- Teachers aim to connect topics to real world application - 4 - **Children questions, classroom discussion is best to gauge understanding - 4** - Pushing them to think - 3 - Very little time for teachers, syllabus pressure - 3 - **Can't reach all students. Many don't clearly share when they're having difficulty. Currently only relying on facial expressions - 3** - Difficulty in identifying copied work or mindless procedure following - 3 - Creating interest in children is the hardest part - 3 - Current ed tech products don't consider teacher opinions as much - 2 - Many children are not good at communicating ideas - 2 - Learning for the test and not for learning. New questions can alleviate this and gauge thinking but hard to keep coming up with new questions - 2 - Correcting notebooks is a pain before class - 1 - Infrastructure challenges of using computers in the classroom - 1 - Importance of conceptual understanding - 1 - Looked for technology solution as well - Parents don't like too much tech usage - they also complain about too much work when you use technology - 1 - Parents compare between schools - they want content driven learning - 1 - Freedom and flexibility for the teacher is important - 1 - Classroom where children communicate and talk more is better - 1 - Verbal communication as an option for children - 1 - Concepts are being taught in the wrong age - 1 - Visual learning can be helpful to spark that aha moment - 1 - But visual learning can kill imagination and give misconception also - 1 - Science history is also important - 1 - Reasoning questions before memorisation happens can reveal gaps - 1 - Currently there's no technology that allows teachers to customise the types of questions and the questions they want - 1 - Allow children to create things - 1 - Homework is merely a refresher to get children to open the book - 1 - Open book exams with challenging questions could get children to think - 1 - Stronger understanding doesn't necessarily go against the existing exam system. It can even lead to better results - 1 - Knowing if children understand is critical because topics build on one another - 1 - Lot of incorrect information available online - 1 - There's often a lot of indiscipline in the classroom which is frustrating - 1 - Children like new technology and things like that - 1 About Product - Good children will thrive with the tool but may not work for everyone - 3 - Where are the questions coming from - 2 - Pilot and demo testing rather than just presentations. Teachers often have scepticism - 1 - Independent learning can happen with this tool - 1 Other - Every teacher without fail has their eyes light up when they hear "the best way to know if you know a topic is when you try to teach it"