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About a year ago I became an avid reader of the r/teachers subreddit, an extensive source of insights in education: problems with AI in education (students' cognitive surrender), teachers who refuse to learn technology (pretty controversial), smartphones, student attention degradation, students who fail basic reading tests, and more.

refUsers

There are still a lot of teachers who aren't good with computers or refuse to learn new technology — like how to use an iPad, Google Suite, stuff like that.

A comment on educational video for a lesson planning app. — "This looks cool and everything, but I always just end up reverting to either Word or paper for lesson planning, as this looks too complex to set up, and appears to just add a lot of extra work to my already busy day."

Direction

On this abundant source of problems that need to be addressed, my pick was lesson/curriculum management, so I can buy extra time for teachers. A calendar organizer with an extended manager for day, week, and month views to organize teachers' schedules in both short- and long-term perspectives.

Research

Teachers probably the most tired, underappreciated and underpaying people. Therefore, researching problem on Reddit is better on relevant, already created topics by teachers.

Actions that caused severe carma reduction:

• Writing about AI or your app in r/teachers subreddit.
• Asking about AI in comments.
• Trying to sell your app in the subreddit (most likely you will be banned).
• Using AI to create post or comment.

Better way:

• Use dedicated r/AskTeachers subreddit for questions.
• Ask about a problem, do not sell a solution.
• Offer some help with tech.

Status

Yep, plenty of teachers still use and will continue to use paper — simple templates, even ones generated by AI, just printed out. And TPT (Teachers Pay Teachers) fierce competitor is still super popular, where teachers create and sell educational tools to other teachers.

Teachers don't buy these apps themselves — schools and districts do. It's basically corporate software, where the buyers aren't the ones actually using it.

The app's status: confirmed dead, no users, no visitors.

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