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Community-driven database to help teachers prepare lessons and tests |
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Score
85%
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4 votes,
Feasibility
90%
Originality
65%
Humour
10% |
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The Problem:
Young teachers rely too much on the book, old teachers just repeat the same thing over and over.
The Social Invention:
I know a very good maths teacher who has a box full of tests, tasks, exercises and problematic questions in the form of yellowish old pieces of paper either hand-written or typed. He has a vast catalogue in his head so when he prepares a test, he just selects some standard exercises and a couple of hard ones for the ambitious. Sometimes he adds mathematical riddles and tasks to the box and his index. Of course - the box is mostly useless without the index, which he keeps only in his memory.
The idea - create a public domain, indexed database of possible test questions, with answers (why not?). Catalogue them according to level, prior knowledge and abilities required to solve them and keywords that describe them (fun, tricky, hard, easier than it seems). Any given teacher of the subject (the database could contain multiple subjects) could just log in, query the database for possible questions for a pop quizz, print and voila!
As for the database being accessible for students - no problem there, either. Just let them enter the answerless mode so they can practise at home and check if they got the solution right (if there are multiple ways to solve a problem, many should be noted). Also - there could be a "check my solution" service with real teachers behind it. A good solution would be added to the database.
I don't consider this a patentable or technological idea - all the technology needed is ready and waiting, there's prior art - the GiB. All it takes is a society of teachers to organize the database.
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I'm a student of computer science hoping to invent something great one day. I specialize in artificial intelligence. In my free time I read fiction and work on personal projects.
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