{"id":67878,"date":"2019-08-06T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67878"},"modified":"2019-08-06T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T13:31:38","slug":"china-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the-world-learns-hao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/08\/06\/china-has-started-a-grand-experiment-in-ai-education-it-could-reshape-how-the-world-learns-hao\/","title":{"rendered":"China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns. [Hao]"},"content":{"rendered":"

China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns.<\/strong><\/a> — from technologyreview.com by Karen Hao
\nIn recent years, the country has rushed to pursue \u201cintelligent education.\u201d Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He risked never getting into college. Then a company called Squirrel AI came to his middle school in Hangzhou, China, promising personalized tutoring. He had tried tutoring services before, but this one was different: instead of a human teacher, an AI algorithm would curate his lessons. The 13-year-old decided to give it a try. By the end of the semester, his test scores had risen from 50% to 62.5%. Two years later, he scored an 85% on his final middle school exam.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI used to think math was terrifying,\u201d he says. \u201cBut through tutoring, I realized it really isn\u2019t that hard. It helped me take the first step down a different path.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The strategy has fueled mind-boggling growth. In the five years since it was founded, the company has opened 2,000 learning centers in 200 cities and registered over a million students\u2014equal to New York City\u2019s entire public school system. It plans to expand to 2,000 more centers domestically within a year. To date, the company has also raised over $180 million in funding. At the end of last year, it gained unicorn status, surpassing $1 billion in valuation.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns. — from technologyreview.com by Karen Hao In recent years, the country has rushed to pursue \u201cintelligent education.\u201d Now its billion-dollar ed-tech companies are planning to export their vision overseas. Excerpt: Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He risked never […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,329,314,174,86,3,391,419,180,119,482,124,432,102,17,7,510,228,163,199,62,69,309,204,13,367,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-24x7x365-access","category-asia","category-career-development","category-change","category-higher-education","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-learner-profiles","category-learning","category-learning-agents","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-learning-preferences","category-mathematics","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-online-learning","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-platforms","category-programming","category-using-teams","category-vendors","category-vision-possibilities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67878"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67881,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67878\/revisions\/67881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}