StartupRealities

StartupRealities No 81 StoryFinder is a crowdsourcing and AI company that collects interesting stories for use in education, government, politics and the media. The company's AI bot trawls Wikipedia, news websites and school textbooks for interesting stories that can be repurposed and used in different ways. StoryFinder also crowdsources stories from the public in the format of various competitions and entertainment games. The company publishes a series of popular books called "100 Stories on ...". CEO QUOTE "Stories are fascinating education and learning tools. No one can resist a speaker who starts with 'Let me tell you a story.' What if the entire school curriculum could be put in 10,000 stories? Would so many children still reject formal education then?" - asked company founder and CEO Stormy Finn. Storyteller (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 39 LearnFromMovies is a ratings company that evaluates the educational and learning content of films. The company's assessors rate the number of educational topics and depth of explanations contained in a movie, and also to what degree a movie may nudge the viewer to explore topics further. CEO QUOTE "The inspiration to create LearnFromMovies came from listening to actor Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) talk on BBC radio about how much he had learned from watching The Simpsons. If Homer Simpson can teach Harry Potter anything, surely a good movie can teach your kids a lot too," said company founder and CEO Leo Mowett. "Why can't every movie be a Sesame Street? Or at least Aladdin's Cave?" - asked Mowett metaphorically. Michelle Obama and Big Bird in Sesame Street, 2013 (Source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 22 RockLinguist Limited is a group of foreign-language teaching schools which use guitar players as language teachers and all language learning occurs through foreign language songs and lyrics. SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION A series of research papers (the most recent from McGill University published on February 27 , 2020) show that there is a connection between music and speech in the human brain. This explains why it is much easier to remember a sentence that has a tune attached to it: "I want to hold your hand" is easy-peasy when you sing it like the Beatles. INTERVIEW WITH THE CEO "When you sign up for a RockLinguist course in English, you are virtually joining a rock band. Seriously!" said company founder and CEO Rochelle Lingers. "Our language teachers play the guitar to their students for half of the duration of the class. They all sit in a circle, teacher and students, and there is a lot of group singing and sometimes even dancing....