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Squirrel AI: Edtech's AI-based personalized tutoring eases load for students and teachers

  • China
  • 6 min read
  • Aug 19, 2020
  • By Li Yuan

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Used by more than 3m students, unicorn Squirrel AI tracks learning outcomes in real time and adapts teaching, proving more effective than traditional methods

Confucius advocated personalized tutoring 2,500 years ago in China. Students should be taught according to their aptitudes, he believed, a view still reflected in the country’s national education policy today. 
In practice, though, there’s been little progress toward personalized tutoring for various reasons, such as the shortage of teachers. When one teacher has to cope with a mixed-ability class of dozens of students every day, it’s hard to offer one-on-one attention to meet the individual needs of each child.
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