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February 25, 2013
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Life-like avatars serve as cognitive tutors in a game to help students comprehend science texts.
The use of empathic and life-like avatars as cognitive tutors developed in the U.S. is central to a project that uses an online game developed in Finland to help elementary and middle-school students with fluent reading and deep comprehension of science texts.
Credit: Boulder Learning Technologies
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