Socratic, or Socratic.org, is an education tech company that offers a mobile app for students.It is a non-profit organization.The app uses AI technology to help students with their homework by providing educational resources like videos, definitions, Q&A, and more.[2] Socratic’s stated mission is to Make Learning Easier.
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.[3]
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.[4][5]
The app works by letting students take a photo of a homework question.[7] 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.[8]
