Videos
Our inter-active mobile app can let a billion people learn to read English. We offer 200 short lessons per year for 7 years - 1,400 in all. Everything is self-paced.
How the Thor English reading lessons work. A demonstration of Lesson 1, by our Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dan Esbensen. (three minutes)
The people at the Berkeley Haas School of Business made a video, about their work to bring our reading lessons to the public schools in a large Indian state. The video is available from Berkeley.
Students trying the Thor Reading Program for the first time, in San Jose, CA, May 2016. A demonstration by our Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dan Esbensen. (seven minutes)
Children in an orphanage, in Hyderabad, India, using Thor for the first time, August 2016. (six minutes)
Interview with Finau, a 3rd grader, in East Palo Alto, CA, October 2017. (six minutes)
Interview with Celena, a 5th grader, in East Palo Alto, CA, October 2017. (three minutes)
Interview with Jonathan, a 4th grader, in East Palo Alto, CA, October 2017. (three minutes)
Students using Thor in Assam, India, February 2018. This shows how to use Thor in a group, when the students don’t have their own internet connections. Repeating the words allows practice in speaking English. The students develop an excellent American accent! (one minute)
Sugata Mitra
Sugata's famous Hole in the Wall Experiment showed that curiosity alone can lead children to use computers. More amazingly, they can learn almost anything, working in small groups. Here's a link to his best speech. (seventeen minutes)
Daphne Koller
This is a wonderful TED Talk – an inspiration to everyone who is working with technology to improve education for everyone. Here's a link to her speech. (twenty minut)
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