Some use tools like ChatGPT to help them study, others use AI to write entire essays.
Landon Harter, a senior graduating from Gull Lake High School, is using AI to help teachers. He created “KODISC,” a software where people plug in a prompt and an AI (that he coded) will spit out an educational video.
He’s already receiving inquiries from companies about the software, Harter said.
“I think that this would be such a useful tool in classrooms, especially if teachers could make their own videos in a few minutes,” Harter said.
Harter will be studying computer science at the University of Michigan next year.
Harter was inspired to create KODISC by a YouTuber he watches. The creator uses animations they code to explain math and science topics.
“I thought it was sick,” Harter said. “These animations were so cool, but the problem was you had to learn to code ... I thought it was a really big barrier to entry.”
With KODISC, you give the AI a prompt like “explain photosynthesis,” and the AI will generate a video with an explanatory response.
The photosynthesis explanation was 30 seconds long and included the formula for photosynthesis, an explanation for the process and a diagram: “Carbon dioxide and water enter the plant, sunlight provides energy for photosynthesis, glucose and oxygen are produced,” the on-screen explanation read.
Harter coded the AI to access information from across the Internet to pull from and create explanations. He’s still working to perfect the software.
“The AI is not perfect, it makes mistakes,” Harter said. “There’s some errors in the code, so one of the big issues was reducing the error as much as possible in the code.”
This isn’t Harter’s first time using AI to make a software. He also created a study tool to make flashcards with a friend called “Opal,” but the tool never took off because there are already a lot of similar AI tools available.
“It’s definitely not my greatest work,” Harter said with a laugh.
KODISC, on the other hand, “is definitely my favorite (AI tool) I’ve worked on,” Harter said. “I think it has the most potential.”
Harter started learning how to code when he was 10 years old after his dad bought him a computer.
“I made a few apps and I thought AI would be a cool addition,” Harter said. “I just had a lot of fun with it.”
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