Teachers, let me tell you about Lalilo’s AI
You’re an elementary school teacher. You have 24 students with 24 distinct learning styles. They have 24 individual learning goals, 24 sets of strengths, and 24 sets of needs. Your job is to build off those strengths and support those needs. . . for all 24 students. In every subject. Every day.
As a Literacy Specialist and former classroom teacher, I understand first hand how hard it is to be in your shoes. It’s a never ending cycle — teach, assess, analyze data, plan, prep, teach. . . do it all again. What if there was a tool that could help? What if that tool could provide your students with individualized instruction and provide you with the data you need to plan and prep your lessons?
Lalilo is just that.
How does Lalilo work?
Lalilo uses Artificial Intelligence to help you differentiate your literacy instruction and simplify your teaching so you can give your students what they need. Artificial Intelligence means that a computer is programmed to respond in certain ways depending on the actions of users. Our super talented data scientists create mathematical formulas that tell the computer what to do based on how students perform on our exercises. You don’t need to understand exactly how it all works to see how it can help kids, but if you do, you can read more here.
What happens when my students go on Lalilo?
Lalilo’s curriculum is organized into lessons, exercises, and levels like this:
When Sophia goes on her student account, she will work on a lesson based on where she is in our lesson sequence. Lalilo automatically chooses an exercise and a level for her. If Sophia performs well, Lalilo will move her up a level, give her harder content, and move her more quickly through harder exercises. It might look like this:
If Sophia struggles, Lalilo will move her down a level or choose an exercise that will support her in this skill. It might look more like this:
Sophia will continue to practice within this lesson (among a few others) until she “validates” it or reaches an average of 80% success on all her exercises. Once she does, she can unlock other lessons and move on.
What happens when teachers go on Lalilo?
Remember that never ending cycle we talked about? Teach, assess, analyze data, plan, prep, teach. . .do it all again? This is where Lalilo can be your personalized teaching assistant! Lalilo keeps track of your students as they work on exercises. It gathers data for you and packages it into a beautiful, color-coded teacher dashboard. When Sophia works on Lalilo, you see which lessons she worked on, her success rate in those lessons, and the next lessons she has coming up. You will see it like this:
It even breaks down each lesson into individual skills that Sophia practiced and lets you know where she is rocking and where she needs help. You can use all this information to plan for your small groups or your individual conferences, and you can bring the data with you to grade-level or parent meetings. Your principal will be really impressed!
Lalilo thinks like a teacher.
The Lalilo team is working hard to create a machine that mimics the thoughts of a teacher. How do we do it? We take information from teaching and learning experts (including teachers like you) and teach the computer how to think. We program the computer to look for certain things like when a student leaves off the ending of a word or when a student misrepresents a short vowel sound. We teach the computer to look for the same things you look for during your reading groups and conferences, and then we teach the computer how to respond. Of course, a computer will never take the place of highly skilled, talented, and experienced teachers like you, but it sure can help you reach all your students in a more efficient way — and maybe even save you time so you can eat your lunch, too :).
What do you think we should teach our AI next? Let us know in the comments below!
