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Education Technology

Learning tools built around real African classrooms, not an ideal classroom with perfect internet and one device per student.

CONTEXT

Why this question looks different from here.

Class size, language, teacher support, device access, and connectivity can change from one school to the next. Useful education technology should help teachers and learners in those conditions instead of importing a single idea of how learning works.

CORE QUESTIONS

A few places we could begin.

  1. 01Which adaptive approaches improve learning without narrowing education to test performance?
  2. 02How can useful digital tools work across shared, low-cost, and intermittently connected devices?
  3. 03What evidence should be required before an AI tutor is used with children?

ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

A useful result cannot excuse a harmful process.

Any work involving learners must protect children, include educators, respect privacy, work for disabled learners, and show real evidence of benefit.

Read our ethics approach

PROJECTS + OUTPUTS

No work to show here yet.

Sevenbitlabs has not started a public project in this area. When that changes, we will share who is doing the work, how it is funded, what method they are using, and what safeguards are in place.

COLLABORATION NEED

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We want to hear from educators, learning scientists, schools, ministries, and accessibility researchers with questions worth testing.

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