Digika releases a new feature "AI Owl" for Sorotouch. Predicts the progress of 10,000 learners and supports children's motivation

When is the day you will move up a level? What is your specialty? How many days until your birthday? We will send a message to your application!

- The following is content from the press release -

Digika Corporation (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Yasunobu Hashimoto, President; hereinafter referred to as "Digika"), developer of Sorotouch, is pleased to announce the release of a new function "AI Owl" to motivate children to learn according to their individual needs.

Background of the development of the function

Sorotouch is a new way to learn mental arithmetic using tablets. There are classrooms in 14 countries and regions around the world, and about 10,000 children are working on the application at home and learning abacus-style mental arithmetic. However, it is not easy for children to continue learning on their own every day, and they need appropriate support. In order to enhance learning absorption, not only hardware elements such as the quality of teaching materials, but also intrinsic motivation is important. In addition to encouragement from parents and teachers based on their own experiences, we have been considering various ways to provide advice to each student based on data that will lead to higher learning effectiveness.

Therefore, we have developed a system in which "AI Owl" analyzes each child's learning history and characteristics and sends messages at appropriate times so that children can engage in learning in an exciting and fun way.

What is AI Owl, a new feature that motivates

AI Owl Messages are delivered to the learning application several times a month and displayed for children to view directly on their own. The messages do not tell children how to learn or how to solve puzzles, but rather speak to them in a way that is in line with the progress they are learning. AI Owl will evolve day by day, analyzing learning history data and progress together with children who work hard every day to draw out their intrinsic motivation. AI Owl is available in Japanese and English.

Choice of Study Courses

Sorotouch's study courses include "online students," who study at home using the app every day, and "classroom students," who have classes once a week in addition to daily home study. Both are based on flipped learning (input at home and output in the classroom or at events). The new AI Owl functionality will be provided for both courses, and will serve as a support tool for children's daily home study, promoting children's learning more widely.

The future that Sorotouch aims for with EdTech

Digika, the provider of Sorotouch, was selected by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) in July 2020 for a demonstration project for the "Classroom of the Future" overseas development support project. Through the AI function of Sorotouch, we will find various learning methods suitable for each student with the help of AI and data, as depicted in the "Classroom of the Future" vision*, and promote a shift in the center of gravity of learning methods from conventional uniform, simultaneous, one-directional classes to self-learning and learning together using EdTech.
*Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry "Classroom of the Future" and EdTech Study Group Second Proposal
https://www.meti.go.jp/shingikai/mono_info_service/mirai_kyoshitsu/pdf/20190625_report.pdf