Balancing work and a full-time MBA program
Amy McDowell is the VP, Web Marketing at Knewton and an MBA student at Columbia. She loves thinking of ways to spread the word about Knewton’s GMAT course and LSAT course. – As a current full-time student in Columbia Business School’s executive MBA program and a full-time online marketing maverick …
Start-up talk: Encountour
It’s great to learn about new companies that cut against the grain, so we were excited when Joanna (a stellar Knewton TA) told us about Encountour. Josh Egan is the co-founder; last week we tracked him down to answer a few questions. – What’s the goal of Encountour? What kind …
Google's got the goods on China
Starting this week, Jose is a featured blogger on The Huffington Post. Here’s his first piece on the Google-China showdown. – Google is playing hardball. After last week’s ultimatum, the search giant appears to have left itself no way out: either China allows Google to operate uncensored or Google leaves …
Patent law: a call for an Independent Invention Defense
At Knewton, we prepare future lawyers and business leaders through our LSAT prep and GMAT prep courses; here’s hoping a few of them will be able to come to the defense of small businesses and sane patent law in the future. Yesterday, Brad Burnham — a partner at Union Square …
An ed tech challenge: Teachers can put homework online, but will they?
Jay Mathews has a piece in The Washington Post this week that highlights a common challenge in ed tech. Many schools now partner with sites where students’ assignments can be easily followed online. This is great for kids who routinely forget to write down assignments, and it’s great for parents …
Uruguay plan gives laptops, wireless to students in nation's public schools
World Bank’s Edublog has a post up about an incredibly ambitious educational technology program in Uruguay. Under Plan Ceibal, all students in Uruguayan primary schools (and soon high school students, as well) receive free laptops as part of their public school education. Even better, the schools take steps to ensure …
Adaptive learning and traffic lights
The adaptive learning engine that we’re building at Knewton is part of a larger trend of adaptive approaches to some of the world’s biggest problems. Rather than rely on rules that are etched in stone — rules that frequently have no bearing on the situation at hand — an adaptive …
MacArthur Foundation offers $2 million prize in digital learning competition
The MacArthur Foundation (of Genius Grant renown) and HASTAC are funding a really interesting competition that’s set to launch on December 14th. It’s called Reimagining Learning, and it’s aimed at spurring innovative ideas in participatory education. The contest has two categories, both open to the public. The 21st Century Learning …
Karen Cator
Alex Sarlin is Lead Verbal Developer for Graduate Programs at Knewton, specializing in GMAT prep. Karen Cator, the former Director of Education and Leadership at Apple, was just appointed as the US Department of Education’s new head of the Office of Educational Technology. Combined with the fact that $650MM that …
Video games and failure-based learning
Ethan Hein is a content editor and social media guru at Knewton. I used to teach afterschool in City of New York/Parks & Recreation’s Computer Resource Center program. Kids in the program spent a lot of time playing educational games like Logical Journey Of The Zoombinis and The Incredible Machine. …
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