How we teach.
From individual concepts to connected understanding.
Five principles
These are design principles for the learning experience and the products, not rigid steps every learner must follow.
Break it down. Make it clear. Connect the ideas. We combine structured curriculum knowledge, explicit explanations, worked examples, connected learning maps and complementary learning tools to help make the path from information to understanding clearer.
Break it down
Translate curriculum requirements into clearly structured, manageable knowledge units, ordered by meaningful learning prerequisites.
Teach it explicitly
Explain what each concept means, why it works, how to use it, and the reasoning behind methods and worked examples.
Reveal the connections
Make relevant relationships visible: prerequisites, shared principles, applications, similarities and links across subjects.
Explore and apply
Use problem solving, concept visualisations, personalised study and purposeful practice to extend understanding.
Reflect and progress
Use assessment, feedback, learning records and further study to identify what is understood and what should come next.
One concept across the products
Proportional reasoning in Mathematics is applied in map scales in Geography, constant speed in Physics and solution dilution in Chemistry.
One underlying relationship has several meaningful applications. EdDots shows the shared structure, how each subject applies it and where the analogy has limits.
Mathematics
Proportional reasoning
y = kx
The ratio y/x stays constant: it is k.
Geography
Map scale
Scale 1 : 25 000
4 cm on the map is 1 km on the ground.
Limit: areas scale by the square, so 1 cm² is 6.25 ha.
Physics
Constant speed
d = vt, with v = 60 km/h
2 h → 120 km
Limit: true only while the speed stays constant.
Chemistry
Dilution
c₁V₁ = c₂V₂ for a fixed amount of solute
Double the volume, halve the concentration.
Limit: an inverse proportion: c × V stays constant, not c ÷ V.
Defines the concept, the knowledge it needs first, and its links to ratios, percentages, scale, constant rates and applications in other subjects.
Teaches the full curriculum-aligned lesson, with the calculations, the underlying relationships and worked examples.
Builds a personalised 60-minute revision lesson on proportional reasoning, ratios and their applications.
Explains one map-scale problem: the solution first, then the reasoning step by step.
Lets learners change the quantities in a proportional relationship and see what stays constant.
Helps a teacher prepare a lesson plan, worksheet, assessment or rubric linked to the same concepts.
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Lets a family plan the activity, record completed work and connect it to curriculum progress.
One conceptual foundation. Seven different educational responsibilities.
How we label our content
Every piece of content carries one of these states, and we never present one as another.
- Curriculum mapped
- The concept is placed against the curriculum outcomes it serves. Nothing is written yet.
- Lesson defined
- The Learning Map names the Notebook lesson the concept needs.
- Lesson drafted
- A full Notebook lesson is written and waiting for review.
- Lesson reviewed
- The lesson has been checked against the EdDots teaching standard.
- Lesson published
- The reviewed lesson is open to learners.
- AI-generated resource
- Written by AI for one learner’s or one teacher’s request, and labelled as AI-generated.
- AI resource, automatically checked
- Automated checks have tested it. That is not a review by an educator.
- AI resource, reviewed by an educator
- An authorised educator has read and approved it.
- A curriculum map is not proof that every lesson is written and checked.
- An automated check is not a professional review.
- An AI-generated resource never quietly becomes a Notebook lesson.
- Assessment questions stay separate from practice questions.
One standard for our AI
Study Builder, the Problem Solver and Class Studio use AI under one shared standard. Each product keeps its own format; the rules are the same.
- Stay within the curriculum scope that was asked for, and say when information is missing.
- Use authorised sources, and never invent references or links.
- Explain the reasoning in age-appropriate language, without distracting extras.
- Show meaningful connections, and keep facts apart from assumptions.
- Check results that can be checked, and follow the EdDots visual rules.
- Label AI-generated content, protect privacy and keep restricted assessment content out.
- Keep a versioned record of each output and its review status.
Four rules hold it together
- The Learning Map is the source of structural truth.
- The Notebook sets the teaching standard.
- AI is governed centrally, and each product’s output fits its own purpose.
- Generated and verified content always stay distinguishable.