Qira & Company Launches Youth Education Service 'KBR,' Where Students Read My Articles and Write Their Thoughts in English
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Edutech fintech startup Qira & Company has launched Katsby Business Review (KBR), a financial and economic education service for teenagers.
KBR consists of reading English-language economics articles, solving corporate problems, and writing English essays, while an AI engine analyzes the essays in real time.
It is operated by combining an offline magazine with the online learning platform KBR Learning Studio, and researchers from several universities, financial education experts, and AI researchers took part in developing the curriculum and AI engine.
Edutech fintech startup Qira & Company has launched a financial and economic education service for teenagers. The service is called Katsby Business Review (hereinafter KBR), and Qira & Company is led by CEO Park Hyeok. The company said the new service combines English learning with finance and economics education for teenagers under the KBR brand.
KBR's learning method for teenagers is reading global economic news in English. It then applies a learning model that has students consider real corporate problems and write English essays on solutions. Through this approach, the use of English moves beyond being centered on the subject of study, and its purpose becomes a tool for understanding real economic and business issues and for expressing one's own thoughts.
The background for this structure is that in economics and finance education, understanding concepts, applying them to real cases, analyzing information, and explaining one's own judgment are presented as important elements. English education is also changing beyond reading comprehension and vocabulary-focused learning, and the direction for expanding English education is presented as logically expressing opinions on specific topics.
KBR is a service that presents "a world read in English, thoughts made by yourself" as its educational value. The service is designed to reinterpret global financial and economic issues at a level suited to teenagers. Moving away from traditional English reading comprehension drills and memorizing economic concepts, it is designed to help users understand economic phenomena through real business cases and logically express their own judgments.
Learning materials are based on English-language economics articles, and the content is organized by level. Learners encounter various cases from global markets and companies, and participate in activities centered on business dilemmas that real companies may face. They then draw their own conclusions and write English essays containing supporting evidence and logic.
Through this process, KBR aims to strengthen English literacy and English writing skills as its educational direction. It also seeks to improve information interpretation skills and evidence-based judgment. In addition, it aims to foster the review of different perspectives and critical thinking.
The service analyzes essays written by learners in real time using a self-developed AI engine. According to the company, AI feedback is provided based on 5 indicators, including logical structure, the appropriateness of evidence, and response to counterarguments. Through this, learners can identify areas where their writing and thinking process need improvement through AI feedback. AI-based feedback supports immediate review of the completed work and repeated revisions.
KBR combines this AI-based feedback with the learning process of reading, evaluating, and writing about economic issues in English. KBR operates in a form that combines an offline magazine and the online learning platform KBR Learning Studio. As a result, offline content-based reading and exploration, and online writing and AI feedback, are connected into a single learning process.
The curriculum was developed with the participation of researchers from London Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, KAIST, and Seoul National University. Researchers from London Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, KAIST, and Seoul National University also took part in developing the AI engine. Financial education experts and AI research personnel also joined the development of the curriculum and AI engine.
The company said it is focusing on linking economic and financial content with AI-based learning functions.
Qira & Company has secured investment from Infobank's "Startup Korea IB Super Gap Fund" and VNTG. Investors in the fund include Viva Republica, the operator of Toss, among others. Qira & Company has previously been selected for Kyobo Life Insurance Open Innovation, Smilegate OrangePlanet, and KAIST Open Venture Lab.
CEO Park Hyeok presented the critical analysis of complex information and the ability to make rational judgments as key competencies in the AI era. He added that KBR is helping students gain a proactive understanding of global business trends. He also said the company plans to continue upgrading its educational content and AI feedback environment so that students can create their own logical answers.
Detailed information about the KBR curriculum, as well as workshops for schools and institutions and individual subscriptions, can be found on the official Katsby website.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Gyeong-ju
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407682
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