The classroom as a dashboard

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Abstract
When used in classrooms, personalized learning software allows students to work at their own pace, while freeing up the teacher to spend more time working one-on-one with students. Yet such personalized classrooms also pose unique challenges for teachers, who are tasked with monitoring classes working on divergent activities, and prioritizing help-giving in the face of limited time. This paper reports on the co-design, implementation, and evaluation of a wearable classroom orchestration tool for K-12 teachers: mixed-reality smart glasses that augment teachers' realtime perceptions of their students' learning, metacognition, and behavior, while students work with personalized learning software. The main contributions are: (1) the first exploration of the use of smart glasses to support orchestration of personalized classrooms, yielding design findings that may inform future work on real-time orchestration tools; (2) Replay Enactments: a new prototyping method for real-time orchestration tools; and (3) an in-lab evaluation and classroom pilot using a prototype of teacher smart glasses (Lumilo), with early findings suggesting that Lumilo can direct teachers' time to students who may need it most.
Funding Information
  • National Science Foundation (1530726)

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