Our mission is to support social learning
communities with collaborative digital tools
designed for physical student artifacts.
About Paper Orca
As an edtech company, we know that our role is to help teachers build learning communities in the way they know best. This means listening to goals and frustrations, designing technology conscientiously, and crafting a seamless user experience.
We believe that our current edtech landscape is over-indexed on the ideal of one-to-one technology in the classroom. Historically this made sense because working in a controlled digital environment has been the only way to reliably interact with online tools. In other words, more devices has meant more equitable access. Recent advancements in AI have made it easier to design technology for the physical environments where we learn best, and it's time to reclaim doing more work off-screen in the classroom.
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.
