“Biblo”

Our project addresses the issue of frequent student AI usage in education, such as doing homework or writing papers. One of the most popular AI apps that students turn to is ChatGPT. This is a problem because students are straying away from academic integrity in favor of quick and easy solutions. Using AI in schoolwork leads to a false perception of the student’s ability to complete tasks, plagiarism, and dependence on AI. This harms the student as they will never fully grasp the concepts taught to them if they use AI for answers. This will indefinitely harm not only the student, but even the teacher that is assessing their capabilities as they can not gauge the student’s true placement. However, AI has also been demonstrated to have positive effects on students, such as adaptive learning features, which can personalize and cater to each individual’s needs. That said, AI should not be fully taken away from students, but there should be limitations to how much AI is allowed. This leads us to our proposed prototype, Biblo, which is essentially like EdPuzzle or Deltamath, but would be adaptive to the student’s level of understanding in a specific topic.

We came up with Biblo because as students ourselves, we’ve seen our peers use and talk about ChatGPT. In fact, we’ve also been users of ChatGPT! However, we noted that abusing the AI system can have serious repercussions in academics, such as the risks of being caught plagiarizing. That’s why we came up with the basic idea of having AI in school to aid students who are struggling, but not hand the students free rein. Our idea evolved from an AI feedback chat bot extension to a system similar to homework apps like EdPuzzle and Deltamath which would have adaptive learning and help students through the usage of hints while actively providing feedback to teachers about the students’ progress. This would help the teacher determine the student’s placement and allow for them to understand what needs to be worked on to maximize their potential.

Our project prototype is as stated above, a learning platform, built through a coding system that teachers can assign questions on. There would be 3 levels of questions such as easy, medium, and hard. This allows for the questions to be customizable based on the needs of the particular student or the class in general. The questions would give students points, which would allow for a personalized skill level depending on the amount of points accumulated. The points system would hopefully motivate and engage students more while also providing tailored needs. In addition to the points system, there would also be 2 different levels of hints given out–one minor and one more direct. The hints would take off points but it would help guide the student who may be stuck on a problem. The system would also have a data storage for each student where questions and points would be recorded. The teacher can then check those records to note any improvements with the data graph and histograms that would accompany it. The system would also provide an equation for the line of best fit in order to try and predict future trends.