Coaching Questions Group 14

To help your group and the teachers prepare for the tutor meetings, we would like you to answer a few questions in between sessions. The following paragraphs list the questions for each of the weeks, please write you answers directly underneath the questions.

After the kick-off - Week 1

• What are you expecting to learn during the Robots course?

Learning about AI and psychology, how to motivate children to study. How we can implement AI to learn through playing. Interaction between a system and children.

• What kind of coaching do you expect?

Asking critical questions about our project. Interfering when the project is going in the wrong direction.

• What kind of coaching would you prefer?

Proper answers when we have questions. Interfering when the project is going in the wrong direction.

• What will the coaches expect of you?

A nice finished project. USE aspects in the project. Enthousiasm and initiative from the group.

After the first tutor meeting - Week 2

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

We learned that we were doing to much at the same time, we wanted to make a quizing system and show how it would be put in a smart home. Now we decided that we want to focus only on the quizing system. Furthermore we learned that our subject description was not elaborative enough.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

We will extent our subject description and only focus on a quizing system.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?
  • We decided on a programming language
  • We researched the current state of the art of the quizing system and added a few extra articles
  • We extended the subject description
  • We updated the planning
  • We made a UML diagram to show the structure of the quizing system

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

After the second tutor meeting - Week 3

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

It is hard for a computer program to learn how to categorize questions and pick the right question to ask a child. It would be better if we could find an already existing program where we can add to. The tutoring system may not be new enough, so think of something to do as a new extra, maybe blended learning. Create a personal planning.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

We changed our idea a bit again, we will focus on blended learning now and try to incorporate this in an actual classroom by doing a small experiment. We found an open source program that is like Kahoot, but not as fancy, we will try to add onto this. The program will now not be personal anymore, but besides that it has the same idea as before, it is now based on the average knowledge level of a whole class. This way we can 'filter' the students that are far above or below the average and give them extra assignments or more help from the teacher.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

We have made a personal planning. We have started writing letters to the school/parents but we have to wait for the tutormeeting to ask how we need to do this exactly. (For the experiment). We have found the open source code for a quizzing program named Toohak. We have started changing Toohak so that it can generate questions itself and so that it can 'cluster' students properly.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

We have some questions about how we have to handle the experiment (letters/informed consent forms/etc.).

After the third tutor meeting - Week 4

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

Our idea needs to be more concrete as we are still too much all over the place. Think of a problem and give arguments for your project.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

We have settled on a concrete idea and found a didactic theory which supports it.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

We have searched for a lot of literature to support our idea and have started programming. There is also already a rough draft of the questionnaire we want to send.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

Pitching our idea in a clear way, some questions about how to hand out the questionnaire.

After the fourth tutor meeting - Week 5

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

That it would be a more interesting idea to focus on individualisation in the classroom, as a simple classification program is not new enough. Also really think of the reason why we do this.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

Instead of letting the program ask questions on the average class level, it will now ask each individual child questions on their own level. This was not that much of a problem as the idea remains the same.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

We have created and send our questionnaire to multiple elementary school teachers.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

We came up with a clear reason, which is that we want to offer individualized education to young children which will take a load of the elementary school teachers.

After the fifth tutor meeting - Week 6

• What is the most interesting thing you learned in the coaching meeting of the previous week and why?

We have to move forward with the survey, get a clear goal with the survey and make sure there will be enough participants. We have to get a clear view of how we want to calculate the scores and how the classifications will follow.

• How did you incorporate coaches' feedback of the previous meeting in your project?

We made sure to distribute our survey to even more people. We decided our score equation and that we want to classify using simple thresholds.

• What new activities did you undertake during this week? What did you learn from these activities?

We started no new activities besides the presentation, we finished everything else.

• What did you do to prepare for next week's meeting?

We finished the program and prepared a presentation.

After the final presentation - Week 7

• What are the major steps of the project? Please list
  • Pick a topic that is interesting enough
  • Do an excessive desk research
  • Design a program based on this research
  • Make a survey to get the opinions of experts

• What is the most important thing you learned in this project? (e.g .about design or working in groups, etc)

Design choices also have to be based on a study.

• What do you wish you had spent more time on or done differently?

Take tutors advice with grain of salt, so we would have been able to get a lot more work done on the actual program. (Do not keep changing the idea)

• What was the most enjoyable part of this project? Please explain why

Having a working program at the end that we fully created ourself. This is very satisfying.

• What was the least enjoyable part of this project? Please explain why

The fact that the tutors kept making it clear that what we were doing was not exciting/new enough for them. Constructive criticism in itself is of course okay, but we would have liked a little more guidance on what we could have done to structurally improve our product and a little more guidance on what design process we could have used. Perhaps, this guidance would also have prevented us from changing our idea several times in order to please the tutors.