The Wobo blog
What we learn while building a tutor, written down: how to read a syllabus document, what a board actually changed this year, and what a machine can and cannot do for a learner.
6 posts, newest first.
How to read a syllabus document and know it is current
Four checks tell you whether the syllabus in front of you is the one your board is actually setting this year, and all four take about five minutes.
What changed in the CBSE syllabus this year, with the document for each change
The middle stage is being taught out of new books with new chapter names, and two reading traps sit in the secondary documents. Each one cited to its page.
Why a drawn explanation lands where a finished diagram does not
A drawing carries the order the thinking happened in, and the order is most of the explanation. A finished picture has already thrown that away.
What to look for in a tutoring app, as the person paying for it
Seven questions worth asking of any tutoring app, why each one matters, and our own answers to all seven, including the ones that are not finished.
How a doubt gets solved from a photograph, step by step
What happens between photographing a page and understanding it, why the reading is shown back before any answer, and where this still fails.
What an AI tutor cannot do, said plainly
Eight things a machine tutor cannot do for your child, what we build instead of pretending otherwise, and the one thing it is genuinely good at.
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