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I'm confused about this idea. Will your app be used as a teaching aid? I think that's hard, because not only it has to solve the problem at hand, but it has to

by Jun8 16y ago

I'm confused about this idea. Will your app be used as a teaching aid? I think that's hard, because not only it has to solve the problem at hand, but it has to solve it in a pedagogical way. If it just generates the answer without teaching teh student, it will meet with a lot of resistance. Even if you solve this problem, chances are that many educators will oppose this idea, unless all their students have access. It would be unfair for other students who are not rich or tech savvy enough to use your app. High school students would be a hard market, I would think, unless you app is viewed as a cool "cheater app". A better approach is to go through learning centers catering to students, e.g. Sylvan Learning Center or direct marketing to bigger and more affluent high schools.

DeusExMachina 16y ago
What I'm thinking is exactly something pedagogical, an app that shows you the passages with explanations on why and what rule was applied, with different rules for granularity. I know it's not an easy app to implement, maybe I'm too naive but I think I have an idea how to do it, applying some knowledge I have in AI as well as math. To me the kind of exercises you do in high school have always been easy to solve, seeming mechanical and algorithmical and suited to computers. During university I worked with theorem provers too, that seem to me much more complicated programs than this, giving me a sense of feasibility. Maybe I'm just mistaken, but I would like to give it a try. I don't understand why or how educators could oppose the idea, since it would be something that students would use at home to do homework. I'm thinking about an easy interface, so few people will be cut out and I'm thinking about a low price point, so I hope I will not cut out poor people. My aim is education, but I understand that it could be used for cheating too. But cheaters find ways to cheat anyway (this has always has amused me, they are really creative on this), they are not my target.

by Jun8 16y ago

DeusExMachina 16y ago

What I'm thinking is exactly something pedagogical, an app that shows you the passages with explanations on why and what rule was applied, with different rules for granularity. I know it's not an easy app to implement, maybe I'm too naive but I think I have an idea how to do it, applying some knowledge I have in AI as well as math. To me the kind of exercises you do in high school have always been easy to solve, seeming mechanical and algorithmical and suited to computers. During university I worked with theorem provers too, that seem to me much more complicated programs than this, giving me a sense of feasibility. Maybe I'm just mistaken, but I would like to give it a try. I don't understand why or how educators could oppose the idea, since it would be something that students would use at home to do homework. I'm thinking about an easy interface, so few people will be cut out and I'm thinking about a low price point, so I hope I will not cut out poor people. My aim is education, but I understand that it could be used for cheating too. But cheaters find ways to cheat anyway (this has always has amused me, they are really creative on this), they are not my target.