Type of site App, website Website socratic.org | Slogan(s) Make learning easier Users 11 million (estimated) | |
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Created by Chris Pedregal, Shreyans Bhansali Alexa rank 26,794 worldwide, 4,702 in the U.S. | ||
Socratic, or Socratic.org, is an education tech company that offers a mobile app for students. The app uses AI technology to help students with their homework by providing educational resources like videos, definitions, Q&A, and more. Socratic’s stated mission is to Make Learning Easier.
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Socratic was first launched as a web product in 2013 by Chris Pedregal and Shreyans Bhansali, in New York City, United States. They launched their app under the same name in 2016.
Technology
The Socratic app utilizes AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology to accurately predict which concepts will help a student solve their question. Over months, millions of real student questions were analyzed and classified. Then the app uses that data to guess on future questions and provide specific education content.
The app works by letting students take a photo of a homework question. Using OCR (Optical Character Recognition), the app is able to read their photo and classify it using the technology described above. Students receive various “cards” in the app with different learning resources such as definitions, Youtube videos, Q&A, and original content and illustrations written by the Socratic.org web community.
In January 2017, Socratic added additional math features to the app, including step-by-step equation help and graphs.
Subjects
There are in total 4 main groups of subjects on Socratic.org which have sub-branches included: