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When we talk about the ongoing revolution in education, we tend to focus on students: how their experience is changing, how to personalize learning, how to make the classroom a more engaging and effective place. Sometimes we don’t pay enough attention to another large group (7 million people in the US alone) who think about these issues every day: teachers. Last March, Metlife released the Survey of the American Teacher, which has been published since… Read more

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Clayton Christensen’s “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns” was a Knewton Book Club pick this month. When it comes to the intersection of technology and education reform, Christensen’s “Disrupting Class” is a virtual crystal ball for our educational system trajectory. The theories and prognostications contained in this book represent many of the reasons I decided to work for Knewton. I believe Knewton is standing at the precipice of what will… Read more

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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to check out Internet Week New York (IWNY) Headquarters down in SoHo for the afternoon. Internet Week is an annual festival of events, panels, and demos all about the thriving technology culture here in New York and what’s new in the world of the Internet. It’s not about education — at least not explicitly. But since we at Knewton operate in the intersection of technology, the internet, and education, I… Read more

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Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class was the most recent pick for the Knewton book club. In this groundbreaking book, Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor and expert on innovation, describes a world in which continuous assessment unleashes a range of productive possibilities for education: “When students learn through student-centric online technology, testing doesn’t have to be postponed until the end of an instructional module and then administered in a batch mode. Rather, we can verify mastery… Read more

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Knewton COO David Liu and I recently had the privilege of participating in the inaugural Georgetown h.Innovation Summit. The two-day summit on Georgetown’s hilltop campus kicked off with a Day of Ideas, where Knewton and other startup technology companies like Fog Creek and LivingSocial shared their innovative products and ideas with Georgetown students, teachers, and administrators. Best of all for this Georgetown alumnus — the event was held in Riggs Library of Healy Hall, a… Read more

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Our friends over at Getting Smart just published a great post about one teacher’s experience using Knewton in the classroom. Irene Bloom, a Senior Lecturer at Arizona State University, was originally a skeptic of online learning. But she says that the classroom dynamic has changed since introducing Knewton into her developmental math classes: … Knewton has allowed Bloom to introduce collaborative learning, allowing students to move along at their own pace. “I love looking around… Read more

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OK, really just a month in the life of the #edchat hashtag, but still pretty cool. Learn more about the #edchat hashtag movement in this video.

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Here at Knewton our mission is all about helping more and more students learn better, faster, easier. As such we Knerds love to learn and love to teach. It’s part of our culture and it’s part of what makes us excited about education. In my spare time I play the role of DrTechniko. I write stories to educate kids and parents about computer science and programming principles. Inspired by the Knewton culture, I decided a… Read more

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I work as a data storyteller at Knewton. This means I look at data coming from different origins with an inquisitive attitude and explore the narrative in it through statistical analysis. The goal is to find a story in the data that is informative and useful and that will help people make effective decisions. For a data storyteller, any new source of data is a reason for excitement. If that source of data relates to… Read more

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The annual Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) Conference brings together educators, administrators, and academics to discuss research, innovations, and emerging trends within the Texas distance learning ecosystem. We’ll be there presenting on why education has reached its “Internet moment,” and how personalization of content is creating even greater opportunities for engagement in distance learning. We’re also looking forward to hearing from some of the most respected voices in Texas education on topics ranging from blended course design… Read more

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