The Problem
The clock reads 11:00 PM. Your eyelids feel like they have weights attached to them as your eyes struggle to focus on the textbook page. The only thing that is preventing you from passing out is the "due tomorrow" reading deadline. Every student has been in this position before. In an ever-evolving technological era, textbooks prove to be a bland relic that have been in usage for hundreds of years with little fundamental change, and have tortured disinterested students ever since their inception. It is time to adapt textbooks to the technological revolution and make them interesting for all.
The Solution
The solution is Sprout. Sprout is an easy-to-use, intuitive app that allows you to scan textbook pages with your phone and interact with the text further. This includes features such as presenting related educational videos and websites, generating automatic definitions and note pages for the content scanned, and allowing the user to play with AR-interactive models related to the content. With these features and more, students will be able to truly immerse themselves with the information they are learning and cross the barrier between new technology and old techniques. Sprout will truly be a blessing for both distressed teachers and frustrated students who find working with textbooks to be a challenge, and allow for unprecedented "sprouting" of knowledge!
