OKO Labs
Joined 2024
Partners
What are we building?
OKO Labs is redefining collaborative learning for the K-12 classroom through human-centric, pro-social AI. Our intelligent assistant platform, OKO, facilitates small-group math activities for elementary and middle school students, leveraging multimodal AI (voice, gesture, LLMs) to foster rich discussion, teamwork, and deeper conceptual understanding. Our mission is to empower educators and engage students, making effective small-group learning equitable and accessible.
What are we learning?
OKO is focused on moving students from basic participation to rich mathematical reasoning through better AI-powered prompts, explanations, and context and key term reinforcement. The project aims to understand how to best facilitate mathematical discourse and collaboration. Key areas of learning include:
AI Scaffolding: Investigating which AI-powered prompts, explanations, key terms, and other scaffolding methods are most effective in a group learning context.
Mathematical Discourse: Exploring how to best foster student motivation and productive discourse using an AI-powered "Look-for and Nudge" system.
Discourse Quality Analysis: Developing an AI-powered measurement system to evaluate the quality of session discourse and translate that data into actionable insights for teachers.
Student Engagement: Determining the best ways to motivate groups of students through various gamification techniques.
Personal Math Narratives: Learning how to improve students' personal math narratives by addressing concepts such as relevance, emotions, mistakes, help-seeking, student agency, and reframing struggle.
Teacher Tools: Determining the most effective reports and tools to help educators operationalize small group work and inform their own instruction.
Products
"Let's Talk" Collaborative Learning Platform: An AI-enhanced platform for small-group, math-focused collaborative learning for students in grades 3-8.
Teacher Session Reports: Provide teachers with actionable insights from the students session, highlight, student participation, math discourse, misconceptions and next steps.