The Knewton Blog

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 that the new technology is put to good use: Ceibal is about more than just ‘free laptops for kids’ [...].  There is a complementary educational… Read more

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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 has been committed to educational tech by the federal government, this means that she could have a LOT of say about the next generation of… Read more

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