative of a component file, the component file including at least one of the group consisting of video data, image data, audio data, document data, and animation data;

storing received component data in an associated dynamic digital library;

organizing received component data into at least one searchable component category in the associated dynamic digital library;

receiving selection data corresponding to at least one selected lesson category from at least one first associated user;

retrieving category data representative of at least one category from the associated visually-based lesson library in accordance with received lesson selection data; and

generating, via an associated display, display data representative of at least one visually-based lesson corresponding to the at least one selected category.

19. The method for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 18, further comprising the steps of:

receiving selection data representative of at least one selected visually-based lesson associated with the selected lesson category;

retrieving at least one component file associated with the selected visually-based lesson;

generating, via the associated display, display data representative of the at least one component file associated with the selected visually-based lesson;

receiving, from the associated user, component file selection data representative of at least one component file selected from the display thereof; and

generating a customized visually-based lesson in accordance with the component file selection data and the selected visually-based lesson.

20. The method for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 19, further comprising the steps of:

retrieving educational standard data from at least one governmental entity via the computer network; and

associating the retrieved educational standard data with at least one lesson category in the associated visually-based lesson library, wherein the lesson selection data is received from the first user in accordance with the associated educational standard data.

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising the step of embedding at least one selectable component in the selected visually-based lesson, wherein the selectable component comprises at least one of the groups consisting of an audio component, a video component, an image component, and an animation component.

22. The method for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 19, further comprising the step of storing the customized visually-based lesson in association with at least one of the group consisting of student data, teacher data, individualized education plan data, organization data, and governmental data.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising the step of enabling bi-directional communication between the first associated user and at least one additional user during the selection of a lesson.

24. The method for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 19, wherein the at least one searchable component category comprises at least one of the group consisting of parts of a language, location associations, function associations, and personal associations.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the at least one component file retrieved in association with the selected lesson comprises at least one of the group consisting of a quiz, a positive reinforcement image component, a positive reinforcement audio component, and a positive reinforcement video component.

26. The method for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 24, wherein the stored component data includes personalized component files associated with a specific student, further comprising the steps of:

receiving student-specific data from the first associated user representative of a specific student;

retrieving at least one personalized component file associated with the student-specific data;

generating the customized visually-based lesson in accordance with the at least one component file retrieved in accordance with the student-specific data; and

storing the generated customized visually-based lesson in an associated storage in accordance with the student-specific data.

27. The method for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 26, wherein the step of generating further comprises the step of automatically incorporating personalized component files into a selected visually-based lesson so as to generate the customized visually-based lesson.

28. The method of claim 26, further comprising the step of securing at least one personalized component file from unauthorized access

29. The method for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 26, further comprising the step of communicating at least one customized visually-based lesson to a portable student device via the computer network.

30. The method for generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 29, further comprising the steps of:

tracking the progress of a student interacting with the at least one visually-based lesson; and

communicating tracked progress of the student during the at least one visually-based lesson to at least one of the group consisting of an administrator, a teacher, a parent, and a state organization via the computer network.

31. The method generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 30, further comprising the steps of:

monitoring the progress of a student interacting with the at least one visually-based lesson via a remote device associated with at least one of the group consisting of an administrator, a teacher, and a parent;

selecting, via the remote device, at least one additional component file for association with the at least one visually-based lesson; and

incorporating the at least one selected additional component file into the at least one visually-based lesson during student interaction therewith.

32. The method generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 31, wherein the at least one additional component file is selected from the group consisting of a timer, a reward, a popup window, a positive reinforcement image component, a positive reinforcement audio component, and a positive reinforcement video component.

33. The method generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 30, further comprising the steps of:

reporting the tracked progress of the student to an administrator;

correlating the progress with individualized education plan data associated with the student; and

generating a report in accordance with the correlation of tracked progress and individualized education plan data.

34. The method generating interactive visually-based educational lessons of claim 30, further comprising the steps of:

reporting the tracked progress of the student to an administrator;

correlating the progress with teacher data associated with the visually-based lesson; and

generating a report in accordance with the correlation of tracked progress and teacher data.