INTERACTIVE EDUCATIONAL TOOL

• US 20130164726A1
• Filed: 12/23/2011
• Published: 06/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adventium Enterprises LLC
• Original Assignee: Adventium Enterprises
• Inventors: Carpenter, Todd P., Nelson, Kyle S., Michalowski, Martin
• Granted Patent: US 9,111,458 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/362
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/125 the stations being mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

Systems, devices, and methods associated with interactive educational tools are described herein. One device includes instructions executable by a processor to cause a plurality of mobile devices to each represent a respective subsystem associated with an objective, cause an interaction between at least two of the plurality of mobile devices to represent a relationship between the respective subsystems represented by the at least two mobile devices, and aggregate a number of interactions between the at least two of the plurality of mobile devices to form a coordinated response associated with achieving a particular objective.

Claims

1. A computer-readable medium having instructions associated with an interactive education tool stored thereon, the instructions executable by a processor to:

cause a plurality of mobile devices to each represent a respective subsystem associated with an objective;

cause an interaction between at least two of the plurality of mobile devices to represent a relationship between the respective subsystems represented by the at least two mobile devices; and

aggregate a number of interactions between the at least two of the plurality of mobile devices to form a coordinated response associated with achieving a particular objective.

2. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the objective is an educational objective associated with an assignment.

3. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the interaction includes a physical interaction.

4. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the interaction includes a physical contact between the at least two of the plurality of mobile devices.

5. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the subsystem includes a number of components associated with a nervous system.

6. The computer-readable medium of claim 5, wherein the number of components include at least one of a neuron, a spinal cord, and a cell.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein aggregating a number of interactions to form the coordinated response includes a formation of a representation of an interconnected physical system associated with the particular objective.

8. A system for providing an interactive educational tool, the system comprising:

a number of computing devices including processor and memory resources and configured to transmit a set of computer-executable instructions that when executed by a number of mobile devices cause;

a first mobile device to represent a first subsystem of a physical system associated with an educational objective;

a second mobile device to represent a second subsystem of the physical system associated with the educational objective; and

an interaction between the first and second mobile devices to represent an interaction between the first and second subsystems;

wherein the interaction between the first and second subsystems represents at least a portion of a coordinated response associated with achieving the educational objective.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the set of computer-executable instructions includes instructions that when executed by at least one of the number of mobile devices cause the interaction between the subsystems to be displayed to a display of at least one of the first and second mobile devices.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the number of computing devices are configured to transmit computer-executable instructions to an additional computing device, the instructions executable to display the interaction between the subsystems to a display of the additional computing device.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the set of computer-executable instructions includes a library of educational subjects each having a number of subsystems corresponding thereto.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the library includes a number of educational objectives.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein a number of educational subjects of the library include a number of different complexity levels associated therewith.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein each of the number of different complexity level includes a number of particular subsystems associated therewith.

15. The system of claim 8, wherein at least one of the number of computing devices is configured to transmit the set of computer-executable instructions to a coordinating computing device configured to monitor progress, toward the solution, of users of the first and second mobile devices.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the coordinating computing device is configured to track educational development of users of the interactive educational tool across a number of educational lessons.

17. The system of claim 8, wherein the coordinated response corresponds to a common goal of users of the first and second mobile devices.

18. A computing device for implementing an educational tool, the computing device comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon and executable by the processor to;

provide an educational objective to a number of students; and

receive a coordinated response associated with achieving the educational objective, the coordinated response based on a number of interactions between mobile devices used by the number of students;

wherein the mobile devices represent respective subsystems of a system associated with the educational objective, the number of interactions represent interactions between the respective subsystems, and the interactions between the respective subsystems represent at least a portion of the coordinated response.

19. The computing device of claim 18, wherein the computing device is configured to evaluate the number of students based on the coordinated response.

20. The computing device of claim 18, wherein the computing device is configured to display a number of portions of the coordinated response.