Beyond Words - Literacy Podcast

Literacy Mission with Shaq O'Neal: An Inside Look into Edsoma - The Revolutionary Literacy App.


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Kyle Wallgren

Chief Executive Officer

Edsoma.

Globally renowned NBA basketball star

Shaq O Neill is just one of the many literacy advocates supporting this innnovative literacy platform now in 11 countries.

He’s On a literacy mission and is an investor in Edsoma a powerful literacy APP

The world has experienced a shift since the pandemic broke out. Now, self-education has taken a stronger stand than ever, with remote learning and parents actively being school teachers’ assistants. This has, however, enabled poor quality learning and reading. To fix the situation, Kyle Wallgren got the idea to build a new communication and reading application called Edsoma.

Edsoma was designed to get children back in the reading culture and help them bond better with the authority figures in their lives.

The app has been on the trajectory to become every family’s favorite reading application with its numerous features and functionalities that encourage bonding while learning. One remarkable thing about Edsoma is that parents and guardians do not need to be physically present with their children to read with them. Instead, they can do the reading from any part of the world and still achieve the same.

The app’s creator and CEO, Kyle Wallgren, got the inspiration to build the app due to his marital status as a divorced parent.

“I wanted to continue reading with my children even when I’m not with them. So, I created this app for not just myself but other parents in a similar situation”.

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Beyond Words - Literacy PodcastBy World Literacy Foundation and World Literacy Summit