A global test is underway: Just how well can students learn on their own, through software, without a teacher?
"It's important to recognize these resources do not take the place of quality teaching and that not all tools are designed for all types of students," said Kara Dawson, a professor of educational technology at the University of Florida.How well do language-learning apps work?
Before the pandemic, Rosetta Stone was serving 17,000 schools and 4 million students with English literacy and foreign-language services, said Maya Goodall, a company director. That number is now much higher. Even Oreopoulos downloaded Duolingo for his children, ages 11 and 9, when their Toronto schools shut down three weeks ago.
Carlos-Luis Brown, a Spanish teacher at Wilmington High School in Massachusetts, said he's used Duolingo for at least four years to supplement instruction — it's part of his students' graded homework.
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