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Notes on building an AI tutor for the Nepali curriculum — pedagogy, privacy, and the engineering behind it.
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A worksheet shaped by what a teacher has noticed
The same page does different work in different hands. Where a school has already written down how a child learns, the worksheet builder can produce that child their own sheet — same subject, same chapter, laid out for the person who has to sit down and do it.
When the connection drops: marking attendance and homework anyway
The register cannot wait for the line to come back. Attendance, typed homework and study notes keep working with no connection at all, and send themselves to the school's records the next time the app is open in range.
When the quiz is wrong: letting a student challenge the question
Questions in the Learning Game are generated, and a generated question can occasionally carry a wrong answer key. Rather than promise it never happens, we gave students a way to say so — and built the re-check, the score correction and the withdrawal of the bad question that follow.
Social Studies is taught in Nepali — the subject decides the language, not a setting
A Social Studies worksheet written in English is not a stylistic choice; it is the wrong worksheet. So the language of what the platform generates is a property of the subject, decided on the server, rather than a dropdown a browser happens to be showing.
Education first: the things we decided our AI is not allowed to do
"Education first. Technology second." is easy to put on a slide. This is what it actually cost us — five places where we deliberately made the software less impressive so it would be more useful.
Why an answer cites a book, a chapter and a page
An answer a student cannot check is a claim, not a source. Every AI answer names the book, chapter and page behind it — material looked up when the question is asked, not baked into a model.