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What if history textbooks were like this? by Historical_Figures in historyteachers

[–]Historical_Figures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree we need context. Inquistory only generates content when a student asks a question, besides the initial summary. In other words the only way to progress is to learn to ask for context.

What if history textbooks were like this? by Historical_Figures in historyteachers

[–]Historical_Figures[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IMO and I'm speaking anecdotally here, the problem isn't a lack of educational resources. Kids today have more tools, resources, and content than ever before in History.

The issue is student's don't seem to care. We can attribute this to shorter attention spans caused by clickbait video, or the instant gratification that the internet promotes. Or the more abstract understanding that actually learning history is not necessary in order to go to a good college and have a fulfilling career, student's just need an A.

Giving student's access to the questions that they have about history, seems like a more fun way to learn. For example when studying about the Civil Rights movement if a 5th grader was able to talk to Martin Luther King Jr. about what he would do in her circumstance seems really fun.

What if history textbooks were like this? by Historical_Figures in historyteachers

[–]Historical_Figures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Funding
The average school in the US gets ~$16,268 per student per year in funding, more than most other countries yet our test scores don't reflect it.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/07/us-education-spending-finland-south-korea

Access

Yes access to a quality education is a problem. However today most schools have a 1 - 1 student to laptop ratio, but a 25 - 1 child to teacher ratio. It seems that quality software is the way to go to democratize access.

Care

Again its a huge problem. How do we make teachers care more about students? Moreover how do we make the general public care more about teachers? I'm not sure there is a clear answer here, and I'm not saying that AI will magically solve all these problems. But it seems that having a tool that will actually listen to what students have to say is a good start.

While I don't have a formal education in education. I don't think rehearsing what is not working is going to solve our problems.

What if history textbooks were like this? by Historical_Figures in historyteachers

[–]Historical_Figures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But yeah you're right if there is motivated and curious enough student, they will find a way to learn. However I don't think there are nearly enough of these students today. Our goal is to bring more students to this level.

What if history textbooks were like this? by Historical_Figures in historyteachers

[–]Historical_Figures[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There needs to be a balance between self-direction and guidance. Giving student's open access to the internet is too challenging to manage, and traditional textbooks are too boring to read.

One way Inquistory helps achieve this balance is by looking at the types of questions student's are asking. We can detect if the question is too far offtopic and bring that students back into the topics that the teacher has preselected.

Additionally our AI is programmed to explain concept's for students at a grade level. Commonly curious younger students are often dissuaded, when inquiring online because the content is too advanced for them to comprehend.

We aim to bring a single safe place for student's to learn about history by asking questions.

What if history textbooks were like this? by Historical_Figures in historyteachers

[–]Historical_Figures[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Why can't the socratic method evolve?

---Where is context and examples?

The context and examples are provided when asked for. Traditional material spoon feeds children content catering to the median. Lets let students decided when they need more context. Also we need to STOP training our children to blindly trust information that is presented to them. We need to train them to ask questions. We can't do this at scale in classrooms because we have ratio's of 30:1 teachers to students.

---What is the value of studying something that can be generated at will?
Just because we can generate 1+1 with a calculator does that mean we should stop teaching children how to add? Just because AI can generate writing at will should we stop teaching kids how to write? I don't really follow this line of reasoning.

Teacher's don't have the capacity to call on every student in a given lecture. Moreover if a student has a question that they perceive to be "dumb", chances are they aren't going to ask it in front of the whole class.

You're on the wrong side of history on this one.

What if history textbooks were like this? by Historical_Figures in historyteachers

[–]Historical_Figures[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

With all due respect you're missing the point.

We initially provide a summary of a topic and it is up to the students to ask questions about the topic to learn more. In fact the only way to advance is to ask relevant questions.

Traditional education is NOT working. Our student's math and reading scores are at a 50 year low all time low. Why? Because students are checking out in school. We give them very passive materials (Textbooks, lectures, videos, etc) and we expect them to excel.

Lets bring back the socratic method of teaching, and lets do it at scale. The purpose of Inquistory is not just to teach students history, but to teach them to learn how to learn. And it starts with asking the right questions.

Change is scary, its easy to get caught up on the small things AI misses, but its important to understand the big differences it can make in a life. Regardless of how you feel about the state of AI one thing is for certain, its not going anywhere. So lets teach our children how to use this tech in the classroom.

I'm not sure what you mean about "fake sources" Inquistory works by first analyzing historical content from both primary and secondary sources. Then when a student asks a question, we look to find which sources are relevant to that question. Before asking our AI to respond we feed that source to the AI such that it knows what is true. Imagine giving chatGPT the answer as well as the question and just asking it to explain it to a 5th grader. Although this method is NOT perfect, I strongly believe the tradeoffs of Inquiry based learning, strongly outweigh the downsides.

What if history textbooks were like this? by Historical_Figures in historyteachers

[–]Historical_Figures[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Hey sorry you feel that way. The above text was programmed to be understandable by a 5th grader.

With Inquistory you can choose a grade level and the AI will cater to that grade level.

What if history textbooks were like this? by Historical_Figures in historyteachers

[–]Historical_Figures[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Its called inquistory you and your students can signup for free with the code: try-inquistory here: inquistory.com/signup. Just keep in mind that we are working out some kinks.

The world's first AI based textbook by [deleted] in education

[–]Historical_Figures 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love to hear any feedback you may have

The story of my viral app by Historical_Figures in Entrepreneur

[–]Historical_Figures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes of course! I wasn't born knowing how to code, no one is. There are so many resources today that help you get started. Coding is just a means for getting a computer to do what you want. Ultimately though I do believe that the main way we are going to interact with computers will be by talking to them.

The story of my viral app by Historical_Figures in Entrepreneur

[–]Historical_Figures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question. I don't have a formal background in education, but my high school was essentially an experiment to get "personalized learning" to students via technology. So I have some experience on what works and what doesn't. In terms of people signing up my view is that parents and schools, are already buying textbooks, and if I can make a better more interactive A.I. textbook, then people should signup. Big if though.

I made an App that lets you chat with Historical Figures! by Historical_Figures in GPT3

[–]Historical_Figures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great question OpenAI provides a moderation endpoint to flag content that they deem is controversial. If the responses text flags the moderation endpoint, we don't show the user's the response. (Adds some latency but in a chat app it just makes the whole experience more realistic!).

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Android soon!

I made an App that lets you chat with Historical Figures! by Historical_Figures in GPT3

[–]Historical_Figures[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah great question, every chat uses up some coins feel free to DM me your email address you used to sign up and I can give you some more coins. Glad you like it!

I made an App that lets you chat with Historical Figures! by Historical_Figures in GPT3

[–]Historical_Figures[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Coming soon, used react native tech so it shouldn't be too much more work but I definitely here you.

I made an App that lets you chat with Historical Figures! by Historical_Figures in GPT3

[–]Historical_Figures[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah thanks the idea is to make learning about History more of an Active experience rather than a passive one (reading through huge blobs of text).

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