MIT Solve

Solution Overview

Solution Name

Brazilian Smart Education

One-line solution summary.

An application that uses artificial intelligence to cross-reference students' academic data and produces personalized homework

Elevator pitch

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What is your solution?

The solution is an application intended for the production of personalized homework. Educators will receive housework from their students and post responses on each student's page in the app. The AI software will calculate each student's hits and errors, allowing the algorithm to choose questions from a question database with this information and set up a custom homework assignment. The Intelligent Artificial of Limited Memorie will perform this process since this is one of the most capable of storing data and making decisions from past data. It is widely used in streaming services to suggest new actions to users based on previous actions of these users.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

The difficulty of meeting the individual learning needs of students,being a problem of national scale in public education,which affects millions of students.These factors that contribute to the problem are the high number of students inside the classrooms,which makes it impossible to follow up,and the standardization of pedagogical activities,which does not consider the particularities of learning of students as gender.The consequences are difficulty in keeping up with more complex issues and school dropout.References:"The extraordinarily high relationship between the number of students per teacher in Ibero-American countries,such as Brazil,reveals the challenging working conditions that many countries face.With full classes,the time teachers can devote to supporting students is severely limited.''(Andreas Schleicher:Director of education at the Organization for Economic Development Cooperation),"Boys and girls work differently.This is the product of the combination of biological and cultural.Our society values the standard of the 'quiet',who is always seated,who does not question.This is an aspect that needs to be reviewed.We seek a pattern of a student,of person, which sometimes does not correspond to the uniqueness of individuals,nor their true cognitive profile",reflects Nelly Narcizo de Souza,coordinator of the Graduate Program in Education in the CasaGrande Institute.

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

The solution is directed to students in vulnerable situations that make up Brazilian public education, who have pedagogical helplessness due to the precariousness of the public education system in Brazil. The solution will address the learning gap based on students' mistakes, for example, a student who misses many multiplication questions in basic mathematics, but hits many addition questions will receive a homework assignment with more multiplication questions, so that the student can train the subjects that have the greatest difficulty and not have their task corrected and returned without further analysis.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

A small survey was conducted at the educational institution with approximately 30 students.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improving learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on (Learning)

Our solution's stage of development:

Concept: An idea being explored for its feasibility to build a product, service, or business model based on that idea

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

The project is in the conceptual phase with still little structuring.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Teresina, PI, Brazil

Team Lead:

Gisele Veloso Gonçalves Guimarães