The translation of Fractions Tutor from English into German is almost complete! As well as translating the buttons and the exercises directly, the iTalk2Learn partners have given cultural adaptation a lot of attention in order to result in a truly effective German version. What sort of problems have been discovered and overcome? At first, Ruhr…
In Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS), Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are increasingly used as decision-making methods. Performance Prediction is one of their main subtasks whose final goal is to predict student performances and define the students’ competence in relation to specific skills. Adaptive sequencers take a student’s past performances into account in order to select…
The Institute of Education (IOE) have been working with Mathematics Specialist Teachers (MaST) from the Midlands and the Northwest of England to share and test the latest version of Fractions Lab. In our two latest workshops, kindly facilitated by Edge Hill University during their March MaST days, we were interested in how Fractions Lab may…
At Whizz Education (Whizz), we aim to provide a learning journey that is tailored to each child’s individual needs, regardless of their background, age or ability. We see the potential to make this vision a reality through the iTalk2Learn project, and we believe every educator should pay close attention to the innovations of this project.…
7/6/13 The Institute of Education (IOE) worked with a small group of 10 to 11 year old students towards the end of the academic year to undertake three main tasks. The students that participated in the research were highly motivated high achievers. Discovering students’ fraction representations The aim of this trial was to observe…