Now, students
can outsource their homework’s to an app
Students across the world will be
thrilled to hear that they can now outsource their homework to an app.
Socratic, which is available for free on the App Store, is designed to tackle a
range of subject matter, but has just been updated with enhanced mathematical
capabilities.
Students
need only feed a picture of a question -prin ted or handwritten -to the app,
which will then proceed to work it out.
However,
it won't simply display the right answers. Socratic will go through the correct
methodology with users, who can still learn a thing or two despite their
questionable approach to school work.
“To
build this experience, Socratic's pedagogy team looked through countless math
questions asked by students and categorised them by the steps required to solve
them,“ reads a release from the company . “Then, they wrote high quality
Explainers to teach these concepts, and tested them with hundreds of high
school students.“
The
team behind Socratic says the app's steps closely match those a teacher would
take their students through, and has promised to expand its capabilities across
the sci ences, history , economics and the humanities. “Students can now break
down their question into small steps, allowing them to gain confidence and
learn how to solve similar questions on their own, said Shreyans Bhansali,
Socratic's co-founder and head of engineering.
“We
hope to provide an experience similar to working with a tutor, except it's free
and on your phone.
Source | Times of India | 23 January 2017
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