Our mission is to support social learning
communities with collaborative digital tools
designed for physical student artifacts.
About Paper Orca
We love digital tools, but technology in the classroom comes with trade-offs. One-to-one devices present irresistable learning distrations and can diminish social interactions during a critical time for interpersonal growth. Amid the sustained influx of digital learning following COVID-19 shutdowns, parents, students, teachers, administrators, and lawmakers are coming to recognize these effects and are looking for solutions.
With our team's background in education, design, and technology, we are focused on tools for teachers to guide impactful in-person lessons rooted in the context of the community.
Our AI Philosophy
Tools for teachers
Paper Orca uses AI to clean images, sort assignments, and help teachers identify patterns. These are tasks at which AI excels and would otherwise bog down teaching. We don't believe in using AI to replace or impersonate teachers.
Tools for communities
We are believers of differentiation in the classroom, but we also recognize that some forms of over-personalization can detract from social learning environments. That's why our use of AI is focused on bringing student voices into the fold of the community.
