Education, particularly in STEM and social sciences, often struggles to engage students due to traditional teaching methods that feel detached from their interests. Meanwhile, students dedicate significant time to exploring fictional universes like Harry Potter, Marvel, and Star Wars, which captivate their imaginations with vivid narratives. Teachers, constrained by time and resources, cannot tailor lessons to each student’s personal interests or provide dynamic analogies that resonate with diverse learners.
This disconnect inspired ConceptualTales, a conversational AI platform designed to make learning more relatable, personalized, and engaging by using these fictional worlds to explain academic concepts. Using large language models, the platform creates personalized analogies between academic concepts and characters, events, or themes from beloved story worlds. For example, it might explain the concept of genetic inheritance by likening it to Harry Potter inheriting magical abilities from his parents.
Students interact with the AI through a customized interface where they can select their favorite fictional universe, ask questions, and receive answers grounded in both academic rigor and imaginative storytelling.