This post is co-written with Jerry Henley, Hans Buchheim, and Roy Gunter from Classworks.
Classworks is more than just an online teacher and student platform – it’s a revolutionary tool that combines academic screening, progress monitoring, and specially designed instruction for reading and math for grades K–12. What sets Classworks apart is its unique ability to ingest student assessment data from various sources, analyze it, and automatically deliver a customized learning progression for each student. While this evidence-based model has proven to significantly impact student growth, managing a classroom of 25 students with diverse learning needs can be challenging. Teachers often find themselves torn between assisting individual students and delivering group instruction, ultimately hindering the learning experience for all.
Enter Wittly by Classworks – an AI-powered learning assistant built on Amazon Bedrock, an advanced service that simplifies the creation of generative AI applications. Wittly is the solution to the challenges of personalized learning and teacher workload, offering a unique approach that centers on two key aspects:
- Harnessing Anthropic’s Claude in Amazon Bedrock for advanced AI capabilities – By integrating with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5, Wittly can provide tailored learning support and foster self-directed learning environments at scale.
- Personalization and teacher empowerment – Through AI-driven differentiated instruction, Wittly adapts to individual student needs, enhancing their learning experience and reducing teacher workload, allowing educators to focus on high-impact student support.
In this article, we’ll explore how Classworks leverages Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet to deliver next-generation differentiated learning with Wittly.
Powering differentiated learning with Amazon Bedrock
Delivering personalized instruction to a classroom of diverse learners is transformative, but labor-intensive and time-consuming for teachers. Wittly uses generative AI to provide explanations tailored to each student’s learning style, enabling them to grasp concepts at their own pace and overcome obstacles independently. With the scalable infrastructure of Amazon Bedrock, Wittly can handle diverse classroom needs simultaneously, making personalized instruction a reality for every student.
Amazon Bedrock serves as the backbone of Wittly’s AI capabilities, offering significant advantages:
- Single API access – Simplifies integration with Anthropic’s Claude foundation models, accelerating development cycles and enabling seamless adoption of new models without major code changes.
- Serverless architecture – Eliminates infrastructure management, provides automatic scaling, and optimizes costs, allowing Wittly to focus on enhancing educational features.
By combining cutting-edge AI technology with thoughtful implementation, Wittly represents a significant leap forward in personalized digital learning assistance. The system’s architecture, powered by Amazon Bedrock and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5, enables Wittly to adapt to individual student needs while maintaining high standards of safety, privacy, and educational efficacy.
Increasing teacher capacity and bandwidth
Differentiating instruction for students learning independently, Wittly saves valuable teacher time. By offering interactive explanations to students before seeking the teacher’s help, Wittly fosters a self-directed learning environment, benefiting both students and teachers. With the capabilities of Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 3.5, Wittly creates a more efficient, personalized learning ecosystem.
Solution overview
The solution architecture consists of several key components, including Wittly interface, Classworks API, Wittly AI assistant prompt, Student common misconception prompt, and Anthropic’s Claude on Amazon Bedrock.
Monitoring the Wittly platform
Robust monitoring is essential in the AI-powered education landscape. Wittly’s comprehensive monitoring strategy includes tracking token usage, request volume, response times, costs, quality metrics, error tracking, user engagement, and system health. By utilizing Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana for real-time data visualization, Wittly ensures high performance standards.
Engaging with Wittly: A student’s experience
Wittly, the AI-powered learning assistant, offers guided interactions to students in Classworks. By providing explanations and guidance tailored to each student’s needs, Wittly enhances the learning experience in a safe and controlled environment.
Data privacy and safety considerations
Classworks prioritizes student data protection and safety, ensuring personalized learning without compromising privacy. Wittly’s design and operation maintain student privacy by not sharing personally identifiable information and employing encrypted data transmission and storage.
Conclusion
Amazon Bedrock is reshaping the landscape of AI technology in education, empowering Classworks to pioneer personalized learning experiences. With Wittly’s innovative capabilities, teachers can save valuable time and focus on tailored educational experiences, leading to improved learning outcomes for students.
To learn more about how generative AI and Amazon Bedrock can revolutionize educational platforms, visit Amazon Bedrock. Discover how advanced AI can streamline development processes and provide impactful insights for users.
To learn more about Classworks and its groundbreaking capabilities, visit their website.
This is a guest post from Classworks. Classworks is an award-winning K–12 special education and tiered intervention platform that delivers personalized learning experiences through advanced technology and comprehensive data.
About the Authors
Jerry Henley, VP of Technology at Curriculum Advantage.
Hans Buchheim, VP of Engineering at Curriculum Advantage.
Roy Gunter, DevOps Engineer at Curriculum Advantage.
Gowtham Shankar, Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Dr. Changsha Ma, AI/ML Specialist at AWS.