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Schools Are Using Voice Technology to Teach Reading. Is It Helping?

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A first grade student is trying to read a passage on her iPad. Her face isn’t particularly demonstrative, but she’s trying her best with emphatic pats-on-the-back when the student gets something right. A digital avatar Amira, clad in olive green, is listening. It’s what Megan Van Fossan calls the “lack of bias.”