Illustration by Ying Xu

Young children learn best from everyday social interaction. And young children love to communicate with “conversational agents” (CAs) such as Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant. The Converse to Learn project puts these two together by creating CA-based books and videos to promote children’s dialogic learning. For example, watch the one-minute video below to see how Elinor the bunny (CA) engages a young child viewer in dialogue to help her and her friends solve their science-based problem.
The Converse to Learn project is led
​by the Digital Learning Lab in the School of Education at the
​University of California at Irvine.

PARTNERS

  • PBS KIDS
  • Sesame Workshop
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana
  • Santa Ana Early Learning Initiative
  • Delhi Center

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FUNDING

  • National Science Foundation Grant #2115382 (proposal) and #1906321 (proposal)
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting Ready to Learn Grant
  • Schmidt Futures
  • University of California, Irvine
  • University of California Office of the President​