Personalizing education for the planet at the Georgetown h.Innovation Summit
Content with context
Digital textbooks
Fast Company’s ’50 Most Innovative Companies’
Why you should learn to code
Gamification and German board games
What do German board games have to do with the gamification of education? As it turns out, quite a lot. Check out this Knewton brownbag talk by our very own James Boo — self-declared board game geek and founder of the long-standing German Board Game Night at Knewton HQ — …
Forbes: March 12, 2012 – It’s Official!
Thanks again to Bruce Upbin for writing such a great article about Knewton in Forbes!
Knewton Salon: How has the internet changed the way you think?
The Edge, the brainchild of mega-agent and editor John Brockman, is this century’s salon–an online community of experts and innovators. In the words of the novelist Ian McEwan, Edge.org is “open-minded, free ranging, intellectually playful … an unadorned pleasure in curiosity, a collective expression of wonder at the living and …
Flash-Frisbee giveaway in Union Square [VIDEO]
Last Friday was Hack Day here at Knewton. In between some hard-core brainstorming and coding, a few Knerds decided to take some time to tackle a pressing office problem. The dilemma: For quite some time now, there have been a bunch of extra Knewton Frisbees lying around the office — …
SXSWedu! Sessions we’re excited about: Teaching and Content
Regardless of the technologies used to consume it, there is no substitute for quality content. We’re fascinated by how the role of teachers is evolving and how content curation plays into that evolution, as well as what that means for student engagement and learning outcomes. Here are four content-centric sessions …
SXSWedu! Sessions we’re excited about: Data and College Readiness
“Big data” — it just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it? Short, vaguely scientific sounding, authoritative — it’s nice to say, but notably harder to really understand, especially given the sensitive nature of the information we’re dealing with in education. The “if” question has already been settled; there’s no doubt that …
SXSWedu! Sessions we’re excited about: OER and K-12
So, we’re heading down to the 2nd annual SXSW Edu this week. We’re really, really excited, but we’re trying to be cool about it. This year’s schedule is crammed with a ton of exciting sessions presented by some of the brightest educators and edupreneurs around, and we’ve got our hashtags …
Welcome Lauren, Solon, Sam, and Will
February may be the shortest month, but we’ve still managed to find time to welcome a whole bunch of new employees to Knewton. Here’s a bit of background on each new member of our team: Lauren North joins Knewton as the HR and Operations Associate. Originally from Southhampton, England, Lauren received …
Cookie taste test: Jose vs. Levain Bakery
If you haven’t read Jose’s blog post about reverse-engineering Levain’s bakery famous cookies, check it out before reading on! Yesterday, our CEO Jose brought in a big batch of homemade semisweet chocolate peanut butter chip cookies. Meanwhile, our VP of Finance Patricia toted a box of dark chocolate peanut butter …
Spring ’12 campus tour wrap-up [VIDEO]
We’ve spent the last month visiting some of the best engineering schools in the country and talking to some incredibly smart students. At each school, we were blown away by the students’ amazing enthusiasm for working on projects that advance the common good — building health informatics databases in Uganda, …
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