Noodle Factory

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10/2021
Noodle Factory

Noodle Factory

Noodle Factory
Learning to learn
AI Teaching Assistant providing personalised one-on-one tutoring for students.

Noodle Factory is an AI-powered platform that automates exam prep and tutoring. It helps educators to scale by providing contextualized AI tutoring and AI marking. Using an intuitive interface, students receive instant, personalized feedback, and tutoring, through interactive dialogue, without the need for educators to be directly involved in the process.

Age groups 
High School
Tertiary Education
Professional education
Languages 
English
Platform 
Browser-based
Registration 
Required
Offline play 
Internet required
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Pedagogy
Educational Quality
Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive
Active
A chat-based learning bot makes independent practice and learning more personal and that way meaningful and interesting. There are several options for how to learn - reading, multiple-choice questions, open text, etc.
Rehearse
Construct
Students' success is based on the ability to adapt knowledge that is delivered in the chat. The provided information is quizzed until correct, and the learner can get instant feedback on their performance also on the open-ended questions.
Linear
Non-linear/Creative
A personally defined learning path can be defined by creating a starting test. Badges and other gamification elements help with keeping up motivation.
Individual
Collaborative
Noodle Factory Bot allows passing through the content without interacting with other users. It is built for individual practice and automatic grading. However, there is a chance to send automatically graded open-ended questions back to the teacher for review.

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

Noodle Factory is flexible for many different subjects and allows creating very interesting learning paths.
The AI works great with topics and courses with plenty of material that needs to be learned by heart.
Automatic grading significantly reduces the teacher's time and gives instant feedback for students.
Using chat is fluent and natural for the students.

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

Students are encouraged to express themselves in a variety of ways.
Practice source criticality and learn to evaluate your own and others' ways of working and producing information, including various search services and databases.
Enhance students' understanding of the use and function logic of various devices, software and services.
Strengthening cultural literacy as well as environmental literacy.
Enhancing the students' literacy skills by familiarizing them with the types of texts
Students are guided to deepen their multi-literacy by expanding the range of texts in all subjects.
Guiding students through the use of key search services, experimenting with different tools, and performing small-scale intelligence activities on various topics and topics of interest.
Students are guided and encouraged to take responsibility for themselves, others, and everyday life.
Pupils will be instructed to see the impact of regularly performed tasks on progress and to identify their strengths and development needs.
Practicing ways for concentration and staying focused, and guiding the student in the use of technology and other tools in their studies.
Making observations and practicing sensitivity, retrieving rich information, and critically examining the issue at hand.
Thinking skills are developed by creating diverse opportunities for independent and collective problem-solving, argumentation, reasoning and drawing conclusions, and for recognizing interactions and interrelationships between systems and thus for systemic thinking.
Students are encouraged to use ICT on their own initiative in a variety of learning tasks and to choose the appropriate working methods and tools for different tasks.
Students are encouraged to take responsibility for setting learning goals, planning work, and evaluating their own work process and progress.
Students are guided to identify and consciously develop their own learning and learning strategies.
The various ways of building knowledge are explored together and students are encouraged to bring out their own experiences and to reflect on their relevance to their thinking.
Strengthen the active role of students in the learning process and create the conditions for positive experiences and emotions to support learning.
Students will be guided through the diverse acquisition and production of knowledge and the diverse use of information resources as a basis for exploratory and creative work.
Students are instructed in the appropriate use of various communication channels and styles.
Students are taught to understand the principles of technology, to practice responsible use of it, and to develop and model technological ideas.
Students are instructed to identify the most natural ways to learn and pay attention to their own learning habits.
Students deepen their skills and take advantage of what they have learned outside of school. They will gain an understanding of how ICT can be used in the study of different subjects, in further studies and working life, and in social activities and influence.

Soft skills learning goals

Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability
Practicing communication through different channels
Learning to plan and organize work processes
Practicing decision making
Practicing versatile ways of working
Connecting subjects learned at school to skills needed at working life
Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts, from vernacular to academic
Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
Practicing to use information independently and interactively
Building common knowledge of technological solutions and their meaning in everyday life
Using technology resources for problem solving
Using technological resources for finding and applying information
Practicing memorizing skills
Learning to notice causal connections
Practicing persistent working
Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
Developing problem solving skills
Practicing to notice causal connections
Practicing strategic thinking
Learning to face failures and disappointments
Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
Learning to build information on top of previously learned
Encouraging to build new information and visions
Learning to combine information to find new innovations
Practicing to notice links between subjects learned
Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us
Supporting student to build their own linguistic and cultural identity
Using technology as a part of explorative and creative process
Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
Creating requirements for creative thinking
Practicing time management
Learning to acquire, modify and produce information in different forms

The Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Our Quality Evaluation Method is an academically sound approach to evaluating a product’s pedagogical design from the viewpoint of educational psychology.

The method has been developed with university researchers and all evaluators are carefully selected Finnish teachers with a master's degree in education.

More about the evaluation