Connect Classroom Standards to Real-World Life.

Helps you connect classroom learning to the authentic experiences

REAL Connections

Design authentic learning experiences aligned to your standards

Output is for personal classroom use only.

Designing Applications...

Finding authentic connections for your standard.

Welcome

Ready to Connect?

Enter your standard and location. The AI will design accessible, classroom-based authentic tasks, with optional community extensions.

Designed with the Connected Classroom Intelligence Suite. © 2025 Connected Classroom.

💡 Why to Use

😓 The Problem You Face

You've heard it a hundred times: "Make learning authentic." "Connect to the real world." But when you're planning a unit on ecosystems or persuasive writing, finding local organizations, designing meaningful tasks, and aligning everything to standards feels like a second job.

So you add a mention of "real-world applications" to your slides and move on.

✨ What REAL Connections Does

REAL Connections takes your standard and location and generates authentic learning applications designed to work inside your classroom. There's optional community extensions you can pursue if time and logistics allow.

You Provide:
  • Your learning standard or objective
  • Grade level and subject
  • Your location (city or region)
  • Rural mode toggle for wider searches
REAL Connections Generates:
  • 3 themed applications — Civic, Creative, Professional, or Empathic
  • Classroom-executable tasks — No field trips required
  • Named local partners — Real orgs for optional outreach
  • Interactive map — Discover resources with one click
  • Full lesson plans — Classroom-ready

🎯 Why This Approach?

We believe authentic learning shouldn't require a permission slip. The core task is always classroom-first and executable with the resources you already have. Community partners are real and local, but they're positioned as extensions, not requirements. You get the authenticity without the logistics nightmare.

🔒 What We Don't Do

🚫 We don't store student data
🚫 We don't require logins or build profiles
🚫 We don't generate tasks that require field trips to complete
✅ We don't invent fake organizations — Partner suggestions are real places in your area

💚 The Bottom Line

REAL Connections brings the world into your classroom so you don't have to take your classroom into the world.

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Dual-Engine Architecture

The Pain: Educators know that authentic learning is essential, but the logistics of real-world projects—finding partners, organizing field trips, managing budget—are often a barrier to entry. This forces us back into abstract, textbook-only lessons that fail to build student agency strategies.

Our Philosophy: The solution is Scaffolded Authenticity. We use a dual-engine approach to design experiences that are rigorous and locally relevant, but always prioritize the Classroom-First model. External connections are an enhancement, not a requirement.

The Tool: REAL Connections combines a pedagogical AI with live geospatial data to instantly generate standards-aligned lessons. It offers accessible, hands-on classroom tasks first, then provides optional, verified community partners to deepen the experience.

We are not a black-box corporation. You deserve to know exactly how this tool works.

Reasoning Engine (Model): Gemini 2.5 Flash (Latest). Selected for its high-speed reasoning and ability to follow complex pedagogical constraints for lesson design.

Geospatial Engine (Data Source): Google Maps Platform (Places API). Community partners are verified using real-time geographic data, not AI hallucinations.

Privacy: No student data is stored. Inputs (standards/locations) are ephemeral. We do not store your search history or build profiles on students or schools.

Ethical Design Logic: Scaffolded Authenticity. The AI is hard-coded to prioritize a rigorous, hands-on, classroom-based core activity before suggesting optional external partners.

Common Questions & Ethical Commitments (FAQ)

  • Yes, this tool is completely free. We cover the cost of the map platform as part of our open-source research initiative. There are no subscriptions.

  • The tool uses a Geospatial Engine (Google Places API) to verify locations against live geographic data. We do not hallucinate partners; we locate real organizations in your city.

  • Yes. Select the "Rural / Wide Search Mode" to expand the search radius to 50km+. The tool is also Classroom-First, meaning the core lesson is always teachable without external partners.

  • No. User inputs (standards and locations) are processed transiently to generate the lesson. We never store, track, or build profiles. Our commitment is to AI ethics for schools.