My name is Artie Duncanson, and I wanted to create something that could help prevent future generations of young minds from being atrophied by the school system. After 2 years of non-stop working to fund and develop, spending just shy of $70,000 of my own money, my team and I have developed a language learning computer program that will provide real educational value outside of the drudgery of schooling.
The reason that I’m posting is because I’m looking for advice or ideas on how to get our free software into the hands of students who are still mired in the school system.
While I could easily contact language learning teachers and sell them on the idea that our program would be a great tool for them to use in their classrooms, I refuse to go that route. I do not want to provide the schools a tool that could see them improve; I want to see schools eradicated.
Our software is a radical departure from anything else out there, and we already have numerous companies who’ve seen a demonstration of our software and have committed to using it at their various organizations (mostly ESL programs). I now want to get it into the hands of school students, with the hope that they will love it, learn a new language exponentially quicker than they would at school, and begin having the validity of schooling chipped away in their minds.
Point of Clarification: I am not actively trying to keep my program out of the schools, I am just not going to actively participate in getting them integrated myself (so if a student likes the program and decides that he/she wants to show the teacher and use it in class, I will have to accept that as the student’s choice… nothing I can do about that). At this stage my program is little known, so I am hoping the Liberty.me community might have some ideas on how I can let language students become aware that my program exists without having to convince teachers to show it to them in class. Thank you all.
