Google Knewton Robotics Software 
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2017
9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8 edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. edtech startups.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” This is what Google does, for example, when you type something like “how many points LBJ” into the search bar, and you get results about LeBron James.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?
Hack Education
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Even if these publications fade away , the breathless stories about the possibilities of brainwave-reading mindfulness headbands and " mind-reading robot tutors in the sky " continue to be told. Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Google got into the anti-plagiarism business.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
The non-speakers: James Damore, the fired Google engineer, and Lucian Wintrich, a journalist with Gateway Pundit. From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The literacy software company has raised $14.8 support, EFF resigns.”
Hack Education
JANUARY 26, 2018
Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.” ” Edsurge on the Google press release : “Google’s Education Suite is Still Free, but New Add-Ons For Administrators Come With a Fee.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The firm: KPMG.
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