I-Corps: Lewis Dots 2.0

该项目旨在进一步开发Lewis Dots iOS应用程序，扩展其功能。教育需要改进课堂上的共享和协作工具，该团队正在努力开发一个原型，以测试他们的应用程序的其他功能，这些功能利用协作学习、即时元数据反馈和游戏化学习。Lewis Dots的发明为用户提供了一种触摸屏的化学体验。这项技术的未来发展计划使一个更直观的工具来交流化学概念，允许教师与学生交流，也允许学生与教师和彼此之间进行交流。项目团队的方法从教师和学生的角度将课堂学习视为一种用户体验。在K-12或高等教育的学生中，很少有无处不在的交互方法来交流化学。此外，电子设备和媒体的涌入不断地轰炸学生对主题材料的关注和参与。如果这个项目成功，该团队希望Lewis Dots应用程序将通过提供一个新的交流平台来加强学生的化学学习。随着教育技术市场经历了大量用于独立学习和评估/测试的现有解决方案，该项目可能会被证明是教育技术市场的一项颠覆性创新，使学生能够更好地向老师和彼此学习。

This project is designed to further develop the Lewis Dots iOS app, expanding its features. There is an educational need for improved sharing and collaboration tools in the classroom and the team is working to develop a prototype to test additional features of their app that harness collaborative learning, instant metadata feedback, and gamified learning. The Lewis Dots invention provides user with a touch-screen experience of chemistry. Future development of this technology plans to enable a more visual tool for communicating chemistry concepts, allowing teachers to communicate with students, but also students to communicate with teachers and amongst each other. The project team's approach considers learning in the classroom as a user experience from both the teacher and student perspectives. There are few ubiquitous interactive methods to communicate chemistry amongst K-12 or higher-education students. Furthermore, the influx of gadgets and media into students' lives consistently bombard the focus and engagement of students toward subject material. If this project is successful, the team hopes that the Lewis Dots app will enhance the learning of chemistry amongst students by offering a new platform for communication. With the education technology market experiencing a glut of existing solutions for independent study and assessment/testing, this project may prove to be a disruptive innovation in the education technology market, allowing students to better learn from teachers and from each other.