Hack Education
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Why, for example, would Microsoft famously put out a study in 2015 saying that humans’ attention spans are shorter than goldfish’s? He was Facebook’s first big investor. He’s an investor in the learn-to-code company Treehouse and an investor in Knewton. And why on earth would we believe that?!).
Hack Education
DECEMBER 18, 2016
Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. But in this case, they must also sign away their right to sue Facebook or Summit Public Schools in case of a problem (like, say, a data breach).
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 1, 2017
” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” ” Knewton has raised some $157 million in venture capital. ( No disclosure that Edsurge shares investors – GSV Capital – with Knewton.). I don’t know. ” That’s horrific.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 14, 2016
According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Neither Knewton nor the Clinton campaign have confirmed the veracity of this leaked speech. Education Politics. ” Meanwhile on Campus. Small world).
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
Personalized learning looks different in every classroom, but common features include letting students set their own goals, study the curriculum online at their own pace, or decide when to take tests. The goal of this movement is to give students more control over their education and customize lessons based on their needs. Teira Rucker, 11.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued. And on and on and on.
MindShift
JANUARY 25, 2017
Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it. Some schools say they have trouble figuring out what to buy.
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