HASHTAG (031): Aid-ucation

Revolutionizing the way educators teach & improve

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Inspiration

The MOE system is currently utilizing an indirect approach to improve the education system. Current initiatives are centered on modifying examinations instead of classes. Although it is admirable that the MOE is pushing for tech initiative, technology is still underutilized. These devices are only currently used to issue homework and ensure students have the technology to join online classes. All of these are bare minimal usage of technology. This is where we come in . At team hashtag, we believe in exploiting big data, to revolutionize the teaching landscape to something that is not only effective but more exciting.

What it does

We have spent the last 24 hours coming up with a platform to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and feedback from students to teacher. It allows students to contribute to the learning experience of their teacher by providing constant feedback to the teacher throughout the class. Teachers benefit from increased awareness of the “state” of the class, the effectiveness of their teaching methods and statistics of students learning over time, enabling them to adapt their teaching style to benefit the students and their teaching competency. There are 2 specific data that we think are representative of the “state of the class” they are. Level of understanding and pace of class.

Students are given 4 buttons to transfer their knowledge to the teacher. They are “I understand”, to indicate they are following the lesson clearly, “I’m lost” to indicate that they are now disengaged from the class. “Slow down” to prevent students from feeling overwhelmed and “Speed up” to prevent students from being bored. Their feedback is also anonymous, which encourages shy and quiet students to voice their opinions without being judged by other students

The teacher has access to 2 types of data Live data: For Immediate correction! Serves as a leading indicator of a student’s learning Review Data: View historical data to analyse which teaching styles and methods worked and which did not. Allow teachers to constantly adapt their methods

How we built it

The front end is built using React, while the back end is built with Django. The UI uses mostly Ant Design & a little of Material UI.

Challenges we ran into

Our main issue was time. Trying to deliver a functional workflow that is simple yet robust enough to demonstrate our intentions was definitely out biggest challenge as we had to decide which components were unnecessary or required too much effort for the purpose it brought to the table. 3 out of 4 of the team have yet to enroll in university and as such are not familiar with such decisions.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have a functional user journey integrated with the back end as well as pretty UI designs that we are very happy with.

What we learned

The user journey includes a lot more that goes into a web application than just making it look good. We also learnt to work with version control, specifically Github. Our team members have never worked in groups before and we are mostly used to solo or pair projects at best. This hackathon has provided us a great learning opportunity to pick up version control.

What's next for Aid-ucation

If given the opportunity, we would like to scale this up into a more functional product that is fully integrated with the back end. More importantly, we would like to improve on the analytics portion of the student's data so that educators can get a more in-depth analysis, possibly with the help of AI.

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