Education technology (EdTech) is one of the most important ways of improving society. There are currently over 50 million students in elementary and secondary schools in the United States. EdTech has democratized the entire process of receiving a formal education, serving a larger and more diverse population. As the digital revolution begins to affect younger and younger students, education must adapt to students' varying learning styles. Structured lifelong learning is becoming much more common with the rise in online education platforms such as Coursera and Udemy. There are still many other areas within education that are ripe for innovation and huge growth in the coming year.
We are looking for projects that use technology to democratize access to information and make knowledge accessible across border and different learning styles. A project could take after a similar problem as MegaCampus is tackling in shifting the focus of education to the current and future needs of the labor market by allowing a student to get a profession in dmeand in the labor market in 6-12 months online. Or, instead use an AI chatbot to provide free college guidance to students and help colleges recruit students at scale (AdmitHub). Even if you choose to work on something completely different, it will still make an incredible difference in the education system and improve students' ability to learn and for everyone to become lifelong learners.
- The Internet for Education: How Duolingo Teaches Millions Every Day with Nathan from Duolingo
- Saturday — 10:00 am - 10:30 am, Huang 018
- Nathan Dalal works to make high quality education more accessible for millions of people. At Duolingo, Nathan works to improve learning on the Grammar team. He focuses on a new personalized learning initiative called Smart Tips, which categorizes mistakes that users make across all language tracks on Duolingo, and provides learners at all levels with just-in-time feedback to accelerate their learning. At Stanford (BS/MS CS '19), Nathan conducted computing and education research and was a member of the CS198 section leading community. He is excited to show hackers how to get involved in revolutionizing education today.
- EdTech Office Hours + Q&A with Nathan from Duolingo
- Saurday 10:30 am - 11:30 am, Huang 018
- Education Grand Prize
- Sponsor: TreeHacks
- Prize: Auking Mini Projector for each team member
- Immersive tech Including VR and AR, immersive tech has the potential to transform field-based and hands-on educational experiences.
- Early childhood learning A child's first five years are crucial for physical, intellectual, and social-emotional development, making this topic area incredibly impactful.
- Coding and technology While this topic does include tools to teach children to code, there are many other future applications in this space such as algorithmic thikning, spatial reasoning, and quantiative analysis.
- Learning management systems Learning management systems are the center of many students' experiences in traditional schools and continue to help studnets manage their coursework online.
- Language learning With a numerous approaches to learning new languages, there many opportunities to continue improving the process of becoming polyglots.
- Online courses Online courses have been an integral aspect in democratizing education and will continue to grow as internet access increases.
- Duolingo datasets: English prompts + translations and dependency parsing set
- Beyond the Pail: Beyond the Pail targets students K-5 to develop their spatial-kinetic learning skills with an Adruino, breadboard panel, and LCD display.
- Slip: Slip establishes a two-way mapping between class videos and slides to create a seamless transition between the two.
- Lingo: Lingo is a Messenger bot that pairs people who want to chat in a certain language at their skill level.
- MemBuddy: MemBuddy is an SMS application that converts information into pertinent questions so that the user is able to study a certain subject through texting at any time.