Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Once known for a learning game, the Redwood City, Calif.-based based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. The company has refocused its business and research around what it calls its “Adaptive Learning Platform.” Back in the U.S.,

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Adaptive Learning Knewton Pearson Company 66

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Can a robot be whimsical? Earlier this fall, Corey Mohn , President and Executive Director of CAPS Network , had recommended to our Deeper Learning Team a book that was just published in 2021 Running with Robots: The American High School's Third Century by Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy. This will be kludgy and awful , I thought.

Education 101

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Yesterday, the New York-based company announced that Ryan Prichard, who has been with the company since July 2012, most recently as Chief Technology Officer, will assume the CEO position. He claims to be among the first to coin this approach as “adaptive learning.” What’s all the buzz about adaptive learning really about?

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

For this report, the researchers asked millions of high school students in dozens of countries about their access to computers both in the classroom and at home, and compared their answers to scores on the 2012 PISA. NPR Ed has covered adaptive learning before. ” That’s right.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

.” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Marketing Claims From Adaptive Learning Vendors As Barrier To Adoption.” ” That’s according to the latest data released by the National Center for Education Statistics, which covers up to the year 2012. Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. Google’s Alphabet Inc.

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