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Friday, January 03, 2020

Assistant Telling Stories in the Classroom

Other examples of this out there?  I would rather have kids reading for themselves.   The basics still mean something.

Alexa in the classroom? Amazon’s voice assistant leads kids’ story time   By  Matt Day

The group of kids, aged 7 to 12, sat around a table, trying to follow along with the reading assignment. It was after lunch. Energy was high, attention spans short.

Nobody held books, though. And a teacher wasn’t reading.

Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa was conducting story time, queuing up professional narrators to read the story aloud, quizzing the kids in its robot voice and offering hints when someone flubbed an answer to questions about “Davy Duck’s Grumpy Day.”

Voice software has colonized smartphones, car dashboards and the living room. If the technology follows the trail blazed by tablet and cloud computing, the next frontier may be the classroom. ... "

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