eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here’s what they had to say: Text-based AI interfaces provide an opportunity to help close the digital divide…and avoid an impending AI divide. In 2024, developing more meaningful school-home relationships and partnering with families to support better student outcomes will be imperative.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.)

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

“Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Edsurge profiles “ personalized learning ” software used in a virtual school that has some 450 incarcerated students. ” Adaptive software is not the same as personalized learning , says eSchool News.

Education 45

Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Other companies with similar models: Spark Schools, which raised $9 million this year from the Omidyar Network and Pearson, and APEC, also funded by Pearson. This includes software, digital content , and websites. I don’t want to overlook two of those descriptors above: English-speaking and able-bodied.

Technology 40

Technology Education Pearson Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40