Digital Pen Delivers AI education
- By CDOTrends editors
- February 23, 2022
Swedish cloud software provider Anoto has launched a new AI-based education platform through its Knowledge AI (Kait) subsidiary.
The solution, which has already been tested on around 10,000 students in South Korea and the U.S., combines Anoto’s patented digital pen with a digital education platform. The combination enables teacher assessment and automatic guidance for students.
The platform is an upgrade of the previous version. It adds a direct-to-student option combined diagnostic assessment, auto-generated teaching, and a module for distance education with a focus on mathematics and science subjects.
In Kait's platform, the digital pen is an input device for the sophisticated data collection required for the solution's AI functionality to work. The digital pen measures various data points, the total results of which provide answers to whether the student really has understood the task and what the student should learn in the next step.
For the teacher, the solution means that they can identify differences in understanding between students even if they have received the same scores or grades on assignments or tests.
Kait provides teachers with a basis for assessing the student's understandings while the student receives guidance on any mistakes they have made in, amongst others, problem solving.
For the student, the technology is designed to make the studies easier and more relevant. The student can directly see where and how, for example, a mathematical calculation went wrong — much like when a word processing program red-marks a misspelling. The AI function can also set up schedules and design educational programs for students who think they have fallen behind.
Kait is launching the new application as a mobile application as well as an online and offline solution.
“We believe this is a game-changer solution in education. Since the solution is both a help for teachers to set more accurate grades at the same time as it can function as invaluable support for the students, we see great commercial opportunities,” says Joonhee Won, chief executive officer of Anoto.
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