What
Purpose
Reading Revolutionized.
Leonardo is a learning and reading platform in which the books literally write themselves in real-time based on the reader’s passions, preferences, and performance.
Leonardo uses advanced technologies like AI and multi-modal input to carefully pay attention to the way the child engages with the book: where they look, how they respond verbally, and what they choose to touch on the page.
This observational process reveals deep insights into reading skills. Each interaction is a powerful opportunity for growth, wrapped in a safe environment that respects each family's privacy.
It's not solely about reading: Leonardo nurtures and fosters a lifelong enthusiasm for learning, one remarkable page at a time.
Our Mission
Leonardo makes reading accessible to everyone.
Leonardo fosters confidence and curiosity through individualized content that can recognize and respond to each student's unique needs. Safe, engaging, personalized content makes learning to read - and reading to learn - work dynamically for a wide range of students at their own pace and in their own way.
Leonardo Learning is an entirely new educational approach, leveraging technology and pedagogy to support the needs of all students.
Our goal is to make learning fun and effective, ensuring that every student embarks on an educational journey that paves the way for their future success.
Platform
Educational expertise combined with parental understanding.
Leonardo creates hyper-personalized learning experiences for each student using artificial intelligence and multi-modal signals to analyze each student’s performance through voice, touch, and vision.
In contrast to a traditional, step-by-step learning path, the performance data generate individualized content in real time. This non-linear curriculum provides a unique learning experience that ensures continued progress.
Performance data is combined with our non-linear curriculum and the student's interests to generate individualized content in real-time.
Leonardo understands each student's ability in the moment, down to the word and phoneme. This level of awareness enables a unique learning methodology that is able to connect the dots for students in a way that previous ed tech products and curricula have struggled to achieve.
Leonardo recognizes individual learning styles, needs, and differences and instantly modifies the approach for each student in every session.
Leonardo embodies a teacher's academic knowledge and the parental understanding of the child.
Founder Statement
The way we learn is outdated.
We have been teaching children in the same way since the dawn of the Industrial Age based on the assembly line, where components such as carburetors traveled down a conveyor belt, stopping at each station to garner additional parts.
Likewise, people reasoned, placing children on a metaphorical conveyor belt and stopping at each station based on their age would help us realize the same efficiencies in education.
The problem is that kids are not carburetors.
They are not uniform components that are exactly the same in every facet, all ready at the same time without variation. Conversely, children are unique by design and are highly affected by their environment. Further, some may lag in specific areas while excelling in others. Any system based on this industrial-era approach cannot accommodate the realities of our innate human uniqueness.
In today’s world, we have a much better understanding of how and when children develop. We understand the importance of the years before school begins and how a lack of readiness on their first day can shape the rest of a child’s life.
We know that some children excel in different areas at different times, and we understand that they learn with different styles. But our teaching system is, in many ways, still stuck in an Industrial model that prescribes curriculum (and learning success) based on age and stage, not ability and environment.
Leonardo is unique because, for the first time, we approach learning with a modern understanding of how children learn. Leonardo interacts with each child at their level by utilizing the latest technology and groundbreaking non-linear pedagogy, delivering individualized, just-in-time learning.
Leonardo opens up new possibilities for children to move forward with the greatest efficiencies possible. Leonardo avoids frustrations for children who are not yet ready for more advanced concepts by easing them into important concepts and supporting them in real time. Likewise, Leonardo does not waste time mindlessly drilling concepts the student has already mastered.
Because Leonardo is situationally aware and capable of generating personalized content, it represents an entirely new way to engage, instruct, and ensure mastery.
— Christopher D’Angelo