TREKAI

For Teachers by Teachers

DR. ARTHUR LEVINE

Former President of Teacher’s College

Columbia University

Social institutions mirror the economic paradigms in which we live.

THE EVOLUTION OF RETAIL & EDUCATION…

NOT

PERSONAL

HIGHLY

PERSONAL

HIGHLY

SCALABLE

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Industrial Economy

Retail: Big Box Retailer

Education: Large School District

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Information Economy

Retail: Amazon

Education: TBD

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Agrarian Economy

Retail: Local General Store

Education: Private Tutor

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NOT

SCALABLE

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HORIZON SCAN OF AI TECHNOLOGIES

HORIZON

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AN OF AI

LLMs

LLM Agents

Multi-Agentic

Systems

C

ausal

Causal AI

HORIZON SCAN OF AI TECHNOLOGIES

HORIZON

S

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AN OF AI

LLMs

LLM Agents

Multi-Agentic

Systems

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ausal

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What is an Agent?

Agents are AI systems which contain the following at varying levels of competency:

Have a distinct role or objective

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Have access to outside tools

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Perceive their environment

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Process the outside information and

take action

Why Agent v. Multi-Agent

System (MAS)?

MAS allow each individual agent to specialize for a specific tasks.

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Emergent intelligence come from agents working together.

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MAS breaks complex problems into smaller more easily solvable tasks.

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Think about MAS Agents as employees in a large company

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BACKGROUND: AGENT(S)

3 YR VISION - MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM

We simulated a simplified multi-agent learning experience for three fictitious

students in Fall ‘24

3 YR VISION

MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM SIMULATION RESULTS

Number of Lesson Plan Iterations

Days to Mastery

The multi-agent system simulation appropriately personalized the experience by student with expected results. We plan to test this system with live students in the next month.

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MULTI-AGENTIC TEACHER INTERFACE

Examples from the POC

trekai.org/forschools

How should we think about AI?

Research on AI and Education

AI AND YOUR BRAIN

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html

Your Brain on ChatGPT

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

THIS IS NOT

EDUCATION

THIS LACKS

EDUCATIONAL

CONTEXT

THIS LACKS

STUDENT CONTEXT

Research on LLMS in Education

https://documents1.worldbank.org/cura ed/en/099548105192529324/pdf/IDU-c09f40d8-9ff8-42dc-b315-591157499be7.pdf

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STRENGTHS

Fantastic Conversational Abilities

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Creative and

Engaging

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Dynamic

Lack of Source of Truth

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Not Contextualized to the Needs of the

Student

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Lack the ability to “coach” a student or engage the user in actual learning

WEAKNESSES

STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES OF GENERIC LLMS

Leveraging insights to improve understanding of what we don’t know

Prompting for frictionless teacher experience

Providing LLMs with a knowledge base – a source of truth

Biblical Worldview

Prompting for Socratic

approach

MITIGATING THE WEAKNESSES OF GENERIC LLMS

TO PROVIDE POSITIVE USER EXPERIENCES

trekai.org/forschools

LEVERAGING LLMS FOR TEACHER IMPACT

Email Writer

Rubric Generator

Worksheet Generator

Vocabulary Stories

Email Polisher

Question Generator

Lesson Plan Generator

Question Generator from a Text

Text Leveler

Directions Polisher

Math Word Problems

Essential Question Generator

Project Based Learning Generator

AI Resistant Assignment Generator

Spiritual Responsiveness

Cultural Responsiveness

Academic Responsiveness

Social Emotional Responsiveness

Blooms Assessment Labeler

Standards Assessment Labeler

AI Assessment Rotator (Involve AI in the

Assessment or Make it AI resistant)

AI Assessment Generator

Exit Ticket Generator

Formative Assessment Generator

Common Student Questions

Brainstorm

Debate

Tutor

Journal

Study Vocab

Rubric – Holistic

Rubric – Detailed

Rubric – Elementary

Chat with a Historical Fictional Character

Chat with YouTube Video

Interactive Stories

World Language Practice Chat

Chat Insights

Mood Scanner

Social Emotional Alerts

Insights

Teacher Tools

Activities

(For Students & Teachers)

TrekAI – An Example 1

TrekAI – An Example 1

TrekAI – An Example 2

TrekAI – An Example 2

TrekAI – An Example 2

TrekAI – AN EXAMPLE 3

TrekAI – AN EXAMPLE 3

15%

25%

2%

94%

15% grade improvement for students experiencing difficulty

25% improvement in the distribution of As and Bs

2% hallucination rate

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94% of students agreed that “Using TrekAI to study for finals improved their grades”

01 Dec

08 Dec

15 Dec

22 Dec

CHAT USAGE BY DAY IN DECEMBER

STUDENTS SPEAK

TrekAI

Derek Wilson, D.Ed.Min

Director of Innovation

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TrekAI

Ethos School

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DWilson@TrekAi.org

Socratic in

Nature

Contextualized to

each student

Resists

Plagiarism

Safeguards for

Schools

Knowledge Base to

reduce Hallucinations

Tools for

Teachers

TrekAI

Dr. Arthur Kordon

Former R&D Lead for Dow Chemical

1990 Dissertation Title: “A Hierarchical Multivariable Self-Tuning Regulator”

AI will not replace Humans. Humans who use AI will replace humans who don’t.

LIVE DEMO

Rispens, S. (2023, October 4). More college students using ChatGPT to supplement learning, report finds. EdScoop. https://edscoop.com/mcgraw-hill-survey-chatgpt-social-media/

The Week. (2023, August 12). Artificial intelligence goes to school: AI is transforming education from grade school to grad school and making take-home essays obsolete. https://theweek.com/education/1025698/artificial-intelligence-goes-to-school

Galileo. (2023, November). LLM Hallucination Index. www.rungalileo.io

WHAT DO STUDENTS THINK ABOUT LLMS

80% of students report using ChatGPT and other social media outlets with their studies¹

80%

ChatGPT 4 still hallucinates at a 23% rate³

95% of students said their grades improved after studying with ChatGPT²

95%

23%