GOORU
LEARNING NAVIGATOR - a “GPS for Learning”
K12 students above grade-level in Math within three years
Pram
pram@gooru.org
Learning Navigator - a “GPS for Learning”
Honor the Human Right to Education
Learning Navigator
Dr. Prasad “Pram” Ram
Education focuses on destination, i.e., what the student should learn with courses, standards, and assessments
BUT
Education lacks detailed �data on student’s location, i.e., knowledge, skills and dispositions
80% of high school freshman below grade level in urban schools
1.2M
Students drop out of high-school every year (25%)
31%
Students dropout
of college
High-rates of high-school �and college dropouts
Students perform poorly in Math in High-school and College
To Navigate a learner, first Locate them, then
Curate activities, Facilitate practices and Mediate pathways
Navigator - Student Experience
“You have arrived at your destination”
Learning route based on profile and reroute based on performance
Navigator - Educator Experience
Monitor Students, Personalize Instructions and Professionally Develop
Teacher monitor their students progress and performance and can personalize their interventions | Teacher receive suggestions for students based on curriculum and non-cognitive skills performance | Teachers receive suggestions for their own professional development informed by their class performance |
For past 3 years, high-school students using a research prototype of the Navigator called “Navigate Math” achieved 2.8 years of growth in one year
83%
First in family to go to college
82%
Low-income
URBAN EDUCATION
The above results are not from navigator for math, but, from a research prototype called navigate math which also included extensive classroom practices and non-cognitive skills development.
Gooru Labs: Navigator - informed by Practice and backed by Science
Research Collaborative Operationalize Science of Learning with big-data
MISSION CONTROL
DOMAINS
LEVELS
SUBJECTS
Numbers and Ops-Fractions
Operations & Alg. Thinking
Expressions & Equations
Measurement and Data
Probability & Statistics
Number System
Numbers and Ops in Base Ten
THANK YOU
Pram Ram | pram@gooru.org
THANK YOU
Prasad “Pram” Ram | pram@gooru.org
Awards & Recognition
Research Funders
Strategic Elements to achieve the mission
Reinforce each other with positive loops
Learning Navigator
Social
Justice
Science of Learning
Collective Impact
Scale Sustainably
STRATEGIC ELEMENTS
Laddered solution to reach every student
Teacher with a Tablet / Phone
1
School with computer lab
3
Parents with Smartphones
5
2
1-to-1 offline computers
6
Station Rotation Model
4
1-to-1 Devices with broadband
7
LOCALIZED | ACCESSIBLE | ECOSYSTEM
Class with Projector
OUR 3 BELIEFS ABOUT LEARNING
LEARNING BEGINS WITH A TEACHER
LEARNING IS COMPLEX
Real-time data and suggestions with 1-Period View, 1-Course View, and 1-Student View
Digital Learning is digital data from full-spectrum learning. Move the needle with collective impact
LEARNING IS PERSONAL
Operationalize science of learning with data to make route and reroute suggestions
Real-time Data and Suggestions in Classrooms
Operationalize Science of Learning
Digital Data from Full-spectrum Learning
Learning Navigator: Study - Teach - Build
Teachers personalize using real-time data
Teachers use real-time data from student performance to personalize instruction
Students study with performance based Suggestions
Navigator suggests a learning route based on student profile & reroutes based on performance
Educators build other Navigator courses
Educators curate 4.4M open rich-media resources into competency-based courses complete with assessments
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LEARNING NAVIGATOR
Provisional Patent for Learning Navigation Technology
LOCATE
“Skyline” / subject locates mastery in concepts and also track Progress, Portfolio and Preferences
CURATE
5M Learning Activities with Questions, 20,000 Collections & Assessments
Math 4
Math 7
Math 8
Math 6
Math 5
Numbers and Ops-Fractions
Operations & Alg. Thinking
Numbers and Ops in Base Ten
Expressions & Equations
Number System
Measurement and Data
Probability & Statistics
Unit
Lesson
Collections
Assessments
Lesson
Unit
Unit
Navigator Course
Unit 1
2.04 Ordering Negative Numbers
2.04 Number Opposites
2.04 Number Opposites Assessment
Understanding Opposites
2.04 Ordering Numbers & Opposites
2.05 Adding Integers
Two Digit Addition
2.10 Adding Negative Numbers
MEDIATE
Suggest route based on profile and reroute based on performance
FACILITATE
Teachers can monitor, engage in live assessment and personalize instructions
NWEA MAP
Competency Graph with Dependencies
Competency
Crosswalk
Progression
Signature
Metadata
Metadata
Signature Content
<X,Y,Z> Coordinates
Concepts List
X-Y-Z Coordinates
Concept Lists
Crosswalk
Progression
“Latitude-Longitude for Learning”
Extend or Refine the Learning Space in any area of Learning
Metric space
4
7
8
6
5
DOMAINS
LEVELS
SUBJECTS
Numbers and Ops-Fractions
Operations & Alg. Thinking
Expressions & Equations
Measurement and Data
Probability & Statistics
Number System
Numbers and Ops in Base Ten
“Locate the Learner”
Real time updates of the learner’s mastery in competencies
1 Year Ago
6 Months Ago
1 Month Ago
1 Week Ago
Educator-curated collections for every standard
Classroom practiced courses with positive learning outcomes
Average of 20+ quality resources per standard from top 1,000 providers
50+ K12 full year open courses with assessments, 25+ Partner Libraries
Curate Millions of Open Learning Resources Search Engine for Learning
4.4M+ open content across all grades with tools to tag 21st century skills, standards, & rigor
25,000 curated collections and assessments with offline activities and open questions
Develop Navigator Courses
Tagged to competencies and complete with assessments
Unit
Lesson
Collections
Assessments
Playlist of resources
Playlist of questions
Lesson
Unit
Unit
Navigator Course
Learning Objectives
Essential Questions
Aligned to competencies, micro-competencies
Aligned to competencies, concepts, level of rigor
8 machine-scorable item types
Free response items with rubric scoring
Collections include resource types like Interactives, videos, web pages, images, audio, pdf and 9 question types
Framework defines metadata structure for every level - Course, Unit, Lesson, Collection, Assessment, Resources and Questions
Facilitate Classroom Practices with
Monitoring and Live Assessments
The Learning Navigator
Students achieve academic success and develop non-cognitive skills with support from teachers and peers
Using Big-data to operationalize learning science
Classroom Practices
Learners
Catalog
Create New Pathways
Mastery through Evidence
Student Suggest
Route the learner
Deepen Mastery
Revisit prior knowledge
Student Choice
Real-time Assessments
Peer Grading
Cooperative Learning
Goal Setting and Reflection
Update Profile
Compute Metadata
Data Logs
Teaching Practices
Data Science
Principles of Learning
Navigator Informed by Practice and Backed by Science
Board of Directors and Advisors
Prof. Nancy Songer Dean, School of Education, Drexel University
Prof. Kenji Hakuta Professor, School of Education, Stanford University
Prof. Srinath Srinivasa
Data Scientist, Professor & Dean of Research, IIIT-B
Prof. Lav Varshney
Asst. Prof. Dept. of ECE,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Caprice Young Superintendent and CEO of Magnolia Public Schools
Prof. Youngmoo Kim
Director of EXCITE Labs, Prof. Electrical and Computer Engineering Drexel University
Dr. John Seeley Brown Co-Chairman, Deloitte
Center for the Edge, Former head of Xerox PARC
Prof. Zach Pardos
Prof. Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Neal Finkelstein Director of K12 Evaluation Studies, WestEd
Dr. Louise Waters
CEO, Superintendent, Leadership Public Schools
Prof. M.S. Krishnan Ross School of Business, U.Michigan, Ann-Arbor
Dr. Michelle Rodriguez Superintendent, Pajaro Valley Unified School District