Saturday, September 13, 2008

Adaptive Learning Program

As children, we build our language through repetition and visual connections. As young adults and older adults, learning a new language is always difficult and mostly it is because we don't learn the language in the same exciting way that we did when we were younger. A new learning program called "Rosetta Stone" uses a combination of images, repetition, and speech recognition to deliver an effective teaching AND learning tool.








It creates a better learning environment for someone with for example, learning disablities, who may have traditionally not been able to pick up an additional language effectively. This program goes back to the root concept of learning our first language as children. It caters to all visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles. In addition, if there are more successful results for an individual within the program, you can focus in on it for even better results. What is even more exciting is that this program has the capability of "listening" to your speech and recognizing whether it is correct usage and sound of the phrases. If you make multiple errors, it will play back the audio it heard in comparison to how the phrase actually should sound. In turn, you are able to self-evaluate and learn how to correctly say something.

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