Adapting to students’ affective states

How does iTalk2Learn enhance students’ learning experiences with feedback adaptation? We at Birkbeck and IOE are very interested in finding out how feedback can be adapted in line with students’ affective states. The task-independent support within the iTalk2Learn platform is able to tailor feedback types, as well as presenting feedback according to the affective state of the given student.…

News of Fractions Lab is getting around!

The IOE were invited to speak at the Shropshire Cross-Phase Mathematics Conference on Mathematical Reasoning in the New Curriculum last September. With over 80 teachers from primary and secondary schools attending, this was an ideal platform to share the iTalk2Learn project and the latest iteration of Fractions Lab. Thinking about teaching fractions The talk, focused on how students…

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Progress update on the Intervention Model

Progress Update Having presented the intervention model that underlies iTalk2Learn during a roundtable discussion at the EARLI SIG 6 & 7 meeting in Rotterdam, the RUB team received some enriching feedback. Many experts in the fields of mathematics education and instructional design attended the roundtable discussion and were extremely positive about iTalk2Learn. To improve things…

Wizard-of-Oz studies for feedback generation

iTalk2Learn partners, Birkbeck College (BBK) and the Institute of Education (IOE), went back to a school in Lancaster to run Wizard-of-Oz studies to investigate how speech can be used to tailor feedback. At IOE and BBK, we were particularly interested in how the affective state of a student can be detected through speech and other interactions with the platform,…

Fractions Lab

Testing Fractions Lab with German students

At the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, we’ve had a very exciting couple of weeks. We’ve taken Fractions Lab into German schools for the first time! Given the differences we had discovered between students in Germany and students in the UK when working with Fractions Tutor, we were very curious to see how German students’ react to this new state…