I can imagine a lot of ways how this might work, but the website does not explain much. Maybe it should have a short screencast as an example. Or at least screenshots.<p>I also assume this collects a lot of data on the user? How is that handled?
I get a mostly-empty page[0] on Win 10 with Firefox 76 and cookies blocked from cdnjs.cloudlfare and js.stripe.<p>[0]: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/LHCYCCw.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/LHCYCCw.png</a>
Hey everyone! I'm Shaun Merritt, the Co-Founder and CTO of Toucan (jointoucan.com). Happy to answer any questions that you have about our product, and incredibly grateful for all the great feedback. I'll be jumping into some of the comments too. Excited for you all to give it a try. :)
I installed it to try it out, but it takes over your new tab page which I already have configured, so I just immediately uninstalled it. Maybe I didn't read closely enough and it said it was going to do that, but clearly I missed it and don't want that happening.
When I navigate to that page on my iOS device, all I see is a green upper bar with a hamburger menu. Clicking on the menu offers "log in" and "add toucan"<p>I clicked back.
At first glance it isn't obvious what Toucan is meant to teach. Apparently, it exposes you to contextual information on a given topic.<p>I am not sure that is how you teach "skills" or build declarative knowledge.
I think it's a real interesting idea and could work!<p>I got a little confused when I removed a pack and it stayed, but then I saw remove -> removed.<p>Then I added a pack and went to a website to test and didn't see anything.<p>Soccer Hooliganism -> Wikipedia on soccer, couldn't see anything.<p>Because I was not totally sure what it does I wondered if it only works on language. I assume it's just to learn about Soccer Hooliganism though.<p>(I haven't signed up, have approved access to sites, ublocker running)<p>[edit] Playing more - Difficulty, could go below Easy into the void on the tab
What I gathered from the website is that Toucan can swap in "comida" for "food"; I can pretty well extrapolate the language-learning function from that example. But, um, does it do anything else?