I started 2012 with my own kids learning to read
I had trouble coercing two young boys to sit still and practice their reading.
I tried to use technology to help solve my problem, I recruited my mother who lived far away. She would spend time on a video call listening to the kids read out loud. They would read the books sent home by the school as homework, levelled readers where I would take photos and share on the screen during the call with the grandmother.
Back in those days the Student2Student program used to physically post real books to kids, who then read the books together during a telephone call. There was no digital delivery and we were innovative!
But education is not an easy sector to change and its now 2022, The Smith Family still use our platform though it is only recently due to COVID that they have shifted focus to digital delivery of their programs as a priority.
Ali Khorsandian and Ken Taggart are both passionate about kids being able to read well, over the years we have helped 1,000’s of kids to read better through programs like Student2Student from The Smith Family.
Together we have taken the expertise earned over years to develop a platform for schools.
Chatty Kids is a platform focused on schools who want to operate their own reading buddy program. The platform makes it easy for them to create and manage their own internal programs to improve student reading abilities.
“In 2014 The Smith Family were one of our first customers.”
To make things easier I invented Chatty Kidz, a digital video chat platform combining an online library of books and basic content for my mum to use when chatting to the kids. It meant she did not need to taker photos of books, etc to share via her screen.
In 2013 we tried to raise funds through Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ktaggart/chatty-kidz-edutech-for-global-families-with-child
Then we secured a contract for real educational books from Pearson and our first corporate customer The Smith Family.
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