Kai Coach: the AI coach that asks questions instead of writing students' answers
An introduction to Kai Coach and to the Socratic method behind it. The video shows how Kai Coach teaches students to think through their own work instead of handing them the answer.
The midnight draft: where students stall, and the question that gets them moving
It is midnight, the paper is due, and a chatbot sits one click away. Elizabeth Landers names the three moments where students stall, explaining why, committing to a claim, and interpreting a source, and shows how a single question from Kai Coach turns description into argument.
One student, three questions
A History 2C student moves from “I don't know” to an argument about Walter Benjamin, guided by three questions from Kai Coach.
Same question, four answers
Elizabeth Landers gives ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Kai Coach the same request and compares what each tool does with it.
Professor Teo Ruiz: “I have never seen results like these”
Professor Teo Ruiz, who has taught at UCLA since 1998, describes what changed when his History 2C students worked with Kai Coach. His students stopped reciting what happened and began arguing why it happened.
Professor Zrinka Stahuljak: Interpretation is reasoning too
Professor Zrinka Stahuljak explains why interpreting a text is a form of reasoning, as she prepares to bring Kai Coach to Comparative Literature 2BW.
What would students write if they had to think first?
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