Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” No surprise, that includes companies like Knewton who like to say they’re using AI – data collection, data analysis, and algorithms – to improve teaching and learning.)
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2017
9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8 edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley. tech company has a Chinese analog: for every Amazon there’s an Alibaba; for every Google, a Baidu. “I
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2017
There’s a realization with a number of high-profile implosions or corrections, whether it’s AltSchool or Knewton , that have cooled a lot of folk’s appetite,” says Pianko. Will Google make a strong acquisition in the next year or two to solidify its position,” asks Palmer, “or will it mainly be an infrastructure player?”
Edsurge
JULY 30, 2017
It’s how Google solved the AlphaGo challenge. Can adaptive platforms (such as ALEKS or Knewton) help students learn the facts and enable the teachers to guides? So if you want to pick the next best thing [problem] for a student, you have to use a different approach called reinforcement learning. Are we using it already?
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” In his book, Srnicek identifies five kinds of platforms: advertising platforms (like Google and Facebook), cloud platforms (like Salesforce and Amazon Web Services), industrial platforms (like GE and Siemens), product platforms (like Spotify), and lean platforms (like Uber and AirBnB). Education’s Proto-Platforms.
MindShift
JUNE 7, 2016
Check out the “dashboards” inside programs like Google Apps for Education, or freestanding gradebook apps like JumpRope, or ClassDojo, focused on behavior. Companies like Google pledge not to track the content of schoolwork for the purposes of advertising. Software also collects information on students all by itself.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 17, 2011
Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? Last year, the National Federation of the Blind filed a complaint against Penn State, charging that the school''s adoption of Google Apps for Education was discriminatory. students to address the most pressing national and global challenges."
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