Student Conversation Prompting System for Parent Engagement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Parents often face frustration in obtaining insight into their children's daily school activities due to busy schedules and executive function challenges in children with ADHD, Dyslexia, and Autism, leading to inadequate communication about their day.
Innovation Solution
A communication system that enables students to enter limited descriptive entries (GABs) which are reviewed and approved by teachers, then sent to parents, serving as reminders to facilitate conversation about school experiences, incorporating a 'Student-In-The-Loop' approach to promote parent-child interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If parents ask their children about their school day, then parents want to gain insight into their child's activities, but children cannot remember or prioritize what is important to tell due to busy schedules and executive function challenges
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically capturing and storing information about the child's daily activities throughout the school day through sensors, wearables, and school systems. This pre-captured information is then made available to parents, eliminating the need for children to remember and report their activities. The information is prepared and organized in advance, ready for parent review at any time.
2Loss of information
If children with executive function challenges are asked to recount their day, then parents seek understanding of their child's experiences, but the children are neurologically challenged in their ability to remember and recount events
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary layer between the child's experiences and the parent's understanding. Instead of relying on the child's memory and communication abilities, the system acts as a mediator that automatically captures, stores, and presents information about the child's activities. This intermediary system handles the complexity of information retrieval, making it easy for parents to access and discuss their child's day without placing cognitive demands on the child.
3Loss of information
If a communication system captures detailed information about student activities, then parents gain insight into their child's day, but the system complexity and data management requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments information about the child's day into distinct, manageable categories such as academic activities, social interactions, meals, and extracurricular activities. Each segment is captured by appropriate sensors or systems and stored in organized sections. This segmentation allows parents to review specific aspects of their child's day without being overwhelmed by a single mass of undifferentiated information, while the system manages complexity through modular information architecture.
Data Source
AI summary
A system for prompting student engaged conversation, the system receives a student entered limited descriptive entry at a first remote terminal, stores the entry, e.g., in a central database, and sends a notification of the entry to a teacher of the student at a second remote terminal. The system may also send a second notification regarding the entry to a parent of the student at a third remote terminal. The second notification may be triggered by a teacher response or submission in response to the first notification. The first and second notifications may be sent using any of a text, a voicemail, an e-mail, a display message, an application operating at a mobile device, and a program operating a remote terminal.