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Lasse Leponiemi

Chairman, The HundrED Foundation
first.last@hundred.org

Human-AI Collaborative Writing

Empowering teachers and students through AI-scaffolding and ESG-driven corporate mentorship.

In the era of short-form media, children face a crisis in logical expression. Our platform provides a "Cognitive Scaffold" using AI to generate structural advice and human volunteers for emotional guidance. By training corporate volunteers to empower local teachers, we bridge the digital divide and transform AI into a sustainable tool for literacy and logical thinking in schools.

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Updated April 2026
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Colearn30

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We hope to see a world where every student — regardless of the postcode of their school or the resources of their family — can express a fully formed, logically coherent thought in writing. That might sound modest. It is not. The ability to write well is the ability to think well, to advocate for oneself, to participate in civic and economic life. When we deprive students of deep writing practice, we are not simply failing a literacy benchmark — we are narrowing their futures. Beyond individual students, we want to prove a new model for how corporations, educators, and technology can collaborate without any one actor becoming dependent on the others. AI stays a scaffold, not a crutch. Teachers gain permanent skills, not temporary support. Corporations build genuine community capital, not PR. When this triangle works at scale, education systems become more resilient — and more human.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

We identified three converging crises that traditional education could not solve alone.
First, students were losing the capacity for sustained logical expression. The rise of short-form social media had compressed attention spans, leaving classrooms full of young people who could react but not construct an argument.
Second, a widening AI literacy divide was emerging inside education itself. Frontline teachers in under-resourced schools had no pathway to develop or deliver meaningful AI instruction — not because they lacked will, but because professional development had not caught up with the technology.
Third, corporations with genuine CSR ambitions — like MediaTek — were struggling to create measurable educational impact beyond writing cheques. Their employees had real expertise and motivation to mentor, but no structured channel to reach classrooms effectively. Colearn30 (樂寫) was created to bridge all three gaps simultaneously.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

The platform acts as a "Warm AI Assistant." When a student sits down to write, the AI generates a structured Beginning-Middle-End scaffold based on their chosen topic — enough to remove the blank-page paralysis, but deliberately incomplete so that authentic thought and voice must come from the student.
What makes Colearn30 (樂寫) distinct is the human layer wrapped around the technology. Through our Train-the-Trainer model, corporate volunteers (recruited via partners such as MediaTek's CSR programme) first receive training on the platform and pedagogy. They then deliver that knowledge to classroom teachers, who integrate the skills permanently into the school system. The capacity does not leave with the volunteers — it stays.
Evidence that it works: by a student's 6th submission, average logic scores rise from 6.56 to 7.06 and articles grow by an average of 130 words — a pattern consistent enough across our dataset that we call it the "Magic Number" effect.

How has it been spreading?

Since launch, Colearn30 (樂寫) has reached 127 institutions across 17 regions of Taiwan, generating over 10,000 student writing submissions. Our partnership with MediaTek's CSR initiative has mobilised 392 corporate volunteers, creating a self-reinforcing pipeline: trained volunteers empower teachers, who in turn reach hundreds of students.
In the past year, we deepened the programme's structure: monthly online community sharing sessions now connect participating teachers across regions, and our themed reading initiative (spanning education, ESG, AI, international perspectives, and the arts) gives students a broader intellectual foundation for their writing.
Our goal for the next 2-3 years is to export the Volunteer-to-Teacher-to-Student model across East and Southeast Asia, adapting the AI-assisted literacy framework to Mandarin, Bahasa, and English educational contexts.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

Visit our LINE community or website to register your school or organisation. We offer a free onboarding session for teachers and can connect corporate partners with schools in your region. Contact us at: https://lin.ee/9Y0geqo

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