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To Build Voice Recognition for Early Literacy, Soapbox Labs Gives Kids a Voice

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She is an engineer who holds a doctorate in speech-recognition technology, and has spent the past two decades researching this field at Columbia University, IBM and Bell Laboratories. Some offered multiple-choice questions, for instance, that simply asked kids to pick the correct pronunciation—hardly a useful exercise.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Turning classrooms into learning laboratories For the learning engineers back at CMU, the goal is not to put digital tutors in every classroom. The Nudge tool is a system for scheduling text messages that pose short questions to students that prompt them to recall things they’ve learned in class after a certain amount of time.

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