<p dir="ltr">SJ and I did get a chance to follow up with him afterward and suggest that they might considering teaching English literacy directly to non-native speakers (as we did in our Ethiopia pilot, rather than only teaching students in their native language; of course DuoLingo doesn't support a large number of languages, so allowing folks to skip directly to English would greatly increase their reach). They are big on A/B tests and quantification over there, I think we convinced him it was an interesting hypothesis to test.</p>
<p dir="ltr">SJ asked how one could help with the literacy effort and he gave us some contract information. If any of the OLPC crew is interested, drop me (or SJ) a line and we'll try to hook you up.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I think they might actually be able to make a significant dent in the literacy problem.<br>
----scott</p>