Enlearn Blog
Optimizing The Learning Ecosystem At Scale
By Zoran Popović, Enlearn Founder & Chief Scientist-- Technology enhanced learning has delivered successful “pockets of advancement” in schools, but there has been very little success at scale that has made a profound difference. So we need to ask ourselves what...
Identifying Learning Gaps Before Students Slip Through The Cracks
By Sandi Everlove, Enlearn Chief Learning Officer-- My first year teaching high school I was assigned two sections of something called “intervention math.” On day one I found myself staring into the eyes of thirty students who simultaneously appeared to be annoyed and...
Enlearn is Changing the Classroom Ecosystem to Support Underserved Students
By John Mullin, CEO -- When we look inside the K-12 classroom today, we see a teacher, students, textbooks, computers and an ever-widening achievement gap. Much like classrooms of 100 years ago, what we still can’t see is exactly what may be contributing to a specific...
Q and A With Our Ada Intern, Amy Hunter
As an educational start-up, we know that the more diverse our teams are, the better our product will be. We also know that there are too few women developers applying for jobs in Seattle. Our mission states that “We all have the opportunity to learn to our potential.”...
New Technology Solutions Can Help Teachers Serve Students Better in the Classroom
We’re dealing with 100-year-old conditions in American classrooms today that simply have not changed. There have been changes in educational standards and assessments, but what goes on in the classroom hasn’t changed. This goes to the heart of the teacher’s work life....
The Latest Digital Solutions Should Be Part of an Educator’s Robust Toolkit
As we seek to bring more effective technology into the classroom, we have to make sure that the problem we’ve defined aligns with the problem that educators want to solve. Once we’re on the same page, it becomes a lot easier to provide the support that’s required to...
Technology Allows Students to Take Charge of Their Own Learning Journeys
Myriad challenges hamper efforts to scale classroom success. First, vision. Envisioning what a transformed learning environment will look and feel like is difficult! As adults, we have about 15,000 hours of muscle memory from our own schooling experience and,...
Planning and Preparing For American Education’s Digital Future
When I think about the biggest challenges that currently stand in the way of large-scale success in our classrooms, I come back to the fact that the public still doesn’t fully understand how data advances student learning. I also believe that many school districts...
Technology Can Help Support Major Educational Change
Let’s start with a simple fact. Our schools and school districts were designed more than 100 years ago. My kids’ schools look almost exactly like the ones my great grandmother’s schools looked like, except they’re bigger and more impersonal. They’re outdated, and...
Technology Should Be a Bottom-Up Experience in the Classroom
I like technology, and I strongly believe it has an integral place in education. I’ve believed this for decades, ever since I wrote my doctoral dissertation in the mid- 1970’s on how kids learn using computers. Technology helps children think about how to solve...