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Augmented Education Platform - PLEI

Executive Summary Plei Augmented Education Solution will enhance educational techniques, providing the technological resources to the students so they can improve their learning process. It is a learning assistant that aids the student in the management of knowledge. Our clients are educational Institutions and students who will be provided of the compiled information that our platform obtains. Students could receive a richer set of information from the class looking through the device. As well the teaching device will be able to monitor the student performance and then reinforce accordingly by games. The teacher will be provided a statistical information for teaching planning purposes. Across the world there’s a huge problem, people are dying of hunger, social inequalities are becoming more radicals, and the problem isn’t politics issues or the economy situation, the problem is the unconscious way we’re poorly living. That’s why we propose Plei as a solution, because it will Democratizes education, giving oportunity of learning to almost every human. Plei solution involves various technology such as: Artificial Intelligence, Web 3.0 (Semantic Web), Elaborative encoding, Social Networking and Augmented Reality. All combined will be as a result the best educational platform ever! One of the amazing benefits will be through Augmented Reality, a techonology that will immersed the student in the topic of the class.

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Plei: Augmented Education Platform

What is Plei? Plei is a group of technology related to complete the objective of enhancing the education to a level where the classroom becomes a more interactive place, where studying has turn into the ultimate entertainment, and as such the knowledge is practically carved in the minds of the students, being hardly forgettable. In that group of technology one can see a device that the student can use through the class, that augments the reality that he/she is living in that place. It permits to “see-through”, to find the class’s elements in the device’s screen with explanations and connections with elements that the user has seen previously. At this stage we find of lesser importance the shape and look of the device because we focus in functionality, so in 20 years it could become a translucent material with no need of tablet PC, or it could become an hologram, but the core functionality is what we want to explain. Right now we envision this as formed of three base technologies: Augmented Reality, that has been recently used in an initial stage, is the process in which a person uses some technology to increase the flow of information that he is receiving from its environment. This technology is implemented using the latest techniques in artificial intelligence, but at this moment the algorithms and systems that exists are not enough to handle the great flow of information that would be needed in a class room. Also the recognition capabilities are very limited, in part because of the same border of technology. We expect that these technologies will be greatly enhanced by 2030, so we could be facing the perfect scenario for a more interactive classroom where the augmented reality could be effectively being used. Another important element of the platform we propose is the Social Networking capabilities, that enables the student to interact with his classmates, even when not physically in the room, and learn to quickly solve problems in partnership with other students. Finally we envision that such a platform needs to use some techniques to overcome the problem of effective learning that we face with the traditional model of education, and we found that for a long time there were some techniques called The Memory Palace and more recently Elaborate Encoding, where great mnemotechnic techniques are used to connect knowledge in a way that its very difficult to forget. It has to do with relating every new concept with old concepts that are remembered vividly.

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