EdTechTeacher
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
With AR, one can overlay images, videos, and sounds onto an existing environment to “augment” a real-world scenario. For instance, images, videos, and sounds of a World War II battle could be superimposed on a textbook page describing a World Word II. Another underlying metaverse technology is Augmented Reality (AR).
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
It was the first episode of our new series of video town halls called EdSurge Live. Ones used directly for academics (like Knewton) or ones that are non-academic? With Knewton, that is this notion of personalized and adaptive instruction. The hour-long discussion was so rich, we’re releasing it in two installments.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Computers and YouTube videos haven’t replaced teachers. 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.” Khan Academy was going to change everything. MOOCs were going to change everything. And on and on and on.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
Seven kids practiced reading on Lexia, while three kids with special needs, who were not yet ready for Lexia, watched YouTube videos about letter sounds. At one point, five kids in the class were on YouTube, watching videos that were definitely not part of the curriculum. The rest of the students were focused intently on their laptops.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
Wonder Workshop (robotics) – $41 million. Kaltura (video) – $166.1 Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25 Robotics , with ~ $99 million in funding. Absorb (learning management system) – $59 million. Changingedu (tutoring) – $55 million. Coding bootcamps , with ~ $107.6
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.
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