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| As time goes by, we are increasingly
surrounded by
data.
In the century to come, no matter what career they choose, today's
students will need to be
comfortable working with data. MERGE-AI is a computer-based educational system that teaches kids how to draw and interpret graphs of data. It combines computer-delivered verbal instruction with "cognitive tutoring", where the computer observes each student drawing and interpreting graphs, in order to tailor its instruction exactly to that student's needs. MERGE-AI is designed for home-school students between the ages of 10 and 13. A different version of the software designed for middle school classrooms has been successfully used at three schools in urban and suburban Pittsburgh. |
Hello. I'm Ryan
Shaun Baker, a doctoral student in
Human-Computer Interaction at
Carnegie Mellon University, under the supervision of Dr. Albert Corbett
and Dr. Kenneth
Koedinger . I'm deeply interested in designing software to teach kids how to work with and understand data. I'm also very interested in learning how to design software to support homeschool students. Most educational research takes place in classrooms -- I think we have a lot we can learn by working with homeschool families. MERGE-AI is a pilot project in how we can extend cognitive tutoring from the classroom to the homeschool, and a study on how to best teach students to work with graphs of data. It is NOT a commercial product. It is a project I am working on as part of my PhD program. |
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