Parlova lets your students talk directly with Julius Caesar, Socrates, Freud or Zeus — from within their own time, with their own logic. This guide explains how to bring this approach into your lessons, from age 11 to 18.
Cognitive science is clear on this: passive memorisation (listening, reading, copying) is far less effective than active learning. Students who build their own knowledge — asking questions, forming hypotheses, testing them against answers — remember much better and understand more deeply.
That's the principle behind the Socratic method, problem-based learning and many modern teaching approaches. Parlova puts them into practice in a simple, scalable way: each student talks at their own pace, asks their own questions and builds their own understanding.
The time constraint is also a powerful teaching tool: Napoleon doesn't know about Waterloo yet, Freud knows nothing of modern neuroscience. This forces students to understand events from their internal logic — not from their consequences. That's exactly what essays and source analysis ask for.
Parlova fits different moments and ways of teaching.
Missions built from official curricula — French, English and others, depending on the school system you choose.
* In France, the national framework for AI in education requires whole-class use for ages 11–13: the teacher leads the dialogue, projected on the board, and students use the AI themselves from age 13–14. We recommend the same approach everywhere.
A distinctive feature for developing historical critical thinking
A short sheet to frame your first session with a historical figure — the topic, the rule that the character stays in their own time, the debrief.
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