DEVICE, SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF ADAPTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

• US 20090035733A1
• Filed: 08/01/2007
• Published: 02/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Time To Know Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Time To Know Ltd.
• Inventors: Meitar, Shmuel, Gal, Michael, Weiss, Dov
• Application Number:
  US11/831,981
• Publication Number:
  US 20090035733A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/118
• 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

Device, system, and method of adaptive teaching and learning. For example, a teaching/learning system includes a real-time class management module to selectively allocate first and second digital learning objects for performance, substantially in parallel, on first and second student stations, respectively.

Claims

1. A teaching/learning system comprising:

a real-time class management module to selectively allocate first and second digital learning objects for performance, substantially in parallel, on first and second student stations, respectively.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the real-time class management module is to select the first and second digital learning objects from a repository of digital learning objects.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the real-time class management module is to receive from the first student station a signal indicating, substantially in real-time, successful performance of the first digital learning object.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the real-time class management module is to receive from the first student station a signal indicating, substantially in real-time, incorrect performance of at least a portion of the first digital learning object.

5. The system of claim 4 wherein, in response to the signal received from the first student station, the real-time class management module is to automatically allocate a third digital learning object for performance on the first student station.

6. The system of claim 4, further comprising a teacher station associated with the first and second student stations, wherein in response to the signal received from the first student station and further in response to a signal indicating approval received from the teacher station, the real-time class management module is to automatically allocate a third digital learning object for performance on the first student station.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the real-time class management module is to determine substantially in real-time that at least a portion of the first digital object has been incorrectly performed, and to selectively allocate for performance on the first student station a third learning object including at least said incorrectly performed portion of the first digital learning object.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein at least a portion of the third learning object comprises a modified version of at least a portion of the first digital learning object.

9. A computing station comprising an interface to present to a student a first set of learning exercises for performance, to identify one or more of the exercises that are incorrectly performed by the student, to determine a common topic of said one or more incorrectly performed exercises, and to selectively present to the student a second set of exercises in said common topic.

10. The computing station of claim 9, wherein the second set of exercises comprises at least one exercise including modified content of an exercise of the first set of exercises.

11. The computing station of claim 9, wherein prior to presenting the second set of exercises, the interface is to present a digital learning object in said common topic.

12. A computing station comprising an interface to present to a student a first set of learning exercises for performance, to identify one or more of the exercises that are correctly performed by the student, to determine a common topic of said one or more correctly performed exercises, and to selectively present to the student a second set of exercises in said common topic.

13. The computing station of claim 12, wherein the second set of exercises comprises at least one exercise including modified content of an exercise of the first set of exercises.

14. The computing station of claim 12, wherein a difficulty level of the second set of exercises is higher than a difficulty level of the first set of exercises.

15. A method of adaptive teaching, the method comprising:

generating a knowledge map associated with a student, the knowledge map including information reflecting knowledge levels of the student in a plurality of topics;

based on the knowledge map, allocating to the student a digital learning activity for performance; and

updating the knowledge map based on the performance results of the digital learning activity by the student.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the digital learning activity relates to one or more topics, and wherein updating the knowledge map comprises:

updating the knowledge map with information to reflect a level of the student in said one or more topics based on the performance of said student in said digital learning activity.

17. The method of claim 15, comprising:

identifying in the knowledge map a topic in which the knowledge level of the student is below a pre-defined threshold; and

allocating to the student a digital learning activity for performance in the identified topic.

18. The method of claim 15, comprising:

identifying in the knowledge map a topic in which the knowledge level of the student is above a pre-defined threshold; and

allocating to the student a digital learning activity for performance in the identified topic.

19. The method of claim 15, wherein the digital learning activity comprises at least first and second portions, the method comprising:

automatically modifying the second portion of the digital learning activity based on performance by the student of the first portion of the digital learning activity.

20. A collaborative learning system comprising:

a plurality of student stations to allow substantially parallel performance of a digital learning activity;

a teacher station to receive a first captured snapshot of the digital learning activity from a first student station of said student stations, and to receive a second, different, captured snapshot of the digital learning activity from a second student station of said student stations.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the teacher station comprises an input unit to select one or more captured snapshots from two or more received captured snapshots of the digital learning activity.

22. The system of claim 21, further comprising a display unit to selectively display the selected captured snapshots.

23. The system of claim 21, further comprising a display unit to selectively display scaled-down representations of the selected captured snapshots.

24. The system of claim 21, wherein the teacher station is to generate a snapshot of the digital learning activity, and wherein the display unit is to selectively display the snapshot generated by the teacher station and one or more captured snapshots received from student stations.

25. A system comprising:

a student station to allow a student to perform thereon one or more digital learning objects; and

an assessment module to assess, substantially in real-time, a knowledge level of said student based on performance of the one or more digital learning objects on the student station.

26. The system of claim 25, wherein the assessment module is to monitor, substantially in real-time, one or more parameters reflecting results of performance of the one or more digital learning objects by the student, and to report, substantially in real-time, said one or more parameters to a teacher station.

27. The system of claim 25, wherein the assessment module is to dynamically calculate a ratio between a number of exercises performed correctly by the student and a total number of exercises performed by the student.

28. The system of claim 25, wherein the assessment module is to generate an alert substantially in real-time if the assessed knowledge level is below a pre-defined threshold.

29. The system of claim 28, comprising a teacher station to present said alert substantially in real-time.

30. A system for facilitating teaching, learning and assessment, the system comprising:

a lesson planning module to generate a lesson plan having one or more learning activities intended to be performed in accordance with a planned sequence;

a real-time class management module to manage, substantially in real-time, teaching processes performed utilizing a teacher station and leaning processes performed utilizing student stations; and

an integrated assessment module to perform integrated assessment based on operations performed utilizing the student stations, the assessment integrated into the teaching processes and the learning processes.

31. The system of claim 30, wherein the lesson planning module is to modify the lesson plan based on input entered utilizing the teacher station substantially in real-time.

32. The system of claim 31, wherein the lesson planning module is to remove from the lesson plan a learning activity thereof, based on input entered utilizing the teacher station substantially in real-time.

33. The system of claim 31, wherein the lesson planning module is to replace in the lesson plan a first learning activity thereof with a second learning activity, based on input entered utilizing the teacher station substantially in real-time.

34. The system of claim 30, wherein the system is to divide students utilizing student stations into a plurality of groups based on multi-dimensional criteria.

35. The system of claim 34, wherein the system is to allocate a first learning activity to a first group of said groups, and to allocate a second learning activity to a second group of said groups, wherein the first and second learning activities to be performed substantially in parallel by said first and second groups, respectively.

36. The system of claim 30, wherein the system is to expose a subsequent learning activity to a student utilizing a student station if a pre-defined percentage of students utilizing student stations successfully completed a previously-exposed learning activity.

37. A computing station comprising:

a lesson planning module to generate a lesson plan representing, in accordance with a pre-defined scripting language, one or more learning activities intended to be performed during a lesson, and a sequence in which the learning activities are intended to be performed.

38. The computing station of claim 37, wherein the lesson planning module is to perform a modification of the lesson plan based on input entered substantially in real-time during the lesson through a teacher station.

39. The computing station of claim 38, wherein the modification comprises an operation selected from a group consisting of:

removal of a learning activity from the lesson plan;

replacement of a first learning activity in the lesson plan with a second, different, learning activity;

insertion of a learning activity into the lesson plan;

modification of the sequence of the learning activities;

modification of a sequence of two or more lesson plans of a study unit;

temporarily locking a learning activity to be unavailable to student stations; and

unlocking a previously-locked learning activity.

40. The computing station of claim 39, further comprising:

a speech recognition module to receive an oral input, and to determine that the oral input represents a command to perform said modification.

41. The computing station of claim 39, comprising a drag-and-drop interface to receive input representing a command to perform said modification.

42. The computing station of claim 37, wherein the lesson planning module is to dynamically perform a modification of the lesson plan, in accordance with one or more predefined rules, based on performance of one or more digital learning objects through one or more student stations.

43. The computing station of claim 42, wherein the modification comprises an operation selected from a group consisting of:

removal of a learning activity from the lesson plan;

replacement of a first learning activity in the lesson plan with a second, different, learning activity;

insertion of a learning activity into the lesson plan;

modification of the sequence of the learning activities;

temporarily locking a learning activity to be unavailable to student stations; and

unlocking a previously-locked learning activity.

44. A method of evaluating performance of a member of an education system, the method comprising:

generating a plurality of knowledge maps associated with a plurality of students associated with said member,

wherein each knowledge map comprises information reflecting knowledge levels of a student in a plurality of topics; and

assessing the performance of the member based on an aggregated analysis of the plurality of knowledge maps.

45. The method of claim 44, comprising:

evaluating the performance of a first member of the education system relative to a second member of the education system, based on a comparison between knowledge maps of students associated with the first member and knowledge maps of students associated with the second member.

46. The method of claim 44, comprising:

based on an analysis of operations performed by said member, determining that said member utilizes pre-provided lesson plans more than modified lesson plans or originally-created lesson plans; and

evaluating the performance of said member based on an aggregated analysis of a plurality of knowledge maps associated with said member.

47. The method of claim 44, comprising:

based on an analysis of operations performed by said member, determining that said member utilizes modified lesson plans more than pre-provided lesson plans or originally-created lesson plans; and

evaluating the performance of said member based on an aggregated analysis of a plurality of knowledge maps associated with said member.

48. The method of claim 44, comprising:

based on an analysis of operations performed by said member, determining that said member utilizes originally-created lesson plans more than pre-provided lesson plans or modified lesson plans; and

evaluating the performance of said member based on an aggregated analysis of a plurality of knowledge maps associated with said member.

49. A method for assessing knowledge of one or more students, the method comprising:

generating a knowledge map associated with a student, the knowledge map including information reflecting at least one of;

knowledge levels of the student in a plurality of topics;

skills of the student; and

competencies of the student.

50. The method of claim 49, comprising:

presenting a graphical representation of the knowledge map to distinctively indicate, in accordance with pre-defined presentation rules, topics in which the student is strong and topics in which the student is weak.

51. The method of claim 49, comprising:

determining a knowledge gap between;

actual knowledge of the student reflected in the knowledge map, and

required knowledge in accordance with an education system requirements.

52. The method of claim 49, comprising:

presenting a graphical representation of the knowledge map, the required knowledge, and the knowledge gap.

53. A method of generating a techno-pedagogic solution to a pedagogic problem, the method comprising:

determining an educational topic intended for teaching in a computerized environment;

correlating between a set of characteristics of the computerized environment and one or more pedagogic goals; and

determining a teaching process that utilizes at least a portion of the computerized environment to meet at least one of the pedagogic goals.

54. The method of claim 53, wherein determining a teaching process comprises:

determining an optimal teaching process that utilizes at least a portion of the computerized environment to meet a maximum number of pedagogic goals achievable with respect to said pedagogic problem.

55. The method of claim 54, comprising:

generating a digital learning object that represents said optimal teaching process.