Meet Ada in Action: A First Session With “Phil”

This is a recorded session with Ada—our steampunk math tutor—in action with a brand new student: Phil.

This isn’t a demo reel. It’s a live, imagined use case showing Ada doing what she was designed to do: guide students through real curriculum objectives and keep track of it all.


Here’s what you’ll see in the video:


🧠 First Encounter: Ada Meets Phil

Ada starts by identifying Phil and creating a new learner profile. This isn’t just for show—this step kicks off an actual session ID and memory record, stored securely in our backend.


📚 Curriculum Alignment: Utah State Standards

Phil’s learning goals are set by referencing the Utah State Core Mathematics Curriculum. Ada doesn’t guess—she searches the indexed curriculum, selects goals appropriate to Phil’s grade, and loads them for tracking.


📈 Real Progress: Goals Saved and Tracked

During the session, Ada:

  • Logs the student’s goals
  • Tracks which were introduced, practiced, and mastered
  • Summarizes the session’s outcome

All of this is recorded in a MySQL database, structured for easy integration with teacher-facing reporting systems. Teachers can view real-time progress summaries or generate end-of-week reports showing exactly where a student stands.



This is what a real, working AI tutor looks like—not a chatbot guessing at answers, but an adaptive, curriculum-aware guide that builds lasting learning records and feeds real data to educators.

Whether you’re a teacher, tech director, or parent looking for serious AI support in the classroom—this is worth a look.

Responses

  1. marcchavez Avatar

    I’d like to use the interface but I can see no place on the site to do that. But I have not checked in a couple of weeks.

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    1. Steve Jepperson Avatar

      Figuring out the proper delivery vehicle is the big remaining question.
      I imagine it is a python object that runs in a browser.
      Optimally it presents a front-end like the DiD interface, with some kind of digital blackboard for visualizations, graphs, plots etc.
      I am about to set up a test lab in a local school setting to test what features are really needed or wanted.
      To date, I am basically using the out of the box APIs (particularly Hume) I’d be happy to send you the prompts if you what to explore your own solution.
      And, if you have an Idea, I’m all ears.

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