Conversational Instruction
Your subject-matter expert, available for every learner, every time.
Runs a live instructional dialogue with one learner — diagnosing what they don't yet grasp, explaining at the right level, and adjusting each turn based on their response. Reach for this when you want the quality of a good tutor at the scale of a platform.
Shape
Operational dimensions
Person and system work side-by-side.
Fires when a user asks.
Light state; replaceable any time.
No external systems on either side.
Inputs
- learner utterance + session history
- grounding material (curriculum doc, syllabus, role context)
- optional prior performance signal
Outputs
- instructional response pitched to learner's current level
- in-session understanding signal (per-turn)
- session transcript for downstream coaching or assessment
Mechanism
Conducts turn-by-turn 1:1 dialogue with a learner — diagnoses gap, explains, checks understanding, scaffolds the next turn — all WITHIN a single session.
Why this is a primitive
Cannot be decomposed — the diagnose-explain-check-rescaffold loop is a single conversational operation that happens at the granularity of one utterance. Routing across sessions, scoring of a fixed item, and assessment-of-mastery are different primitives that this one does not perform.
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