Overview
This product focuses on the asynchronous nature and temporal asymmetry to create a new learning experience in classrooms. In traditional classroom settings, it was challenging to balance rich communication among students and personalized learning pace for each student. Synchronous face-to-face or online classes involve students experiencing the same content at the same time. On the other hand, asynchronous on-demand classes allow students to learn at their own pace but limit real-time interaction with other students. Kineto offers a new classroom environment that combines the advantages of both. Students can share thoughts and emotions through handwritten notes and sticky notes while watching videos. They can also freely control time aspects like pausing and rewinding. However, notes and other content associated with the video rewind synchronously, enabling communication among students while maintaining context. Furthermore, Kineto introduces a new form of synchronization called “Elastic Synchronization.” This allows asynchronously viewing students to be flexibly synchronized as needed, enabling almost real-time two-way interactions. By redefining the temporal relationships, this product has brought about an unprecedented classroom experience. It leverages asynchrony while enabling rich communication among students. This product significantly expands the possibilities in education and presents a new way of learning brought about by temporal asymmetry.
- The innovative classroom platform Kineto enables the realization of both “synchronous communication among students” and “learning tailored to each student’s pace.”
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Key Features of Kineto
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Teachers can upload course videos to Kineto or stream them live.
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Students can share their thoughts and emotions with each other on Kineto’s board while attending classes.
- Various interaction features such as sticky notes, handwriting pens, and voting functions are available, allowing students to communicate with classmates on Kineto.
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While attending classes, students can freely pause, fast forward, rewind, and perform other time-related operations.
- When rewinding the video, the sticky notes and written memos posted by other students also rewind together.
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Issues with Traditional Classroom Settings
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Traditional classroom formats mainly consist of real-time classes and on-demand classes.
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Real-time classes
- Examples: Face-to-face classes, Zoom classes
- ✅ Enable synchronous communication among students.
- ❎ However, they lack the ability to manipulate playback time like on-demand classes.
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On-demand classes
- Examples: YouTube classes, textbooks
- ✅ Enable learning tailored to each student’s pace.
- ❎ However, they lack the emotional sharing and discussions with other students like real-time classes.
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Kineto breaks the trade-off between real-time and on-demand by
- Balancing “synchronous communication among students” and “learning tailored to each student’s pace.”
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Achievable with Kineto
”Synchronous communication among students” 💞- Students can participate actively and independently in classes, allowing them to freely share their opinions and thoughts.
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Students can share their opinions on sticky notes in response to questions posed by the teacher.
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They can write down their questions on sticky notes and receive reactions from other students.
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Students can write annotations freely while watching videos and share them.
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They can share information they have researched by posting it on sticky notes.
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Students can vote on their own thoughts in response to questions like A or B.
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Furthermore, through sharing emotions, casual communication can create the “atmosphere” in the classroom.
- Sharing emotions by repeatedly using emoji counters.
- Writing and sharing thoughts or comments with a pen.
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Achievable with Kineto
”Tailored Learning Pace for Each Student” ⏯
- It is possible to have classes where each student can learn at their own optimal pace.
- Pause, fast forward, or rewind playback according to understanding.
- Pause to gather thoughts when wanting to think carefully about a question.
- Slow down playback to take notes at a comfortable pace.
- Take a break by pausing if feeling tired and in need of rest.
- Fast forward if time is limited.
- Anticipate the next lesson by studying ahead if already familiar with the content.
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Why is it difficult to achieve both “rich communication among students” and “students learning at their own pace” in traditional environments?
- To achieve “rich communication among students,” it is necessary for students to be “synchronized” in time with each other.
- In other words, each student needs to have the same experience at the same time.
- Details: Synchronization in Student Communication
- However, in classes where “students learn at their own pace,” it is not feasible for students to always be “synchronized” with each other.
- If each student performs actions like pausing, fast-forwarding, or rewinding independently, the class will not have the same experience at the same time.
Why can Kineto achieve both? 🎉
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Kineto overcomes this challenge by focusing on the element of “time” and successfully balancing “rich communication among students” and “students learning at their own pace.”
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Point 1: Sense of shared time
- Through Kineto-enhanced class experiences, students can feel a “sense of shared time” even with others who are not actually synchronized.
- This shared sense of time allows students to participate in classes with a sense of live interaction and excitement.
- When commenting with sticky notes or handwritten notes, the input process is shared letter by letter, not just the end result.
- This strong awareness of others commenting allows students to feel a sense of “shared time.”
- Through Kineto-enhanced class experiences, students can feel a “sense of shared time” even with others who are not actually synchronized.
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Point 2: Synchronized contextual communication
- With Kineto, students can know what others thought or felt at that moment on the timeline.
- This provides a sense of receiving information at the same time as others, as if attending the class together.
- It also helps avoid spoilers during communication.
- In traditional on-demand classes, a separate channel was needed for communication.
- Example: Collaborative editing notes for discussions.- However, in such situations where each student progresses at a different pace, there is a possibility of receiving spoilers from students who already know the answers to the problems.
- In traditional on-demand classes, a separate channel was needed for communication.
- With Kineto, students can know what others thought or felt at that moment on the timeline.
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Just acquiring information is not enough; in classes where learning is gained through the experience of the lesson, spoilers are not allowed.
- With Kineto, you can relive the “learning process” designed by the teacher.
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Point 3: Elastic Sync
- Kineto can achieve two-way interaction even when each student is watching at different times.
- To achieve this, it uses a unique mechanism called elastic sync.
- What is Elastic Sync?
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A system that synchronizes users who are watching asynchronously by automatically adjusting the playback speed.
- It eliminates the gap in playback positions between students by making slight adjustments to the playback speed.
- Each student’s playback speed is automatically adjusted within the range of 0.9 to 1.2 times speed, absorbing the gap between students.
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- Elastic Sync allows for the simultaneous operation of freely adjusting the playback position in on-demand classes and synchronizing with others in real-time classes.
- Kineto can achieve two-way interaction even when each student is watching at different times.
Other Points
- Recording and analysis feature for teachers
- As a support function for teachers, analytics features are provided.
- Kineto records how each student performs operations such as ⏸ pause, ⏩ fast forward, and ↩️ rewind.
- This data can be used for post-class reflections and other purposes.
- Additionally, a feature to visualize the locations where ⏩ rewind operations are repeated will be developed.
Usage Scenarios
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In face-to-face classes, each student accesses Kineto from their iPad/Mac.
- Wearing headphones, each student participates in the class at their own pace.
- A classroom experience where students feel like they are attending the class together with others is created.
- Connecting elastically with others and engaging in two-way communication.
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In online classes, each student opens Kineto at a set time.
- Participating in the class at their own pace from their homes.
- A classroom experience where students feel like they are attending the class together with others is created.
- Connecting elastically with others and engaging in two-way communication.
- If there are questions for the teacher, communication can be done using Zoom/chat.
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In online classes, each student opens Kineto at their preferred time.
- A classroom experience where students feel like they are attending the class together with others is created.
- Elastic connections with others may not occur unless luck is on their side.
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