Success Stories
Discover how SMILE is transforming education and empowering students and educators around the world.
Featured Success Story
How Roosevelt High School increased student engagement by 85%
"After implementing SMILE in our classrooms, we saw unprecedented levels of student participation. Students who were previously disengaged started actively contributing to discussions and helping their peers. The collaborative features made learning feel more like a community effort than individual competition."
Student Voices
Authentic quotes from students and research findings about student engagement with SMILE.
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Published research and case studies documenting SMILE's impact on learning engagement.
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How SMILE transforms teaching practices and classroom dynamics according to educational research.
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"What I like most about this activity is that I could make up my own question and other kids could read my questions and answer them."
"Students very much enjoyed creating, sharing, and answering their own questions, which helped them learn by exposing them to new ideas."
"SMILE successfully spurs student questioning and changes student–teacher dynamics in class."
Research & Academic Impact
"SMILE provides multiple means of engagement: with content, peers, and instructors."
"SMILE enables learners to construct inquiries around their own contexts — such as health issues in their communities — enhancing relevance and agency."
"SMILE is a mobile learning platform designed to cause a paradigm shift within education by enabling students to be active agents in their own learning."
"The quality of the student-generated question is the evidence of learning outcomes, not test scores."
"SMILE turns a traditional classroom into a highly interactive learning environment, engaging students in critical reasoning and problem solving while generating, sharing, and evaluating multimedia-rich inquiries."
Pedagogical Innovation
"SMILE engages students in an active learning process by encouraging them to ask, share, answer, and evaluate their own questions."
"Teachers using SMILE play more the role of a coach or facilitator, shifting away from being the sole source of knowledge."
SMILE Platform Core Features
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