A Halifax ed-tech company is on a mission to help make children better, more thoughtful writers – by helping them create their own newspapers.
Pressto, founded by former magazine publisher Daniel Stedman, is a web app that lets children write and edit a mock newspaper and receive automated feedback on their work from an AI system.
The app, which left beta testing last week and is now available to the public, is targeted at kids in Grades 3 through 8. It lets them share their creations online or print them off to make a physical newspaper.
“Our North Star is teaching media literacy,” said