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Talmind: bringing authentic Talmud study to Korean classrooms
The Koreans believe that studying the Talmud is the main reason for the success and wisdom of the Jews, pointing to the fact that they account for 25% of Nobel Prize winners, despite making up only 0.2% of the world's population.
Source: The Times of Israel
Overview
Talmind is a tablet app designed to bring authentic Talmud study to elementary, middle, and high school classrooms in Korea.
Main goal
To help Korean students acquire and embrace Jewish intellectual wisdom.
What began as mere curiosity turned out to be surprising
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The Korean population, approximately 50 million people, owns almost every household a "book called the Talmud." The Ministry of Education has even recommended including Talmudic stories in children's studies to develop thinking and intellectual skills.Source
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In most families, the book called the "Korean Gemara" is a 40-page collection of Talmudic stories, based on the work of Rabbi Marvin Tokayer from the 1970s, similar to moral tales of the sages or Stories of the Sages.Source
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There are private educational institutions known as "Chavruta Academies." The academies were founded by Dr. Park Ki-Ryong from KHU University, in collaboration with associations for Jewish leadership and innovative education.Source
What is Talmud?
Starts with a dry and boring part
Rules & quotations
DefinitionsCitationsPrecedentsRulings
And continues to the part that comes to life
Questions & creative reasoning
QuestionsDebateAnalysisCreative solutions
The Problem
Teachers
Knowledge gaps and limited cultural context lead to an approach that overlooks the fundamental principles, and that makes the material hard to teach well.
Students
Cultural norms make students hesitate to ask questions in front of their peers, so they miss the deeper learning that asking would open up.
Parents
Struggle to determine whether their children truly understand the material, develop critical thinking, and actively ask questions.
The Solution
Teachers
A proper connection to authentic Talmudic topics, with a clear two-stage learning path: first embedding the dry fundamentals clearly, then moving to the more interesting and deeper material.
Students
A critical pedagogy that actively encourages asking questions, with ongoing feedback on progress.
Parents
Clear tracking of three parameters measuring their children's skill improvement.
The Challenge
How do I teach students the dry and boring parts?!
The proposed solution:
By bringing it to life through a playful experience and allowing them to be active partners in the learning process.
How can the same game structure work for both Grades 4-6 and Grades 7-12?
The proposed solution:
I trained an AI agent to analyze any Talmudic passage and automatically adapt its content to each grade level, so the game structure itself never has to change.
Sketch
Before a single pixel: the three-step flow, the daily quiz and the drag-and-match game, first worked out by hand.
What is success?
- 7 good questions asked in one lesson
- 4 correct answers found in one lesson
- 1 creative solution reached in one lesson
Before
Inside the project
Four screens, each with a few notes of its own
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The quiz.
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