teacher's pet sale's pitch

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Teacher’s Pet at a Glance

• App that will revolutionize the education system• Assesses progress of students, preps for exams• Forces accountability of students/parents– Forces students to pay attention in class– Parents see daily progress

• “Face Time” conference for parents/teachers; • Emergency response system• Announcement system• Grade book for teachers

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Why Invest in this App?

–Potential for substantial return on investment–Recognition for great education app–Stake in company–Return on investment within 5-7 years–Royalty Fees

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Tablet Popularity Headlines

• Tablet Sales to Surpass 58 million in 2014• Tablet Industry to be worth $35 billion by 2012• iPad Takes Over 93% of Tablet PC Market– 4.5 million sold last semester

• iPad Demand booming– 12.9 million shipped in 2010– Estimated 36.5 million in 2011– Estimated 50.4 million in 2012

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Schools Using iPads

• Arlington Public Schools Invest $70,000 on iPads– Grant to go “Beyond Textbooks”– Stresses Technology

• Nation’s Schools embracing iPads– School districts hoping to provide iPads for all students– Schools applying for grants for iPads

• Impact of iPad on K-12 Schools– Cheaper Textbooks– Communication between students and teachers

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Typical Classroom Scenario

• A teacher tells her students to raise their hand and tell her what 12 divided by 6 is

• Problems with this scenario– Only one person answers– Can’t know whether other students raising hands knew

answer– Some students too shy to answer; hard to assess them– Can’t tell if a student is too shy or just doesn’t know

answer

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Teacher’s Pet Scenario

• Teacher and each student have iPad in classroom

• Teacher creates questions, inputs them into app via user-friendly template

• Teacher uses app to send question to each student’s iPad in the class

• Each student answers question using app, sends results to teacher instantly– Shows who got it right and who got it wrong

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Teacher’s iPad Student’s iPad

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Teacher’s iPad John Doe’s iPad

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Student Review

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Assessing Class

• All students get question right; material understood

• Few students get question wrong; teacher spends extra time with them individually or recommends tutoring

• Most students get question wrong; teacher takes extra time with subject material

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Assessing Individual Students• Teacher examines app-generated stats of each student

• Evaluates how student is doing compared to rest of class

• Not performing well on specific material, may recommend or require tutoring*

• Notices trend of continuous wrong answers; red flag waived

• Students can practice with similar questions if they get one wrong

• Ensures students are ready come exam time

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Individual Student Statistics

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Emailing Parents

• App allows teachers to Email student’s stats to parents

• Parents see student is in the lower percentile of class, works with child to better comprehend subject material

• Parents may setup app to automatically receive daily or weekly stats on child

• Revolutionizes way for parents to keep up on child’s schooling; currently big problem in U.S. with busy schedules

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Teacher’s iPad Parent’s iPad

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iPad to iPad Parent/Teacher Conference

• When emailing parents, teacher can request in-person meeting with parents or iPad to iPad video conference “Face Time”– Parents can also request conference with teachers– Good way to communicate if child is constantly

misbehaving• Great way to keep communication open

between teachers and parents, especially with busy schedules

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iPad “Face Time”

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Grade Book

• Teachers will have the ability to make selected questions count toward students’ grade

• App will have a grade book page for teachers• Once a student submits an answer, the points

will automatically be inputted into grade book• If question requires grading, short answer for

example, the teacher will grade it and then enter the points earned which will automatically enter into grade book

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Grade Book

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Principal Assessing Teachers

• Principal can assess how one teacher’s class is doing compared to another’s

• Helps hold teachers accountable

• Filters out bad teachers

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Principle Assessing Teachers

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Morning Announcements

• If each student has app, school officials can stream video announcements onto iPad

• Ability to show bullet point text

• Ability to show video

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Morning Announcements

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Emergency Response System

• If there is an emergency on campus, i.e. bomb threat, fire, shooting, etc., the app will alert all students

• School officials will have ability to use app to alert every student on campus of emergency

• Official can stream video, alerting students– Can upload map with flashing red dot showing

problem area on campus

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Emergency Response System

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Other features/notes

• App will lock student’s iPad so they can’t surf Internet while in class

• Possible Consideration: Team up with textbook publisher to add review questions onto app

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