MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. What is personalized learning?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

It’s Time For Personalized Learning In Education. In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system. The power of personalized learning, understood in this way, is intuitive.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2016

Over three years, each institution will receive $515,000 “to adopt, implement and scale use of adaptive courseware in high-enrollment, blended learning courses in multiple departments and programs to improve student success,” according to Meaghan Duff, executive director of APLU’s Personalized Learning Consortium (PLC).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? What is personalized learning?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

CodeNow: Teaching Programming, Narrowing the Digital Divide Pearson and Knewton: Big Data and the Promise of Personalized Learning The Open Course Library & the Quest for the $30 College Textbook' Or Build One?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $175.6 ” Tutoring is the cornerstone of technological fantasies about “personalized learning.” Zuoyebang (tutoring): $585 million. 17zuoye (tutoring): $585 million.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

He’s also an investor in the private school AltSchool, the education data company Clever, the adaptive textbook company Knewton, the coding bootcamp Thinkful, the student loan company SoFi, and many others. He’s an investor in the learn-to-code company Treehouse and an investor in Knewton. And what do they want?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. There were several attempts this year to link the history of “personalized learning” to recent education reforms (but not surprisingly, not to Skinner). ” Edsurge asked in June. Poor Rousseau.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). ” But what did Facebook do?

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

He’s referring to “ personalized learning ,” but might as well be any buzzword when you frame the headline that way, bud.). Via Edsurge : “ Pearson , an Investor in Knewton , Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products.” This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

“Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Edsurge profiles “ personalized learning ” software used in a virtual school that has some 450 incarcerated students. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ OpenStax Launches Learning Platform.”

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning.” The New York Times has more on the drama at the VC firm Xfund , which I’m only including here because Harvard.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Lots of folks in ed-tech seem super excited about Trump too, including Knewton’s Jose Ferreira , Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Harold O. ” The latest from Stanford history professor on Larry Cuban on “ personalized learning ” in Silicon Valley area schools. The Business of Ed-Tech.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

They contend that their schools expand on Montessori’s vision by adding new digital technologies to “personalize learning,” as well as to surveil students. Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade.

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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.

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