Kiddom's AI Features
Kiddom’s AI Digital Assistants
Kiddom’s AI-enabled core curricula keeps instructional power firmly in teachers’ hands so they can effectively utilize resources, reduce mental load, and focus on the critical task of propelling student growth. These tools help teachers streamline their processes so they can focus on what matters most, their students.
Importantly, all of our AI tools are exclusively teacher-facing. The AI tools are designed to ease common teacher workflows and intentionally have built-in checkpoints for teachers to review any content and scoring delivered to students. These tools are designed to make teachers’ lives easier, not to replace them.
What are Kiddom’s AI Digital Assistants?
Kiddom currently has four AI tools available to teachers:
- AI-generated Feedback
- Auto-grading
- Practice Problem Generator
- Lesson Clipper
Each of these assistants provides teachers with ways to simplify their workload.
AI-Generated Feedback
This tool is designed to streamline, if not revolutionize, the way feedback is provided on student assignments. This tool allows teachers to generate feedback for students quickly and consistently, ensuring that more students receive valuable feedback and reducing the amount of time teachers spend crafting unique messages for each student. It utilizes the deep learning capabilities of generative AI to analyze student work and generate initial, nuanced feedback tailored to the specifics of each assignment, learning goals, teacher preferences, and student prior knowledge. Being cognizant of the potential risks of exposing students to AI-generated feedback, we designed it to support teachers in providing feedback. Our model suggests feedback that serves as a foundation for teachers to review, edit, and personalize. This process ensures that the feedback is not only delivered rapidly and effectively, but also enriched with the teacher's expertise and understanding of individual student needs. By significantly reducing the burden of crafting feedback from scratch, educators are empowered to devote more attention to fostering personalized learning environments.
Auto-grading
This tool was developed to score student essay-type questions and is designed to understand and interpret the nuances of open-ended responses, drawing on several inputs including teacher notes, exemplary responses, and rubrics to make accurate scoring predictions. By integrating these diverse sources of information, the AI system can align its scoring with the specific criteria and expectations set by educators, ensuring a high level of consistency and fairness in evaluation. The score is merely suggested to the educator, and they can choose to accept or reject it. Any rejection is then used to course-correct the model to better predict how a teacher would score the given student response.
Practice Problem Generator
This tool is designed to enrich the teaching and learning experience. It is capable of analyzing a lesson plan and, from its contents, generating a set of questions in various formats, including multiple choice, multi-select, open response/essay, and short answer questions (the tool provides answers to multiple choice and multi-select questions; however, open response and short answer rubrics are not provided). These assignments can help educators in effectively assessing students' understanding and retention of the material without investing the time and effort involved in test and quiz preparation, especially when these question sets are lacking or not provided within the bundled curriculum. This is especially valuable for students who need additional practice or opportunities to demonstrate fluency after the core lesson. The tool is designed to ensure that the questions are closely aligned with the objectives and key concepts of the lesson plan, offering an on-demand evaluation method and the opportunity for additional practice.
Lesson Clipper
Kiddom recognizes that plans sometimes change for teachers. Maybe there is an assembly or a fire drill, or maybe you want to build in some time to review for tomorrow’s quiz. This is often difficult to do with bundled curricula. Teachers want to ensure that their students are getting the fullness of a lesson, even if it has to be shortened. This tool is designed to address a common challenge faced by educators—the need to adjust lesson plans into shorter, more manageable durations without compromising the integrity and objectives of the curriculum. The tool uses artificial intelligence to compress lessons to approximately 30 minutes, focusing on learning goals, thus allowing educators to maximize the impact of their lessons within limited time frames. Before implementing the new lesson, teachers have the opportunity to see the compressed lesson output, review what changes were made, and then further customize it with in-Kiddom editing functionality to create a truly exceptional, abbreviated lesson. Note about Lesson Clipper: this tool only adjusts the lesson plan within Kiddom and does not impact the slide presentations for the lesson.
Where are Kiddom’s AI Tools?
Kiddom’s AI feature package is not included with the curricula but can be purchased separately and easily added to your materials. Currently, the tools work for Grades 3-12 with IM® K-12 and IM® v.360, and Grades 3-8 with Open Up Resources Mathematics. There are plans to roll out these to other curricula in the future.
If your school or district has this feature turned on, each of the tools can be found embedded in Kiddom in various locations:
- AI-generated Feedback can be found when opening an assignment to grade.
Essay Auto-grading can also be found when opening an assignment with a written response portion.
Practice Problem Generator can be found when opening an activity with student-facing questions. Currently, this is not available for assessments but will work for any activity within a lesson plan.
Lesson Clipper can be found by opening the main page of any lesson.
