“Smile, because it happened.” My address as the student speaker and Class President on the day of my graduation, to an audience of 12,000 students, family members, faculty, and alumni. A memory I will never forget, and a privilege I am grateful to have had.
I dedicated my Masters to building tech for education, namely AppInventor, a platform now used by 6M people to build Android apps without prior coding experience. My specific focus: adding game programming capabilities to appeal to a young, k-12 student audience.
1-on-1 tutoring is awesome but it doesn’t scale. There aren’t enough teachers available to meet demand. AI tutors can offer 1-on-1 learning experiences anytime, anywhere, at minimal cost. This talk describes why we need AI tutors and how to build them.
