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🌍 Cultural Intelligence Explorer – Global Edition with AI Analysis
Developed by Shift Mind AI Labs
The Cultural Intelligence Explorer is an open-source, browser-based learning tool that empowers students, educators, and global citizens to deeply explore world cultures, compare cultural themes, and develop empathy and global citizenship skills. With an integrated AI engine (via your OpenAI API key), users can select any country, focus on cultural themes, receive rich AI-generated insights, reflect on their learning, and receive a personal growth analysis.
🚀 Features
- Explore Any Country: Select from a global list, complete with flags and regions.
- Thematic Focus: Dive into specific cultural themes—family, education, communication, work, food, values, modern challenges, and more.
- AI-Generated Insights: Instantly generate nuanced, non-stereotypical cultural analyses (OpenAI API key required, stored only in your browser).
- Guided Reflection: Respond to evidence-based reflection prompts designed for cultural empathy and self-awareness.
- AI Analysis: Receive a structured AI comparison and growth report between cultural insights and your personal reflections.
- Progress Tracking: Save and revisit your exploration history—each journey is unique!
- Privacy-First: All processing and key storage are client-side; no user data leaves your browser.
🛠 How to Use
- Open the tool in your browser (no installation or login required).
- Select a country to explore, and optionally choose a specific theme.
- Provide your OpenAI API key when prompted (needed for AI features; your key stays private in your browser).
- Generate Cultural Insights: The AI summarizes key values, history, daily life, challenges, and misconceptions for your chosen country and theme.
- Reflect: Complete reflection prompts comparing your culture with the one explored—identify similarities, differences, surprises, and new perspectives.
- Receive AI Analysis: Generate a structured table that analyzes your learning, empathy development, and global citizenship growth.
- Track Your Cultural Journey: Review or revisit your past explorations in the built-in journey log.
- Restart Anytime: Explore as many countries or themes as you like.
👩🏫 For Educators: How It Supports Teaching
- Global Citizenship & SEL: Scaffolded to foster cultural intelligence, perspective-taking, and self-reflection.
- Any Subject or Level: Use in social studies, languages, IB Global Contexts, humanities, and more.
- Portfolio & Assessment Ready: Save and review students’ analysis and reflections for evidence of learning.
- Safe for School Use: No accounts, logins, or central data collection.
👨🎓 For Students: Benefits & Learning Outcomes
- Personalized Global Learning: Choose your own country and cultural theme for maximum relevance.
- Empathy & Critical Thinking: Evidence-based prompts support deep, honest self-reflection and challenge assumptions.
- Skill Growth: AI feedback highlights strengths and growth in cultural intelligence.
- Reflection Portfolio: Use AI analyses as evidence in digital portfolios or class projects.
🔐 Data Privacy Notice
- Your OpenAI API key is only stored locally in your browser.
- No user data is collected, shared, or sent to Shift Mind AI Labs, Hugging Face, or any third party.
- All AI requests go directly from your browser to OpenAI via your key.
📄 License
Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
🧠 About Shift Mind AI Labs
Shift Mind AI Labs builds open-source, ethical AI tools for global learning and citizenship.
🌐 www.shiftmind.io
✉️ info@shiftmind.io
🙌 Contributing
Pull requests, bug reports, and feedback welcome!
For partnerships, integration, or pilots: info@shiftmind.io
Empowering global citizenship—one culture at a time.