This document overviews the repositories required to launch the Slonig peer-tutoring app.
Slonig is an open-source, free-to-use web platform that helps teachers make students talk more during lessons. The approach of having students talk and teach each other has been known for decades and has been shown to be one of the most powerful ways to improve educational outcomes (Dietrichson et al., 2017). However, it’s challenging for teachers to organize this process: it involves complex logistics (deciding who works with whom), creating materials for such activities, and training students to effectively tutor their peers.
Slonig solves all these problems in one solution: it includes all learning materials (open for editing like Wikipedia), guides students on how to perform tutoring using a built-in algorithm, validates the quality of the process through game theory, and enables all this to happen while students talk to each other face to face in the same classroom!
We conducted pilot lessons with Slonig in several schools and observed remarkable efficiency in training students to teach their peers. In most cases, just one lesson was enough to start effective peer learning. You can read more in our research paper.
If you’re a developer or interested in contributing to the project’s design, you may want to explore our technical draft white paper. It’s a long read and still under development, so please keep that in mind when reviewing sections on tokenomics and the business model — these are early drafts and likely to be revised soon. You’re welcome to contribute by proposing improvements or changes.
- Try the Slonig App: https://app.slonig.org/
- Our Website: https://slonig.org/
- WhatsApp: +382 67 887600
- Email: reshetovdenis@gmail.com