How Tactile History works
Three on-panel primitives + a teacher dashboard that closes the feedback loop.
Maps
Students circle a border, pick an era chip, and a large vision-language model narrates the history of exactly that region — grounded in primary sources from the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian.
Documents
Pinch-zoom into a 1783 broadside at archival resolution. Tap a hotspot — a region, a phrase, a signature — and the model explains it in plain English, with the transcription overlaid.
Quiz
Generate a 5-question multiple-choice quiz from the current region or document. Answers are scored instantly; the dashboard shows class progress over the year.
Teacher Dashboard
The feedback loop. Every quiz answer, every document tap, every LLM prompt the class issues — all anonymous, all device-keyed — rolls up into a dashboard the teacher can read between classes.
- Class progress over the year, broken out by quiz topic
- Which questions the class struggled with (and which 100% nailed)
- Documents the class spent the most time on
- Standards alignment per quiz (C3 tags, state standards)
- Per-student view: opt-in, with parent consent
Built for classroom panels
- 1280×800 minimum, scales to 4K
- All-day battery-friendly (no heavy compute on the panel)
- Offline content packs: LLM degrades gracefully
- FERPA-compliant: no student PII collected
Standards-aligned
- C3 Framework tags on every document
- Aligned to state standards (TX, CA, NY, MA)
- Lesson-plan library (P6.3)
- Educator discount available