Re: Duolingo and literacy

[C. Scott Ananian]

SJ and I did get a chance to follow up with him afterward and suggest that
they might considering teaching English literacy directly to non-native
speakers (as we did in our Ethiopia pilot, rather than only teaching
students in their native language; of course DuoLingo doesn't support a
large number of languages, so allowing folks to skip directly to English
would greatly increase their reach).  They are big on A/B tests and
quantification over there, I think we convinced him it was an interesting
hypothesis to test.

SJ asked how one could help with the literacy effort and he gave us some
contract information.  If any of the OLPC crew is interested, drop me (or
SJ) a line and we'll try to hook you up.

I think they might actually be able to make a significant dent in the
literacy problem.
  scott
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Re: Duolingo and literacy

[Gonzalo Odiard]

DuoLingo is one of the few interesting projects about learning in the last
years :/

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 7:58 PM, C. Scott Ananian  wrote:

> I'm in a presentation by Luis von Ahn, founder of DuoLingo, and I asked
> him if he had any plans to expand to literacy.
>
> He replied that they will be releasing a "reading and typing" (not
> writing, which he thought had poor ROI) app next year.
>
> This makes me extremely excited.
>   --scott
>
> PS. I should have followed up re: teaching English literacy directly
> rather than teaching a native language first.
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Duolingo and literacy

[C. Scott Ananian]

I'm in a presentation by Luis von Ahn, founder of DuoLingo, and I asked him
if he had any plans to expand to literacy.

He replied that they will be releasing a "reading and typing" (not writing,
which he thought had poor ROI) app next year.

This makes me extremely excited.
  --scott

PS. I should have followed up re: teaching English literacy directly rather
than teaching a native language first.
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