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EFFECTIVE & RELIABLE SPEECH TRAINER

TRAINING WITH TECH

The method in which children receive knowledge has changed from last time we were in schools. It is becoming more specific for their individual differentiation and customized in a way that facilitates perception and hence the practice of knowledge. Our project is based on learning theories that enhance the perception of knowledge and make it easier and faster.

We are focusing on this product on visual learning as one of the most powerful ways to present different information to the student to support learning. Visual learning has a psychological basis that we refer to Gestalt’s theory which developed the visual learning principles.

Literacy training that our project is providing to the students is based on a very known application game called WORD based on four pictures for one word. It is a way to make the brain collect information from 4 pictures to make it focus on one single word. In this way, students with literacy problem will go through a visualization of the word then a thinking activity before writing the word. The letters that compose the word will be mixed with other letters and the user has to find the letters that reflect the meaning he is getting from the 4 pictures.

PRODUCT

HOW DOES

IT WORK?

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Interactive

board

MakeMeTalk is an interactive board provided with an application that helps students interact with a virtual speaker. This latter will be used to call out for the student, greet him and ask him questions about a specific topic.

The virtual speaker will launch a gallery to show to the student some pictures related to the topic for guidance. Those pictures will help the student speaking with more fluency and construct meaningful sentences.

The smart board is a touch screen that helps the student interact with the virtual personalized learning. He can use touch feature to: call the interactive speaker, to choose the topic he wants to talk about, or even to play an interactive game with his/her peers.

The screen can provide a range of options like to connect the parents for instant watch. It can generate detailed report about the fluency of the student or the time spent on the activity or even a comparison between the child's competency and his peers.

MakeMeTalk can be adjusted according to the schools’ curriculum to accommodate the screen’s content according to the school needs for assessment.

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Speech support

If your child or your student struggles with speech and spelling tests, this Tech allows parents or teachers to provide speech training at home or in the classroom. Our device is a personalized and symbols-supported conversation tool. It is designed to foster language use and conversation skills for those who don't feel confident to speak in front of their peers. It is built to replace the real teacher by a virtual one who asks questions to the learners and provides help in sentence building and articulation. It is an easy tool to use by primary learners and has features and benefits that allow fun competitions with different learning games.

MakeMeTalk system can support the learner with pictures to organize ideas, applications of spelling games to create words to match with the given clues and pictures supported with hints to help learners with different abilities.

In addition, the system can foster the sense of curiosity in looking, asking and searching to win the given quizzes. Visualization of learned words can enhance memorization of the given spelling words to be stored in their long-term memories. There is also a recording feature that allows the learner to listen to his training session and work on it with his parents at home.

What I have learned from my teaching experience throughout the years in teaching a foreign language (English), is that there are many parents who are not able to help their primary children at home to do simple literacy tasks like reading and writing. Thus, student’s outcome can be very unsatisfying compared to another child that has the right help at home. At this stage, our tool can provide all necessary training at home as well as it has a cloud storage online connected to provide the required help at home similarly as a home tutor. The training can be personalized by the teacher to tailor it according to the learner’s need.

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Literacy support

MakeMeTalk influences literacy development in primary students. It gives students the opportunity to engage in different virtual games which encourage them to compete with their peers while learning.

It encourages students to practice spelling activities through engaging app that the interactive board will provide. The purpose of all of this is to enhance their independent training.

Writing and reading literacy can be provided based on 4 pictures one word. it is a visual learning that enhances writing skills and makes spelling training an easy activity for learners at school.

TEAM VISION

OUR STORY

We are group project members who work in the field of education. We have long experiences behind that allows us to understand the real issues every child is facing during his learning process. We decided to use our interest in education and blend it with our expertise in e-education to come out with a technological tool that facilitates and solves one of the most educational issues in primary schools which is speech literacy.

OUR VISION

Our vision is to engage primary students in virtual training to improve their speech and spelling skills and increase their self-confidence. This technological tool will give them a fun experience during the speech and spelling training sessions. The goal of providing such a tool to the schools is to get high results and improve students level and fluency in languages. Also, to provide speech and spelling support for schools with high capacity classrooms and establish independent training for each student.

TECHNOLOGY

Speech and conversation skills are core elements in human relationship. MakeMeTalk offers the potentials to meet the needs of visual literacy with technology. This latter is carving out a special role in boosting those skills and how machines/devices are helping young learners to make themselves understood. Speech depends on ideas, thoughts or visuals stored in our brain to be interpreted by symbols and words and to make a logic conversation. We tried to connect the whole system to the network rather than just focusing on getting learners to speak. Our technological tool can motivate the learners with games and different activities that would help them with forming words and sentences as a result of a significant progression on learner’s conversational performance. Such progression can be generated automatically to a students’ report for teachers use and parents as well.

Technology is one of the most important tools that can motivate young learners and open for them the chance to have a personalized learning with no extra cost. Our technological tool has an extra application downloadable on any individual device so that students can enhance their training by at home practice

ABOUT

FEATURES

Cloud Storage

MakeMeTalk is a place where all reports, virtual discussions, speech trainings and literacy practices are stored. These tracks can be reviewed by teachers, educators, parents or school leaders whenever it needs to measure students’ progression. Schools using cloud platforms can help the parents to access to their children’s training at any time. They can make a collage of the most successful training and post it on their social media platforms as an advertisement.

They can make a collage of the most successful training and post it on their social media platforms as an advertisement. They can give access to the students to practice at home on how to use MakeMeTalk virtual screen and familiarize with the application before going to the school for onsite practice. Consistent reports can be provided automatically or manually by the teachers to help them evaluate their students’ progression and know their gaps and how to direct the training to improve their outcome.

Parent's Interaction

MakeMeTak is a cross-platform mobile application that includes a parent’s most needed functionalities in a single app. It supports parents in following up their children’s performance and their speaking improvement at the same time.

Our tool helps students to interact with the virtual personalized learning. There are many features for student’s interaction such as writing, speaking, and listening. The aim is to increase the students’ interaction and motivate them to learn and make them more comfortable to speak in an open space. The smart screen allows them to play interactive games with peers inside the school and outside which encourages the collaborative learning as well.

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Student's report

MakeMeTalk can be managed in a way that generates personalized reports for each learner. It is a feature that can make customized learning an easy task for the teacher.

Teacher's management

MakeMeTalk has many ways to help the educators in guiding their learners to the right training. Their tasks can basically be described as follows:

Adding the students' lists to the training program.
Creating a student’s personal profile and connecting the parents;
Personalizing the learning level for each student;
Rewarding and motivating the students;
Providing the right instructions for the use of the training tool MakeMeTalk.
Prepare effective levelled competitions and games to allow all students to engage.