I have built a pilot project for the school my wife is currently teaching at (pacific northwest area). She seems to genuinely find it useful, and I was hoping to get more perspective and reality checks from this corner of the web. The project is b...


I have built a pilot project for the school my wife is currently teaching at (pacific northwest area). She seems to genuinely find it useful, and I was hoping to get more perspective and reality checks from this corner of the web. The project is basically this - use authentic classroom texts (books and worksheets teachers are already using) to get frequent formative oral reading fluency assessments. This is done using an ipad / chromebook PWA (progressive web app) along with a headset / mic. The idea is for the student to read from the book (rather than a screen), while the app silently collects the data and transmits it to the teacher's google classroom. I am using 3 separate ASR (automatic speech recognition) with my home PC serving as the backend. I am using 3 due to the inherent limitations of ASRs (they don't "hear" the same way a teacher's ear does). The capturing of the reference text is done through multiple OCR and GEMINI passes. The flow is: 1) student taps their name on ipad, puts on headset, and taps record 2) student reads for up to 10 minutes 3) student takes a picture of the reference text. 4) student is presented with a few optional comprehension and prosody type games / feedback based on their recent recording. 5) simplified and detailed reports are automatically sent to the teacher's google drive for use in progress monitoring. submitted by /u/Ataturkle [link] [comments]