How Adaptive Learning Can Help Students Think About Meaning
The following experience is common to most teachers: a meticulously planned class activity succeeds in capturing student interest for a few minutes, but attention evaporates quickly and afterward no one can remember the point of the lesson. Despite the flashy visualizations, the expensive 3-D models, the age-appropriate allusions (references to …
5 Myths about Mastery-Based Learning
Whether or not you’ve heard the term “mastery-based learning,” you’ve probably encountered it in practice, in school or on the job. In any situation where you’re given a set of labs, problems, or activities where your progression is dependent on successful completion of various tasks rather than seat time, you’re …
5 Ways to Make Students Smarter
A version of this article originally appeared on Getting Smart (http://www.gettingsmart.com). Self-perception, social expectations, and previous experiences shape our academic ability more than we realize. Just think: how many times does your belief that you are gifted at something combine with positive external validation to help you overcome challenges in …
Why Students Don’t Like School, and What Adaptive Learning Can Do About It (Part 4)
Miss Part 1, 2 or 3 of the series? Check it out here. I recently read Daniel T. Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom. As I was reading Willingham’s investigation, I noticed that …
Why Students Don’t Like School, and What Adaptive Learning Can Do About It (Part 3)
Miss Part I or Part II of the series? Check it out here. I recently read Daniel T. Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom. As I was reading Willingham’s investigation, I noticed that …
Why Students Don’t Like School, and What Adaptive Learning Can Do About It (Part 2)
Miss Part I of the series? Check it out here. I recently read Daniel T. Willingham’s Why Don’t Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom. As I was reading Willingham’s investigation, I noticed that most of the …
Adaptive Learning Roundtable, Part 6: Integrating Technology into Schools [VIDEO]
In our sixth and final installment of our Adaptive Learning Roundtable discussion, Len Swanson, the former Executive Director of ETS and the designer of Knewton’s testing algorithm, shares some insight into integrating technology into schools. Did you miss the other videos? Check them out here.
Why Students Don’t Like School — and What Adaptive Learning Can Do About It (Part 1)
Ask students why they don’t like school, and you’ll get several answers: it’s “hard,” “boring,” “disconnected from reality” or “only for smart people.” The real answer is of course more complex than any of these responses would suggest. To get a deeper understanding of the matter, I recently read one …
Adaptive Learning Roundtable, Part 5: Understanding How Students Learn Over Time [VIDEO]
Recently, David Kuntz (our VP of Research), Jose Ferreira (our Founder and CEO), and Len Swanson (the former Executive Director of ETS and the man behind Knewton’s testing algorithm), sat down for an in-depth talk on all things adaptive learning. In the fifth video installment of the discussion, David, Jose, …
Adaptive Learning Roundtable, Part 4: Making K-12 Statewide Tests Adaptive [VIDEO]
In the fourth video installment of our Adaptive Learning Roundtable, David Kuntz (VP of Research at Knewton), and Len Swanson (former ETS Executive Director and the designer of Knewton’s testing algorithm) talk about how adaptive testing can improve K-12 statewide testing. Furthermore, as David points out, when adaptive tests are …
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