15 minutes of play per week on the Yeti
Confetti Kids app is proven to enhance English Literacy and
Mathematical Reasoning skills
MENLO PARK, Calif.,
July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ --
Lirvana Labs, creator of the Yeti Confetti Kids app which
provides an AI-powered personalized learning companion for
preschool to elementary grade children, is shown to significantly
enhance children's English and Math skills, with just 15 minutes of
play per week, leading to an increase of half a grade level in 10
weeks according to data from its cohort of learners.
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The company and its flagship app are experiencing impressive
growth this year and are simultaneously announcing several new
features and partnerships this summer. From January to May 2024, Yeti Confetti Kids had 15,000 new user
downloads, excluding those within its pilot schools in the US, the
Middle East, and Asia. 90% of Yeti Confetti Kids users are from
the US, with the US and UK making up 95% of all users in the last
90 days. Since the pandemic, the National Assessment of Educational
Progress estimates that more than two-thirds (68%) of US fourth
graders are not proficient in reading. For students learning in
English and Math using the Yeti Confetti Kids app, comprehension
levels advanced from .41 below grade level to .16 above in just 10
weeks.
In an efficacy study at the Daniel International School in
Thailand, Yeti Confetti Kids
accelerated English proficiency among students from rural
backgrounds with minimal English skills. These students exceeded
the typical annual growth rate by 70%, with WIDA scores showing an
average increase of 1.28 levels within 9 months.
"We built Lirvana Labs to solve a key accessibility gap in the
AI in education conversation, and our growth as well as impact data
are testament to the purposeful use of AI to address it," said
Christie Pang, co-founder and co-CEO
of Lirvana Labs. "Yeti Confetti Kids is empowering educators,
parents and students with the tools they need to gain deeper
insights into each learner's unique interests, abilities, and
mastery of concepts. As we continue to grow, we're committed to
unlocking the full potential of AI in education and making a
lasting impact on the lives of learners everywhere."
Yeti Confetti Kids' learning modules create engaging and
adaptive learning experiences, providing a supportive,
guidance-based framework spanning over 200 English Literacy,
Mathematical Reasoning, and Social-Emotional Skills informed by
research-backed national and global standards, CASEL, and Bloom's
Taxonomy of Learning frameworks. The platform showcases real-world
application of math concepts through story-based activities and
dynamic imagery to explain number patterns, teaching children
strategies and shortcuts for arithmetic, measurement, and data
comprehension. Yeti Confetti Kids provides personalized starting
levels and helps users work with the alphabet, punctuation,
foundations of writing, and decoding sentences, making it a
comprehensive tool for language and math learning.
This summer, Lirvana Labs is expanding further with several
partnerships to reach new learners and new feature rollouts
including:
- A multi-year research study with Stanford Senior Research Scholar and Director of
Stanford's Deliberative Democracy Lab,
Dr. Alice Siu: Dr. Siu will lead a
multi-year research study to assess the efficacy of Yeti Confetti
Kid's AI-powered modules in English Literacy, Math Reasoning and
Critical Thinking for first to third graders. The study will employ
both anecdotal and controlled experimental methods across selected
school districts on the West and East coasts.
- LLM-powered Critical Thinking Simulator: Lirvana Labs is
launching the first-ever LLM-powered critical thinking simulator
for children between six and nine years old in select pilot partner
schools and NGOs. This initiative aims to augment Yeti Confetti
Kids' already-popular Social Emotional Learning short videos and
enhance learners' critical thinking ability, a crucial competency
in the age of social media and generative AI content. The
simulator, part of Yeti Confetti Kids, uses story-immersion and
interactive decision-making with virtual characters to promote
quality information processing and comprehensive
communication.
Co-developed with Dr. Alice Siu and
Character Education Foundation Founding Chairman Christine Ma-Lau, the program aligns with core
Social Emotional Learning (SEL) pillars, including emotional
awareness and responsible decision-making. Based on extensive
research, including the Human Deliberative Quality index, the
project will undergo patent filings after pilot tests in the second
half of 2024.
- Multilingual Learning Companion, powered by AI voice and
translation: Yeti Confetti Kids is releasing a multilingual
learning companion that can speak in a combination of English and
five other languages: Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, French, and
German. This feature enables Yeti, the learning companion, to
explain topics and introduce videos bilingually.
- Custom Spelling Games: Yeti Confetti Kids is introducing custom
spelling games of simple phonic words with dynamic adaptations to
each child's specific awareness levels. The games take into account
not only the child's ability to find the right letters that make up
the word, but tailors a spelling list based on each child's unique
vowel, consonant, and syllabication practice.
In April 2024, Lirvana Labs
announced $5.3M in early-stage
funding to expand Yeti Confetti Kids' capabilities. Lirvana Labs is
currently preparing to pilot Yeti Confetti Kids in schools,
districts, child development centers, and early care and education
programs worldwide, aiming to revolutionize personalized learning
and instruction.
The Yeti Confetti Kids app is currently available for download
on the Google Play Store and Apple App
Store. To learn more about Lirvana Labs and Yeti Confetti
Kids, please visit yeticonfettikids.com. The team is actively
seeking partnerships with diverse and representative school
districts, research institutions, and leading learning science
pioneers, and would welcome any inquiries at
support@lirvanalabs.com.
About Lirvana Labs
Founded in 2022, Yeti Confetti™
Kids, Lirvana Labs' flagship product, provides AI-directed
personalized instruction through an LLM-powered learning companion
for Preschool to Lower Elementary grade children. To date, the Yeti
Confetti Kids App has delivered over 350,000 minutes of AI-piloted
lessons to 22,000 children worldwide, with a tailored curriculum
covering English, Math, Social Emotional, and Critical Thinking.
Lirvana Labs has partnered with needs-based schools in Thailand to bridge ESL gaps and aided Syrian
refugee children in Lebanon
through Jusoor, an NGO well known for its success in remote
learning experiments with the World Bank EdTech Hub. Lirvana's
bespoke data visualization platform helps schools, teachers, and
parents track learner engagement and success, in living rooms,
renowned international schools, to make-shift classrooms in refugee
camps.
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