The Community Builder (CoBi) AI partner helps groups of learners improve their collaboration skills by focusing on how they interact and work together. CoBi works by setting so-called "community agreements" — guidelines on how a learning community wants to collaborate, which include being respectful, equitable, committed to their learning community, and pushing thinking forward. Co-negotiated examples of community agreements are entered into the CoBi system to serve as a reminder of the community’s agreed-upon collaboration behaviors and as a reference for CoBi’s collaboration support.
CoBi uses microphones and language understanding to detect expressions of community agreements while learners engage in collaborative activities. These examples, or ‘noticings’, are then turned into various types of visual feedback that a learning community can use to think expansively about collaboration as a foundational skill and how it manifests in their co-located collaborations.
