{"id":52063,"date":"2017-04-17T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T17:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/learn-a-language-while-you-wait-for-wifi"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:04:21","slug":"learn-a-language-while-you-wait-for-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/learn-a-language-while-you-wait-for-wifi","title":{"rendered":"Learn a language while you wait for WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1oIaVv1MDG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hyper-connectivity has changed the way we communicate, wait, and productively use our time. Even in a world of 5G wireless and \u201cinstant\u201d messaging, there are countless moments throughout the day when we\u2019re waiting for messages, texts, and Snapchats to refresh. But our frustrations with waiting a few extra seconds for our emails to push through doesn\u2019t mean we have to simply stand by.<\/p>\n<p>To help us make the most of these \u201cmicro-moments,\u201d researchers from MIT\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/csail.mit.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory<\/a> (CSAIL) have developed a series of apps called \u201cWaitSuite\u201d that test you on vocabulary words during idle moments, like when you\u2019re waiting for an instant message or for your phone to connect to WiFi.<\/p>\n<p>Building on micro-learning apps like Duolingo, WaitSuite aims to leverage moments when a person wouldn\u2019t otherwise be doing anything \u2014 a practice that its developers call \u201cwait-learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2017\/learn-language-while-you-wait-for-wifi-0417\">https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2017\/learn-language-while-you-wait-for-wifi-0417<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyper-connectivity has changed the way we communicate, wait, and productively use our time. Even in a world of 5G wireless and \u201cinstant\u201d messaging, there are countless moments throughout the day when we\u2019re waiting for messages, texts, and Snapchats to refresh. But our frustrations with waiting a few extra seconds for our emails to push through [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58046,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52063\/revisions\/58046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}