Share Paper: ProblemPal: Generating Autonomous Practice Content in Real-Time with Voice Commands and Amazon Alexa

  1. Neelay Trivedi, Students Coding Schools, Watchung Hills Regional High School, United States

Abstract: According to a report by K-12 Market Advisors, teachers spend an average of twelve hours weekly searching for instructional materials and making practice content for students. This amounts to over $1.75 billion in annual costs for online content subscriptions and instructional materials. At the same time, the increasing need for personalized learning has rendered many of these instructional materials too general and unspecific. To solve both these problems and save teachers time and money, this study involved the development of ProblemPal, an Amazon Alexa Skill that enables teachers to automatically generate practice content with voice commands. Alexa is a popular ...