AutoCognita

 AutoCognita is honored and excited to be selected as one of fourteen EdTech companies to participate in USC Rossier EdVentures Accelerator Program.

 

The program provides individual and group support for each of the selected teams and culminates in a pitching event at the ASU/GVS Conference in San Diego, California, August 9-11, 2021.

AutoCognita and ProLiteracy teamed together to create a Laubach Way to Reading mobile app in Spanish that will be ready to pilot by summer of 2021.

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The collaboration between AutoCognita and ProLiteracy is an excellent example of how two organizations can use their combined expertise to work together to improve literacy levels worldwide.

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ProLiteracy’s Laubach Way to Reading (LWR) curriculum has taught millions of adults to learn to read. AutoCognita’s literacy platform will help ProLiteracy amplify its impact by making its curriculum more accessible to low-literate users all over the world via a mobile app that works offline.

AutoCognita was selected as one of five XPRIZE teams to pitch to YPO members during the YPO|XPRIZE Impact Engine. Over two hundred YPO members from around the world attended the virtual event. 

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After the pitch, several YPO members expressed interest in supporting us. We are currently in discussions with YPO members about running literacy pilots in Africa, India, and Latin America.

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We are grateful to YPO and XPRIZE for their support in helping AutoCognita achieve its mission of creating universal literacy.

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The EdTech Hub’s mission is to accelerate progress toward ending the global learning crisis by increasing the use of evidence to inform decision-making about educational technology. The Hub is funded by the UK Department of International Development, the World Bank, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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The EdTech Hub recognized AutoCognita’s literacy learning platform as a potential solution to the educational crisis brought on by the pandemic and selected us to pitch virtually at the first Covid-19 Pitch Day. 

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After the event, people from USAID and The Catalyst Foundation reached out to us to explore potential partnerships.
 

AutoCognita was selected to present our literacy learning platform at the Global Digital Development Forum, co-organized by USAID, Chemonics, Digital Impact Alliance, IntraHealth International, TechChange, and Save the Children. The forum, held virtually due to Covid-19, brought together stakeholders who were interested in using digital technology to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

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We were honored when UNESCO invited AutoCognita to give a presentation about our mobile literacy app at the 5th Annual Asia-Pacific Meeting on Education 2030 (APMED) held in Bangkok, Thailand on Oct 1-4, 2019. 

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The meeting specifically focused on two targets within Sustainable Development Goal 4:

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Target 4.1 - ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes

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Target 4.6 - ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy

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After the four-day meeting, we came away with an even stronger belief that AutoCognita’s solution— providing literacy lessons on mobile devices— was key to reaching SDG 4.6 by 2030. Teachers simply cannot scale to meet the learning needs of 750 million low-literate youth and adults. Teachers can’t scale, but an app can.

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Our presentation at UNESCO focused on three core strengths of our literacy app—its pedagogy, design, and modularity. A strong pedagogy is the backbone of our app. We teach reading using a structured, step-by-step method backed by science. A strong pedagogy combined with a flexible, modular design allows our app to be easily localized to other languages. 

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After our presentation, several organizations contacted us to explore running pilots in Thailand, Mongolia, China, and Pakistan.

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If you are interested to learn more about our app or presentation, please contact us to set up a time to talk. We’d love to hear from you.

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Tomorrow, at the 2018 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, XPRIZE—the global leader in designing and operating world-changing incentive competitions—and its sponsors, will award $100K to each of the five finalist teams in the $7M Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE, presented by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation. Launched in 2015, the competition challenges teams to develop mobile applications for existing smart devices that result in the greatest increase in literacy skills among participating adult learners...

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AutoCognita (Hong Kong, China) - Led by Frank Ho, the team applies the constructivist learning approach to engage learners through action. Adult learners effectively acquire basic literacy, numeracy and life skills through a comprehensive curriculum and sound pedagogy.

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AutoCognita, an EdTech innovator with a mission to change lives by delivering scalable literacy solutions to underserved adults and children around the world, competed in both the Adult Literacy XPRIZE and the Global Learning XPRIZE.  It is the only team reaching the semifinals in both competitions, marking the first time in XPRIZE history that a single team has reached this milestone in two separate XPRIZE challenges.

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Pictured above:

Left:    Dana Rozier - Head of Content

Right:  Frank Ho - CEO

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