Posts Tagged ‘psychology’

Video games and failure-based learning

Ethan Hein is a content editor and social media guru at Knewton. I used to teach afterschool in City of New York/Parks & Recreation’s Computer Resource Center program. Kids in the program spent a lot of time playing educational games like Logical Journey Of The Zoombinis and The Incredible Machine. The kids would literally fight [...]

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GMAT test day, minute by minute

Alex Sarlin is the GMAT Verbal Lead at Knewton, where he helps students on the Sentence Correction, Critical Reasoning, and Reading Comprehension sections of the test. He shares his insights from test day, here. For the record, he scored a 770 on the test. In reality, test day is not that different from any other [...]

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