SpeakSchool
Creators: Jacky, Akmal and Muhammad
School: Middle School Students from I.S. 98 Bay Academy
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Project Themes: Education
About this Project
In our modern day life, it can be hard to communicate to schools and give feedback for things they could do better in. SpeakSchool has a way to help through the use of AI questioning. This feature uses AI generated questions that you can answer, once you answer, the answers are saved. When you are finished answering all the questions, you click submit and the app sends your answers to schools.
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Professional Feedback
The project is well thought out, and the fact that the students identified such a significant issue that actually affects their peer's quality of education is commendable. The app currently uses Figma for prototyping, and for the future step, I recommend using AI tools like Replit to easily deploy the prototype make it available for everyone! Next steps were also well analyzed and planned, especially the offline mobile support aspect, since it would enhance user experience significantly. Overall, great work!
This is a really great idea, and I think this could provide valuable feedback and help students feel more empowered in shaping their school experience. I work at Google and we have something similar internally called Googlegeist. They do big yearly surveys, and also have lightweight weekly surveys similar to your SpeakSchool idea.
One idea would be to use notification to prompt students to provide feedback at the end of each class or assembly. They could report how confusing or informative the lesson was, and how engaging it was. You could also have daily feedback on the quality of the lunch, say. Then you could do longer surveys every week or month on broader topics.
One thing to think about is how to get students engaged so they will actually honestly fill out the surveys. You could have some sort of gamification to reward people who regularly provide feedback. For example, every 50 responses they could get a small prize like free ice cream in the cafeteria. But, you would have to try to distinguish honest feedback from kids randomly filling in the form. It's possible that could be done with outlier detection, possibly with the help of AI. But, this is a challenging technical problem.
Another way to incentivize responses is for the teachers and administrators to regularly report on the trends they see in the feedback and what they are doing to make improvements in response. Students will only be willing to provide honest feedback if they see that it's causing change. Your app, of course, could analyze the trends and generate the summary reports.
Anyway, I love the idea, and your slick presentation was well done.
One idea would be to use notification to prompt students to provide feedback at the end of each class or assembly. They could report how confusing or informative the lesson was, and how engaging it was. You could also have daily feedback on the quality of the lunch, say. Then you could do longer surveys every week or month on broader topics.
One thing to think about is how to get students engaged so they will actually honestly fill out the surveys. You could have some sort of gamification to reward people who regularly provide feedback. For example, every 50 responses they could get a small prize like free ice cream in the cafeteria. But, you would have to try to distinguish honest feedback from kids randomly filling in the form. It's possible that could be done with outlier detection, possibly with the help of AI. But, this is a challenging technical problem.
Another way to incentivize responses is for the teachers and administrators to regularly report on the trends they see in the feedback and what they are doing to make improvements in response. Students will only be willing to provide honest feedback if they see that it's causing change. Your app, of course, could analyze the trends and generate the summary reports.
Anyway, I love the idea, and your slick presentation was well done.
