Oral Reading Fluency Improvement Program honored as one of EdTech’s best and brightest innovators and trendsetters in the Language Learning category.
Reading Buddy by Lumos Learning, an oral reading fluency improvement program, is honored as a finalist by The EdTech Awards 2022 for “Cool Tool” in the Language Learning Solution category. Designed by expert educators, Reading Buddy makes learning phonics, reading fluency, and reading comprehension skills easy and fun.
The EdTech Awards recognize people for outstanding contributions to transforming education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere. Celebrating its 12th year, the US-based EdTech Awards program is the world’s largest recognition program for education technology, recognizing the biggest names in edtech.
“As events unfold on the world stage that seems to inch ever closer to a precipice unknown, we are reminded that the leaders and innovators of education technology, like Lumos Learning, have always worked on the edge,” said Victor Rivero, who, as Editor-in-Chief of EdTech Digest, oversees the program.
As a finalist, Reading Buddy and the other finalists and winners were narrowed from the larger field and judged based on various criteria, including pedagogical workability, efficacy, results, support, clarity, value, and potential.
“We’re pleased to see Reading Buddy being recognized for helping educators and parents develop successful readers,” said Mukunda Krishnaswamy, CTO, and Founder of Lumos Learning. “And we’re inspired to work even harder to support educators and parents help their students and children improve their oral reading fluency skills by leveraging engaging Lexile-leveled stories and empathetic artificial intelligence-powered oral reading fluency support.”
Reading Buddy improves childrens’ overall reading ability – accuracy, speed, and expression. It combines proven research-based methodologies such as independent reading, teacher modeling, repeated reading, and vocabulary practice with advances in speech processing and machine learning to provide empathetic oral reading fluency support.
Reading Buddy for Schools
https://www.lumoslearning.com/llwp/schools/oral-reading-fluency-improvement-program-for-elementary-students.htmlReading Buddy for Home Schooling/At-home learning
https://www.lumoslearning.com/llwp/story-based-oral-reading-fluency-program-lumos-reading-buddy.htmlReading Buddy for Libraries
https://www.lumoslearning.com/llwp/libraries/lumos-reading-buddy-oral-reading-fluency-database-program.htmlAbout EdTech Digest and The EdTech Awards
EdTech Digest, a leading source of cool tools, interviews, and trends showcasing the future of learning — annually honors the best and brightest people, products and groups working in edtech with The EdTech Awards. Cool Tool, Leadership, and Trendsetter honorees span the K-12, Higher Ed, and Skills & Workforce sectors.
About Lumos Learning
Lumos Learning started in 2007 as an educational technology solution provider. Today, we empower over 540,000 students, 77,000 teachers, 34,000 schools, and hundreds of public libraries and enterprises throughout the United States.
We offer the leading technology for purpose-built organizations, including schools (K-12), corporates, associations, member-based organizations, and nonprofits.
Educators and parents use our trusted standards-aligned learning programs, including test prep, reading, writing, summer learning, high school & college prep, and more, to help K-12 students drive better outcomes on standardized assessments.
Corporates benefit from our Knowledge Assistant solution, a secure and searchable video library, and Talent Assessment platform to streamline their recruitment, skill development, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Associations and Nonprofits employ our video platform, learning management system, and after-event success platform to grow membership, revenue, and engagement.
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