I haven’t looked into where “dyad” reading is these days. Having the machine read and the reader follow has advantages. That is the whole point of X-Ray reading (though Xray reading is focused on the didactics not dyadics). Reading in a dyad involves more emotional attention because you are reading to someone you are emotionally relating with. That’s the reason it’s potentially so extra-shaming. At least for a while longer, people are emotionally real in ways machines are not. That said the value of the machine is not in replacing the presence of another human in a dyad, it’s how it can pay attention to and support the reader’s live flow in reading in a way that would be hard for even the greatest of reading coaches to do. Every connected device can be a vastly better reading coach than just about any human. In the future machines will be virtually personable and friendly (thus experienced as slightly more emotionally real), but their core value will be their ability to track the flow of the reader’s reading and provide real-time feedback that helps improve how well the reader (their unconscious machinery is) reading (recognition, comprehension, meta reflective learning). That’s where OLSN and OWL are heading. How will they signal the feedback? Vocally and visually – future versions of coded overlays that prompt recognition (PQs).
All that said,
“The inability of this country to get out of the box regarding instructional methods and to look for innovative solutions is as mind-blowing to me as anti-mask/vaxxers and their distorted thinking process.”
Both represent what happens to people who’ve learned to lose faith in their own learning-agency and consequently NEED to replace that agency with BELIEF. Instead of trusting themselves to learn through their challenges, they need to believe in following a higher authority. Everyone does this to various degrees. Higher authorities than learning are necessarily learning disabling re anything that challenges their authority. Racism, Trumpism, Religion Pushers, Instructional Methodology Pushers… all the same in that regard.