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The algebra app is a great way to get kids engaged in practicing and learning more about Math. I remember when I was a kid, I could never get enough problems to practice. I enjoyed algebra regardless of whether it was homework or not. This app is a great way to encourage keen students to practice more, but it can also be used by students who need more practice. It is also a great idea to add in OCR so that the app can help users solve difficult equations. It would also be nice to see gamification in the roadmap for this project. I would definitely consider investing in this venture.

Focal Ed is an ingenous application of wearables to the educational sector that will allow teachers to spend more time working with students. Focal Ed is almost like a student tracker. While this might sound controversial, with concerns of violence in schools and other safety issues, it will probably be easy to get consumer and parent buy in for a such a tracker. With Focal Eds functionality, it not only can improve student learning experiences with the ability to trigger help requests, but the reporting can also help improve environmental school issues. For example, if the heat maps produce patterns that students avoid a particular area of the school that might be an opportunity to change that area's function and improve so students will use the area. I would definitely consider investing in Focal Ed.

Hive is a brilliant and timely idea. As almost everyone is looking to move their work online with the Covid-19 pandemic, collaboration and teamwork at a distance are top of mind. As an experienced leader of remote teams, I have often struggled to get teams to engage and collaborate remotely. So often meetings that should be collaborative turn into presentations or status updates. It is clear that many solutions tackle the operational, not the creative side of working as a team remotely. Hive tackles that creative side balancing the playing field for all workers, not just the ones that can make it to the office. I appreciate that Hive also uses personality metrics to help determine appropriate team roles. While I think it is important to acknowledge different personalities and preferences, it would be nice to see this information also used to stretch and continually improve the skills of the users by challenging them to take on uncomfortable roles. I would definitely invest in Hive, as I see much growth potential both within the educational sector and the corporate world.

Over all, very interesting OER. I appreciated that you tried to apply microlearning. However, as you mention the modules were a bit long to be considered microlearning. I think you definitely could have delivered the information in shorter lessons if you selected an appropriate platform. This is one of the reasons that video is the go-to for microlearning, as you can use sound, image, and text to convey a message and pack a lot more information into a shorter time span.

Thank you AI team for the informative and well-organized opportunity forecast. I really appreciated the executive summary at the beginning, as it gives you an idea of what is contained in the website and allows you to decide which sections to focus on. I also thought you did a great job refining your topic and selecting your resources. It was the perfect amount of information. One thing I think cannot be understanding in the discussion on AI/Machine Learning is the ethics. While the OER covered some of the ethical debates, I think it would have been nice to develop it further and consider ethics in the case of adaptive learning.

Hi Manize, You raise good points in regards to the balance of capital and social justice. The fact is many profit-orientated businesses are very concerned about ethics and social justice in new technology and they are leading the discourses on the future of work and technology. Social causes, ethics, and sustainability are firmly embedded in current conceptions of corporate responsibility, as this is being demanded by consumers. I think Open AI fills an important role in this picture, as big businesses can invest in social justice-based AI research as part of meeting their corporate responsibility mandates. In other words, I doubt Open AI will have any troubles raising capital. Another important thing to keep in mind is that not-for-profit does not mean you have little money. It just means that you spend what you make.

Great job XR team! You have created a created OER primer on immersive experience. I particularly enjoyed the healthcare application as I do believe some of the most innovative uses of AR/VR are in that industry. The one bit of critical feedback I would like to give you is that the resource is quite long with a lot of additional media, which detracts from your analysis of the topic. Perhaps consider condensing some of the sections by being more specific around the applications you want to cover. Or you could consider adding an executive summary at the beginning, so users know which sections they may want to focus on.

Great job putting together this report on Superbook! It is a very interesting product, but given the number of smartphone extender products out there, it seems like there is way too many limitations, not enough market, and too much competition. What I really appreciated about your presentation is building the cube like a report card. I found this very easy to follow your thinking and rationale for an investment decision.

Great work team on putting together this presentation. I appreciate the use of Articulate Rise for this topic as it is one of the most responsive authoring programs for mobile devices. That said, it is not a platform that encourages interaction, but I think you managed this well with the use of padlet activities. I really appreciated learning about the SAMR model, as I was not familiar with this prior. I also appreciated your stance that mobile learning is not a solution for all learning contexts and contents. Great job!

Great work Aziza, James, and Ryan. I really appreciated the content distinguishing the difference between differentiation, individualization, and personalized learning as those terms can be hard to tell apart. I also appreciated that you applied personalized learning to a specific context, as I think this illustrated the workings of personalized learning very well. I do have a couple of suggestions. First, the landing page was a bit difficult to read some of the text, as the background picture is quite busy--this introduction sets the stage for your hard work, so make it shine! Finally, I think you can enhance this project with a discussion on privacy, as this is a core concern for any type of technology that utilizes student data. Both Summit and Alt School have come under fire for privacy and ethical reasons.