Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2024
In 2015, he famously criticized promises about what was then the latest in AI for education — a tool from a company called Knewton. The CEO of Knewton, Jose Ferreira, said his product would be “like a robot tutor in the sky that can semi-read your mind and figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are, down to the percentile.”
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 Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. Founded in 2011, Smart Sparrow had raised about $23.5
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Ones used directly for academics (like Knewton) or ones that are non-academic? With Knewton, that is this notion of personalized and adaptive instruction. And so what Knewton does—and what any personalized and adaptive technology does—is, you design tasks for students to do in the interface.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 17, 2011
Lesson plans can be shared via LearnBoost, but also via Twitter or Facebook and can be embedded on websites and/or blogs. Research and Data Rey Junco continues to publish interesting research on how Facebook is impacting students'' academic performance. The average time students spent on Facebook was 106 minutes per day.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
Students at ReNEW Schaumburg charter school in New Orleans write down their goals for Summit, a personalized learning platform designed with the help of Facebook engineers. Summit was created by a West Coast charter network, with the help of engineers from Facebook and funding from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
Nor has it stopped Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg from making “personalized learning” a centerpiece of his venture philanthropy firm’s education work or from vowing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on it. Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25 Whatever “it” is.
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