Why we built it
I teach at a summer school, and I noticed something almost immediately: kids don’t pay attention to slideshows.
It doesn’t matter how well they’re designed. The slides go up, students tune out, and the teacher has to work twice as hard to keep everyone engaged.
So we built Clascade. Not another AI demo — something a teacher could open on Monday morning and actually use with the material they’d already prepared.
What mattered
- i
Teacher stays in control
Every phase of the lesson is driven from the teacher’s own screen. No student can rush ahead of the class.
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Grounded, not guessed
Every AI-generated fact is grounded in trusted sources with citations the teacher can review before the lesson runs.
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Safe by default
Every generated scene is checked for age appropriateness before a student ever sees it.
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Powered by Gemini
Gemini reads the lesson slides, generates the interactive experience, grounds the content, and helps keep every lesson classroom-safe.
Try the lessons
Three lessons generated with Clascade. I’ve run two of these with my own class.
Limit Drop
Calculus limits, turned into something students play rather than watch.
Open lesson ↗ HistorySarajevo 1914
The outbreak of the First World War, explored as a place instead of a timeline.
Open lesson ↗ BiologyClascade Biology
A biology unit rebuilt as a 3D environment the class moves through together.
Open lesson ↗Desktop only — these lessons are built for a full-size screen and won’t render properly on mobile.
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Team
- Omar Ibrahim
- Akash Nagabhirava
- Larry Wang
- Dzhanybek Zakiriiaev