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Building the Citizen Literacy Railway: Learning Design

Learning Design

Creating the Learning Design for the App – we are one step ahead of the coders!

December 6, 2020

Feedback Updates

Development

We are receiving really useful and thoughtful feedback in our testing exercise. Thanks everyone!

September 30, 2020

Nesta AI for Good Report: Accents Project

DevelopmentMachine Learning

Involvement with the Nesta AI for Good programme has changed our perspective from being ‘consumers’ of AI to being ‘producers’ of AI!

September 28, 2020

Supporting Teachers

DevelopmentLearning DesignTools for Remote Learning

We need to support adult literacy teachers as much as we can. We are doing this is by creating Teacher Handbooks and Student Workbook,. Plus ‘just in time’ teacher training videos from our YouTube channel.

September 28, 2020

Dealing with Accents: Progress

DevelopmentMachine Learning

Making our App learn from the student: AI machine learning embedded in EdTech.

July 28, 2020

Accents & Machine Learning

DevelopmentMachine Learning

Dealing With Accents is not easy. there are basic issues regarding single words with no context given as you would have in a sentence and beyond that, there are accents!

June 29, 2020

We All Love Gadgets

GadgetsTools for Remote Learning

A big thanks to our team member, Claire Collins for sharing a couple of very useful tools in the Monday meet up today. They both could be worth checking out as teaching aids in these challenging times. We can only Read more…

June 22, 2020

Version 0.4

Development

Time to start looking at the real world user interface. Understanding the personas likely to use the app, we have many considerations to make. Colour blindness, dyslexia and mobility must be considered. Figma is an excellent tool for quickly experimenting, Read more…

June 1, 2020

Version 0.3

Development

After much work by the Learning Design team, we now start to see a structure of materials forming. This allows us to start creating a JSON document describing key attributes of each lesson and its associated activities. This structure has Read more…

May 26, 2020

Version 0.2

Development

In this version we start to introduce audio instructions and experiment with visual cues to sync the audio to the interface elements. CSS is being used to run animations. This is a consideration made to save the user battery. We Read more…

May 12, 2020

Reading and Writing for Everyone