Lekcher Smart Classes

One of humanity’s most fundamental rights, the right to an education, is also often one of the first to suffer in zones of concentrated poverty, disaster, and war.  Developing countries, especially in Africa and South America, are struggling to give good quality education for their children living in areas of high socio-economic deprivation. A common problem is usually the absence of adequate infrastructure, like connected computers, Internet access, or electricity during the day.

Our goal is to break this status quo by providing a 100% smartphone solution that empowers teachers and students to overcome infrastructure deficits by allowing digital lectures to take place in poorly equipped learning environments. Lekcher is a highly scalable solution with the potential of benefiting millions of young children and adults getting a better education, a path to raise employment levels and diminish segregation worldwide.

Inhabitants of high-poverty zones, immigration districts, and settlements areas form a homogeneous group of generally low skilled marginalized people with practically no access to the latest educational resources. By educational resources, we mean a set of minimal technologies for educators that will help improving student’s learning process during lectures, such as connected computers or mobile devices, digital whiteboards, books, etc. According to ITU data, 2019 more than 48% of the world´s population does not have access to the internet. If we facilitate access to digital content in those areas and provide local businesses with ways to digitally acknowledge students' achievements, we can greatly contribute to increment skill levels and diminish unemployment. 

Lekcher is an AI-powered Peer-to-Peer application devoted to overcoming the lack of learning infrastructure faced by teachers in the process of giving lectures, apply exams, and log student's performance. By running entirely on mobile devices and ad-hoc peer-to-peer networks, it creates smart classroom environments by connecting nearby devices via Bluetooth and WiFi-direct technology. Lekcher does not demand internet access, or even electricity to work, just regular smartphones. Mobile screens become a real-time slide-based presentation tool, also working as a shared whiteboard. Lecture contents can be previously loaded in the presenter device and propagated to student's ones during the class.

Lekcher brings to classroom features like:

1. An interactive way to present digital content in the form of slides and cards
2. Assessment of students via tests/quizzes with data collection 
3. Interactive 3D objects/AR
4. Ability to make real-time AI-powered translation of the slides and quizzes
5. AI-Powered ability to speak screens helping visually impaired students
6. All data is collected by the presenter device and transmitted when an Internet connection is available
7. Finally, it is ubiquitous, works anywhere.

Lekcher empowers job candidates with ways of sharing with employers the knowledge and achievements they have acquired during classes and skill training sessions.

Education has a substantial impact on employment prospects. Lekcher targets the population living in zones of concentrated poverty, disaster, or war, usually receiving low government investments for quality education. Developing countries, especially in Africa and South America, are failing to give good education infrastructure for people living in areas of socio-economic deprivation. Brazil, a country undergoing increasing social inequality issues, is continuously receiving Venezuelans fleeing from poverty and seeking better living conditions. European countries like Italy are facing immigration waves of sub-Saharan African and Bangladeshi migrants and Syrian refugees escaping from a civil war. These immigrants constitute clusters of people around big cities in search of opportunities and social integration. Besides, the adult population of immigration areas must handle enormous linguist and cultural differences.  

In common, these people are suffering from low-education and the absence of required skills to get inserted into the local job market. With Lekcher, we can help address the lack of learning infrastructure, cultural, and linguistics differences with the use of AI and mobile technology. By improving the learning infrastructure, we will improve people's education and skills, increase employment, and finally help those populations get a better and prosperous life.

Lekcher aims to foster education and employment through technology. According to the World Bank, there is strong evidence that high-quality infrastructure facilitates better instruction, improves student outcomes, and reduces dropout rates, among other benefits. Policymakers of many countries are failing to properly invest in their education infrastructure, especially for people living in high-poverty zones, immigration districts, and settlements, resulting in a negative impact on their future. Lekcher is a tool that addresses the problem of unequipped schools by allowing smart class environments to be created solely with simple, disconnected from the Internet, smartphones. 

Lekcher is a complete solution for smart classes. Key features are:

• More attractive and dynamic learning - Retention

• Replaces physical infrastructure like whiteboards and slide projectors

• Knowledge Management

• All educational levels: child, youth and adult

• Works anywhere: rural areas, remote locations, large cities, businesses, etc

• Class material can be re-watched and shared by students to other students

• More inclusive - Real time translations and Text-to-Speech using ML for  foreign and visually impaired attendees