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Smart Sparrow Raises $4 Million to Help Teachers—Not Tools—Drive Adaptive Learning

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In 2005, Ben-Naim, then a Ph.D. Smart Sparrow’s approach, he says, is that “product-market fit is about where the market should be—not where it is now.”. From Down Under to Top-Notch Funders. Smart Sparrow is technically a startup, but the product has been in the making for more than a dozen years.

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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

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We’re trying to take what we do well in cognitive science and adaptive learning, and bring that to the content that New Mountain has.” Also staying the same is Barry Malkin’s role as CEO of Carnegie Learning, as he will keep that title after the merger. Expect Carnegie Learning to add more edtech tools to its portfolio.

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The 7 Key Elements of eSpark’s Theory of Learning

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Computerized Dynamic Adaptive Tests with Immediately Individualized Feedback for Primary School Mathematics Learning. Furthering this, both time on instruction and student engagement have produced a significant, positive association with achievement in math (Bodovski et al., 4: Direct Instruction Ensures Success. Lepper, M. Corpus, J.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Nicholas Negroponte first started talking up his vision for a $100 laptop at the World Economic Forum in 2005. There was slightly more buzz when Negroponte pitched the idea again at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis in 2005. You can learn anything on YouTube, we’ve been told.

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