Inspiration
As of fall 2019, there are approximately 5.12 million English Second Language, or ESL, students in the US. With the sudden hit of COVID, their learning has been severely impacted. From anecdotal insights, we learned that students are often left behind in daily lessons because they don't understand words or phrases being used. We want to create a system that simultaneously engages students, and also helps them review new words they learn.
What it does
Students upload the document they are using in class, we will parse the document and select nouns. We correlate the nouns with the translation of the word in the user's original language, alongside a relevant image, to ensure visual learning. According to Southern Oklahoma State University, "visual tools help ELLs grasp new ideas, access previous knowledge and gain confidence in using the new language (English)."
How we built it
We used HTML, CSS and JavaScript for the extension, and also used PDFJS and JSON to parse the pdfs and create a local database.
Challenges we ran into
Trying to update the extension in real-time with the vocab words.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Working on an impactful project, and completing it!
What we learned
We learned a lot of skills in different areas, such as how to use JSON as a local database in terms of technical skills, but we also learned time and project management to make the development as efficient as possible.
What's next for Easyle
Developing a more stable release, adding more native languages, and integrating into popular ed-tech tools like Google Classroom.
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