How a Teacher Built an AI Reading Recommendation App Through Vibe Coding
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A UK-trained primary school teacher with 11 years of experience describes how they built an AI-powered reading recommendation system ("vibe coded" app) to generate student excitement about their school's library catalog. The article shares lessons learned from a year of building the tool, including the challenges of vibe coding (using AI to generate code without deep programming knowledge), the importance of user testing with students, and how the app ultimately sparked a love of reading in the classroom. The piece reflects on the intersection of AI, education, and literacy motivation.
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· 3 pulledI have had big ideas before. Ideas that felt urgent and important at 11 p.m. and somehow evaporated by morning.
Just go for it.
By November, my vibe-coded app was live in my classroom.
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