SkillBridge

Digital Assistant for Teachers in the SkillBridge platform is an innovative tool supporting the teaching process, using Generative AI technology. Its main goal is to optimize the teacher’s work by automating and personalizing many aspects of teaching. Thanks to the assistant, the teacher will have less bureaucratic work and more time for students and to develop their own skills. Here is a list of the key functionalities that the assistant for teachers offers:

1. Timetable Generation: The assistant automatically creates lesson plans tailored to the specific curriculum and specific needs of students, as well as offering suggestions for modifications based on feedback and test results.
2. Customizing Teaching Materials: The assistant personalizes teaching materials, adapting the tasks and difficulty level of the content to better respond to the individual needs and pace of learning of students.
3. Automatic Grading: The tool allows you to automatically grade student work, such as choice tests, quizzes, or short text answers, which significantly saves the teacher’s time and speeds up the feedback process.
4. Student Progress Analysis: The assistant tracks and analyzes student progress, providing guidance to the teacher on areas that need additional support.
5. Classroom Assistant Bot: With AI, the assistant can function as a helper bot during class, quickly answering student questions and moderating discussions.
6. Learning Resource Management: An assistant helps organize and manage digital learning resources, making it easier for teachers to access the materials they need.
7. Reporting & Reporting: The digital assistant automates reporting and reporting processes, generating reports on student progress, teaching effectiveness, and other key educational indicators. Thanks to this, teachers can concentrate on working directly with students, having effective documentation of their achievements.
8. Adapting to Different Teaching Styles: AI adapts its features and tools to the teacher’s preferred teaching style, supporting both more directive and exploratory methods of education.

These functionalities make the digital assistant for teachers an invaluable support in their daily work, enabling better management of time and resources, as well as offering a more personalized and effective approach to education.

The digital assistant for students in the SkillBridge platform is a modern tool supporting the educational process, designed to maximally adapt to the individual needs and level of each student. Based on Generative AI technology, assistant applications integrate with the local curriculum and use resources provided by the school, such as books and workbooks, offering a range of functionalities that significantly improve the effectiveness of learning:

1. Individual Difficulty Adjustment: The assistant analyzes the student’s level of knowledge and adjusts the tasks and educational materials so that they are adequate to their skills and developmental needs. This allows for a gradual increase in difficulty, supporting the continuous development of the student.
2. Personalized Learning Paths: The assistant proposes personalized learning paths that take into account both the student’s current skills and their historical progress, which allows them to effectively make up for any deficiencies from previous years of learning and develop strength.
3. Problem-Solving Assistance: The Assistant offers step-by-step help with the tasks, explaining each step and presenting the solutions in a way that the student understands.
4. Access to Learning Resources: The Assistant directs students to specific learning resources, such as instructional videos, articles, or online repositories, that correspond to the topics currently being discussed or identified gaps in their education.
5. Support in Acquiring Knowledge from Previous Years: If a student has gaps in knowledge from previous years, the assistant allows easy access to educational materials to help them catch up.
6. Progress Monitoring: The assistant tracks the student’s progress, providing regular reports on their achievements and areas that need further development.
7. Interactive Quizzes and Tests: The Assistant offers quizzes and tests to help you consolidate your knowledge and prepare for tests and exams.
8. Motivation and Feedback: The assistant uses motivational techniques and offers positive feedback, encouraging students to learn and improve their competences.
9. Visual Support: With access to advanced graphical tools, the assistant helps visualize complex concepts and theories, which is especially helpful in science and technology.
10. Adapting to the Student’s Learning Style: The Assistant recognizes the student’s preferred learning style (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and adjusts teaching methods to maximize the effectiveness of learning.

Each of these functions is designed to make the learning process more engaging, effective, and tailored to the individual needs of the student, which significantly contributes to their development and educational success.

Digital assistants in the SkillBridge platform not only offer advanced functionalities to support education, but are also easily accessible thanks to intuitive and user-friendly interfaces. Both students and teachers can use the assistants through dedicated web platforms that are specifically designed to ensure smooth and effective interaction with AI tools. In addition, the assistants are integrated with popular work environments such as Microsoft Teams, which allows easy access and use of their functionalities without the need to leave familiar and everyday applications. This integration allows assistants to be seamlessly deployed into existing learning and work environments, increasing their accessibility and usability.

Benefits for the City, County and Region

SkillBridge offers significant benefits to local communities and administrations, and its implementation can have long-term positive effects on the educational, social, and economic development of the region. Here are the main benefits that SkillBridge brings in the context of local administration:

1. Increase in the competences of the population: In today’s rapidly changing economic and technological world, the ability to adapt quickly and acquire new skills is crucial. SkillBridge enables residents to develop complex problem-solving and rapid learning skills, which increases their competitiveness in the global job market.
2. Adapting to global trends: Every region, regardless of its size, is part of the global economy. Programs like SkillBridge, which support the development of modern skills, are crucial in ensuring that local communities do not fall behind global trends.
3. Reducing educational disparities: The platform allows for tailored educational content to the needs and abilities of each student, which reduces the gap in access to quality education. This is particularly important in the context of combating educational and social exclusion.
4. Attractiveness of the region: A high level of education makes the region more attractive to young people and their families, which can help to retain talent and attract new residents. This is particularly important in the context of an ageing society and the need for demographic renewal.
5. Support for teachers and students: With tools such as digital assistants, teachers can focus on the individual needs of students, while students receive personalized support to catch up and develop skills, which greatly increases the quality and efficiency of the learning process.
6. Prevention of social risks: The modern educational methods that SkillBridge offers help young people make better use of the time they spend studying, which can counteract risks such as internet addiction or other negative behaviors.
7. Promotion of tolerance and inclusivity: High-level education leads to increased public awareness, which is the foundation for building an open, tolerant and conflict-free society.
8. Preparing for future challenges: SkillBridge enables local communities to prepare for future challenges, such as migration or changes in the economic structure, by developing adaptive and innovative skills.

Implementing SkillBridge is an investment in the future that will bring both short- and long-term benefits, contributing to building a strong, educated, and competitive local community.

Implementation plan 

SkillBridge Platform Roadmap: Integrating and Advancing Educational Innovation

Phase I: Diagnostics and Strategic Planning

1. Digital Maturity Audit:
   • Conducting a comprehensive technological audit in schools and other educational institutions, aimed at assessing the existing infrastructure, digital tools and IT competences of staff and students.
   • Identification of gaps and needs related to the modernization of technological and educational infrastructure.
2. Analysis of educational strategies:
   • Evaluation of current curricula and teaching methods in the context of integration with modern educational technologies.
   • Work with local authorities and educational experts to understand specific regional requirements and expectations.

Phase II: System Design and Integration

1. Defining Business and Technical Requirements:
   • Development of detailed functional and technical requirements for the SkillBridge platform, taking into account the specificity of local needs and the adaptability of the system.
   • Designing Generative AI use scenarios that will respond to the individual learning needs of different user groups.
2. Selection of Suppliers, Technology Partners and sources of financing:
   • Conducting the process of selecting infrastructure and technology suppliers in order to ensure the best quality of services and products.
   • Establishing partnerships with local universities and research centres, supporting the development of research and educational innovation financed by the European Union.
3. QuickWin and the SkillBridge Product-Specific Implementation Plan 
   • QuickWin: Implementation of development projects in the first school year, such as Astro PI – sending applications written by students to the ISS space station.
   • Planning regular implementations of SkillBrigne products that will benefit the local community without waiting for the project to end. 

Phase III: Implementation and Training

1. System implementation:
   • Implementation of the designed infrastructure and SkillBridge solution, in accordance with the agreed project schedule.
   • Conducting tests and optimization of the system to ensure its full functionality and efficiency.
2. Training Program and User Support:
   • Organization of trainings for teachers and other users of the system, aimed at familiarizing them with new tools and methods of work.
   • Establish technical and educational support so that users can effectively use the platform in their daily work.

Phase IV: Monitoring, Maintenance and Continuous Development

1. Continuous Monitoring and Evaluation of Effectiveness:
   • Continuously track the performance and effectiveness of your SkillBridge implementation to identify areas for improvement.
   • Regular updates of software and tools in response to changing educational and technological requirements.
2. Research and development initiatives:
   • Conducting joint research and development projects with local universities and research centers, financed by the European Union, in order to further develop and improve the SkillBridge platform.

The SkillBridge implementation plan is designed to make the most of the opportunities of modern educational technologies and methods, transforming local educational systems into dynamic, flexible and effective responses to the changing requirements of the global environmental market.

QuickWin Implementation Plan and Strategy

Ambitious projects take a long time to complete, but you don’t have to wait long for the first positive effects of SkillBridge. The SkillBridge project is implemented using agile methodologies in which frequent product implementations are planned, each of which can be put into the hands of target users and demonstrate the benefit of the challenges and investments undertaken. At SkillBridge, we want to show the positive effects of our work together in the first months of our work. An example of such an effective success can be the implementation of the Astro Pi Zero program in local schools. 

Introduction to Astro Pi Zero: Astro Pi Zero is an exciting initiative from the European Space Agency (ESA) that empowers young minds to explore space science through programming. Students have the chance to write their own Python programs, which are then run on Astro Pi computers on the International Space Station (ISS). ESA provides full didactic support, including ready-made lesson plans and educational materials in Polish, which makes it easier for local schools to implement this project.

Description Quick Win – Astro Pi Zero in schools: The first step in the implementation of our SkillBridge project will be the implementation of the Astro Pi Zero program in regional schools. This action aims not only to introduce innovative STEM education, but also to quickly and visibly demonstrate the benefits of implementing advanced educational technologies. Already in the first school year, thanks to the Astro Pi Zero program, students will have a chance to obtain certificates confirming the fact that the applications they wrote were launched in orbit around the Earth. 

Action plan:

1. Teacher Training – Liki staff will conduct professional workshops for teachers, preparing them to run the program in future years.
2. Introductory lesson for students – An introduction to the basics of programming on the Astro Pi and how to use an emulator that will allow you to practice hands-on without the need for physical hardware.
3. Sending applications – Students, working in teams of two, will create applications that will be sent to ESA. Each of the applications will be launched on the ISS, which is not only scientifically valuable, but also incredibly motivating for young programmers.
4. Certificates and Project Presentation – Each participant will receive a certificate with the date and exact geographical coordinates where the ISS was at the launch of their program. 
5. Presentation – To conclude, students will present their projects by analyzing and visualizing the route that ISS has taken during the course of their application.

Benefits: Implementing the Astro Pi Zero program as part of the SkillBridge Quick Win project will not only quickly raise the level of technical education, but will also strengthen the region’s educational reputation by attracting new talent. Allowing students to interact directly with an international space project raises interest in STEM science and motivates them to continue to develop in these directions.

We encourage local authorities to cooperate in order to implement this pioneering project, which has a chance to become a showcase of modern education in our region. SkillBridge, combined with Astro Pi Zero, opens the door to the future of education, where every participant in the teaching process can have a real impact on shaping the world of science and technology.

Participate in Your Region’s Learning Transformation with SkillBridge

We invite leaders of education and public administration who want to effectively respond to the challenges of the modern world, improving the quality of education and the attractiveness of their region. SkillBridge not only offers a solution to current problems related to education, but is also a powerful tool for attracting young, ambitious residents who are able to co-create the future of the local community.

Why invest in SkillBridge?

• Clear benefits for the community: SkillBridge elevates education by integrating the latest AI technologies and digital teaching tools, which directly translates into better student outcomes and greater competitiveness of the region.
• Improving the image of the region: The implementation of SkillBridge is an excellent opportunity to show commitment to local and educational development, which can be crucial in building a positive image among the region’s residents.
• Minimal administrative involvement: Our comprehensive approach to project implementation and support ensures that the implementation of the system does not overburden the resources of the city or county, allowing you to focus on your daily business.

What’s the first step? Contact us to schedule a SkillBridge demo where we will discuss how our platform can be tailored to the specific needs of your city or region. We offer full support at every stage of the project, from needs analysis, through design and implementation, to ongoing support and development of the system.

We invite you to act! Don’t miss the opportunity to become a leader in innovative education. Your decision can change the future of education in your region, affecting the lives of thousands of residents. Together, we can build a community that will be a model for others and a point of light on the educational map of the country.

Contact us today to learn more about SkillBridge and start your educational transformation in your region. We look forward to seeing you create the future of education together.