Campfire Session — 2024 Wrapped

Summary of Flint product updates from this year, examples of how the new features have been used, and group brainstorming for what can come next in Flint.

Lulu Gao, Head of Teacher Experience at Flint | LinkedIn

Video Summary

Join Lulu and Sohan from the Flint team in recounting the major updates to Flint over the course of 2024! In this session we...

Covered major feature updates month-to-month
Example templates and use cases enabled by those features
Questions and feedback from attendees about the features in Flint
Group brainstorming for how Flint can evolve next

Slides shown within the session can be found here.

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Chapters

Introduction • 0:00

Lulu Gao introduces the session and explains how the features with a fire emoji next to them are ones directly suggested by teachers using Flint.

Updates Spring 2024 • 04:29

Switching the focus to be on AI tutoring
A focus on math, enabling both accurate computation, graphing, and image recognition
Helpfulness level slider to control the amount of guidance from the AI
Evidence-based feedback from the AI

Updates Summer 2024 • 08:02

Image recognition capabilities for students to upload images for analysis and feedback
Image generation
Additional teacher feedback
Inappropriate message flagging
New simplified interface
Templates library

Updates Fall 2024 • 11:23

In-text citations and web search
SIS and LMS roster integration
Shortcuts for activity creation
Start prompts to model good questions to ask AI
Renaming to activities to promote more variety in personalized learning
New sessions view for activity owners
Adjustable speaking rate
Switch to Claude 3.5 Sonnet
IB levels added
Auto-generated citations

Questions about Updates • 16:00

Visibility of sessions
Getting started guide for teachers
Reason for using Claude over GPT
Specialized prompting for an educational setting included in Flint

Brainstorming session • 21:27

Which feature excited you the most? How did you use it in your instruction?
What features would be useful for your subject? (ex: speaking speed for World Language)
How can AI be used to better engage students?
How could Flint become more interactive?
For teachers, what other information would help you better understand student performance?
For admins, what other data would help you better understand how teachers and students are using Flint?
Any remaining thoughts or ideas?