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prof. Daniel Hromada DDH ()


prof. Daniel Hromada

Overview of some reading-related prototypes & concepts issued from 6 years of DigiEduBerlin

Inception of a 'Bildunginstrument'

Digitalisation & Reading skills

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Smartphone overuse / uninformed use tends to correlate with low reading scores.

Personal Primer

Personal Primer (is a physical, do-it-yourself (DIY) book-like (embooked) Bildunginstrument for fostering of reading skills in younger pupils and informatic skills in older pupils. The idea is simple:

older and/or more expert students strenghten their informatic competences by making the device and fine-tuning acoustic models

younger ones (9-12 yrs.) pupils strenghten their media competence by producing and curating (audiotext) content youngest (6-8 yrs.)

pupils use the device to strenghten their basic literacy (e.g. reading) competence

some unique features

"embooked" (book-like), voluminous (can contain other objects which contain other objects)

electrophoretic display (e-ink)

endowed with circadian rhythms

voice-based identification / authentication

speech & gesture-based interaction

multi-font and multi-voice

lessons/exercises/OERs loaded from fibel.digital

Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

The Primer is an almost magical, book-like solarpunk artefact with embedded personalized adaptive generative teacher avatar so advanced that it is able to catalyse, by means of education, a transformation of a traumatized orphan into a Queen.

Status: solvable (provided that there is at least one vacant 👑 around)
Approach: fine-tuning of Large Language Models, speech technologies, Raspberry Pi
Inspiration: Neal Stephenson (Diamond Age: or Young Lady's Illustrated Primer)

fibel.digital

 

AUDIOTEXT (palope.digital)

Audio with segmentation information in metadata. Allows creation of sub-title like effects, clickable "cybertext" etc.

HMPL

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Table 1 from article Hromada & Kim (2023) Frontiers in Education

A human-machine peer learning curriculum (i.e., a HMPL-C) is a planned sequence of educational instructions–i.e., a curriculum–which involves:
1. At least one human learner G, H, I, ... which gradually develops her/his/their skill Γ.
2. At least one artificial learner a, b, c, ... which gradually develops its/her/his/their skill σ.
3. Activities by means of which G (resp. H, I, etc.) develops her/his/their skill Γ, which directly involve knowledge and competence exhibited by a (resp. b, c, etc.).
4. Activities by means of which a (resp. b, c, etc.) develops her/his/their skill σ, which directly involve knowledge and competence exhibited by G (resp. H, I, etc.).

Curriculum 1

 

Curriculum 2

reading acquisition

Generative AI

own "large language model" for simplified german (trained on children encyclopedia KinderLexikon) ***

own text-to-speech models

voice cloning

"talking heads" (SadTalker / Automatic1111)

*** huggingface.co/udkai/Spatz

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