Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed. student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Recent dealmaking news includes acquisitions by Apple and Excelligence Learning, and partnership between Pearson and Knewton. acquired the San Francisco-based startup that helps K-12 educators “use data to analyze the past, understand the present, and anticipate the future,” according to the company’s Twitter page.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

and aims to address some of the obstacles to broadband adoption -- in terms of cost, access, relevance, and digital literacy. Google has worked to address many of the accessibility issues, and The Chronicle of HIgher Education reports that the issue was resolved "without any admission of wrongdoing."

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.).

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” ” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

.” Some 20 Facebook engineers work on the software, and according to The Washington Post , the student information it tracks and stores is not housed on Facebook servers, although Facebook does have access to the data. Nevertheless, Knewton claims Knewton’s personalized learning products work.

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