EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

AI is creating dramatic transformations in the workplace, as computers replace human labor, but AI in education has been largely limited to tutoring software that aims to make curriculum materials more individualized for students. One example is Knewton , an AI-powered platform that tailors personalized lesson plans to students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Students engaged with an Acuitus training program that combines computer-based learning with human mentors to compress 10 years of experience and learning into 5 months. Another dashed hope was the digital tutor made by a New-York-based company called Knewton, which one education consultant rated as “snake oil” in an NPR story in 2015.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Department of Education has increasingly encouraged and funded states to collect and analyze information about students: grades, state test scores, attendance, behavior, lateness, graduation rates and school climate measures like surveys of student engagement. Software also collects information on students all by itself.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” This product is a piece of s**t,” one doctor said. Socorro Dove.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Knewton (adaptive teaching software). Uversity (student engagement platform, formerly Inigral, acquired by TargetX). Thiel and his VC firm Founder’s Fund’s Education Technology Investments (since 2010). Declara (adaptive teaching software). Thinkful (coding bootcamp).

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