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Experienced Awards: Disruptive technology
Dialogus by CultivArte
Solution details
Dialogus integrates AI and creativity for interactive, individualized learning through avatars, icons, or historical figures. It offers Speech, Conversation, and Quiz modes, enhancing education by teaching essential skills and concepts, promoting accessibility and growth.
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AI-powered characters that narrate, quiz, and converse in real-time. Offering the next level of personalization with individualization, Dialogus sparks curiosity, builds skills, and redefines the future of learning.
CultivArte
Resources
The platform leverages advanced AI technologies, pedagogical tools, and an intuitive interface to create immersive learning experiences, fostering engagement and development for students and educators.
Context
The challenge being addressed focuses on bridging the gap in current educational systems by integrating the development of soft skills alongside technical knowledge. The world evolves rapidly, yet education often fails to become a true catalyst for human flourishing. This proposal aims to overcome critical issues such as the lack of soft skills in basic education, boredom in classrooms, and limited attention spans. Surveys reveal that students feel disengaged due to uninteresting and irrelevant material, while essential competencies like leadership, empathy, and critical thinking remain underdeveloped. By combining artificial intelligence with pedagogical creativity, the platform introduces interactive and immersive learning experiences. Through dynamic characters and tools, it addresses the disconnection between students and content, fosters both cognitive and emotional growth, and creates a personalized educational environment essential for holistic development.
Who Benefits?
The target group includes students, educators, and institutions. Students benefit from an engaging, personalized learning experience that enhances both hard and soft skills such as leadership, empathy, and critical thinking, preparing them for academic and professional success. Educators gain a powerful, user-friendly tool to create immersive lessons, saving time with automated reports while fostering deeper student connections. Institutions can position themselves as innovative leaders by adopting cutting-edge technology, reducing dropout rates, and aligning education with global trends. This solution transforms traditional classrooms into dynamic environments, promoting curiosity, knowledge retention, and holistic development, while making quality education accessible and scalable across diverse contexts.
Impact
The impact of our solution lies in transforming education into a dynamic, personalized experience that fosters both academic and personal growth. Dialogus equips students with essential soft skills—leadership, empathy, critical thinking—while improving engagement and knowledge retention. Educators benefit from reduced workload and actionable insights through detailed AI-generated reports, enhancing teaching efficiency and student outcomes. Institutions can reduce dropout rates and align education with global technological and workforce demands. To measure impact, we employ quantitative and qualitative metrics. Key indicators include student engagement levels, improvement in academic performance, and development of soft skills through pre- and post-assessments. Teacher feedback and user satisfaction surveys gauge effectiveness and adoption rates. Our real-time analytics and reporting capabilities provide detailed insights, enabling us to monitor usage, refine features, and ensure continuous improvement in delivering transformative educational experiences
Team work
Our team is a multidisciplinary group of passionate innovators dedicated to transforming education. Comprised of Paola Sosa, Ricardo Barajas, Eduardo Macedo, and Rogelio Díaz, we unite diverse skills to create impactful solutions. Each member contributes unique expertise, from developing AI-driven tools to crafting sustainable business models and ensuring the platform aligns with global educational needs. Collaboration is at the core of our process, enabling the integration of cutting-edge technology with creative pedagogy. Guided by shared values and a commitment to human flourishing, we work together to design, validate, and implement solutions that empower students, educators, and institutions worldwide.
Innovativeness
Our solution stands out due to its unique integration of advanced AI technologies into education, creating immersive, personalized learning experiences that bridge cognitive and emotional development. Unlike existing platforms, Dialogus combines dynamic storytelling, interactive conversations, and gamified assessments, addressing both hard and soft skills in a single, adaptable framework. This holistic approach fosters leadership, empathy, and creativity, all while tailoring the experience to individual needs. The innovative nature of Dialogus lies in its seamless combination of multiple AI systems—speech synthesis, conversational AI, and real-time analysis—into an intuitive tool for educators. This integration represents a novel application in education, making the platform highly patentable. No similar solution currently offers this level of interaction, adaptability, and pedagogical depth in one platform. Dialogus sets a new standard in educational technology, with the potential to redefine learning and become a market leader
Transferability
Our solution is highly transferable across diverse educational contexts and disciplines due to its modular and adaptable design. Dialogus can seamlessly integrate into various subjects, from STEM fields to humanities, by customizing AI-generated characters and interactive tools to suit specific learning objectives. Its focus on developing soft skills such as leadership, critical thinking, and empathy makes it applicable beyond traditional classrooms, including corporate training, lifelong learning, and community education programs.The platform’s core features—speech, conversation, and quiz modes—are versatile, allowing their use in different educational systems, languages, and cultural contexts. For instance, Dialogus could support vocational training with characters simulating real-world scenarios or assist in socio-emotional learning in under-resourced schools. Its web-based nature ensures accessibility, and its adaptability enables educators and institutions to tailor it to their unique needs, ensuring impactful learning across a wide range of contexts.-
Sustainability
Our solution's sustainability is deeply rooted in the foundation of CultivArte, our established civil organization dedicated to educational impact. With CultivArte’s robust network, including 45 schools across Mexico and over 4,600 students reached annually, we are poised for immediate implementation. Our proven track record includes delivering free soft skills programs, hosting global presentations in venues like the Roman Colosseum, and earning accolades such as the Rise Awards and the State Youth Award. This foundation ensures that Dialogus can seamlessly integrate into existing programs, leveraging our partnerships and expertise. In the mid-term, we aim to expand Dialogus regionally through our network and refine its features based on real-world feedback from students and educators. Long-term, we envision a global reach, offering Dialogus to diverse institutions while bridging digital divides. CultivArte’s infrastructure and mission align perfectly with this vision, ensuring sustained growth, measurable impact, and a transformative role in education worldwide.