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."

— Ms. Jennifer Lopez, Principal, Roosevelt High School, Chicago

Student Voices

Authentic quotes from students and research findings about student engagement with SMILE.

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Academic Research

Published research and case studies documenting SMILE's impact on learning engagement.

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Pedagogical Innovation

How SMILE transforms teaching practices and classroom dynamics according to educational research.

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Student Voices & Research Findings

"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."
— Elementary school student, SMILE pilot study (2011, WorldComp Proceedings)
"Students very much enjoyed creating, sharing, and answering their own questions, which helped them learn by exposing them to new ideas."
— Stanford University (2011)
"SMILE successfully spurs student questioning and changes student–teacher dynamics in class."
— UNESCO Prospects journal (2014)

Research & Academic Impact

"SMILE provides multiple means of engagement: with content, peers, and instructors."
— Case Study on Student Engagement with SMILE (2016)
"SMILE enables learners to construct inquiries around their own contexts — such as health issues in their communities — enhancing relevance and agency."
— Healthcare Informatics Research (2016)
"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."
— UNESCO ICT in Education Multimedia Archives (2013)
"The quality of the student-generated question is the evidence of learning outcomes, not test scores."
— UNESCO (2013)
"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."
— Silver Lining for Learning Podcast (2020)

Pedagogical Innovation

"SMILE engages students in an active learning process by encouraging them to ask, share, answer, and evaluate their own questions."
— Seeds of Empowerment documentation
"Teachers using SMILE play more the role of a coach or facilitator, shifting away from being the sole source of knowledge."
— Stanford University research

SMILE Platform Core Features

Student-generated questions
Peer-to-peer sharing
Mobile learning platform
Critical reasoning development
Collaborative learning environment
Multimedia-rich inquiries

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