Education technology to reach 100,000 students in Mexico and Guatemala within three years through digital learning platform Knotion
(NEW YORK, NY – OCTOBER 11, 2016) – LightSail Education, the leading education technology dedicated to turning students everywhere into readers, today announced it is continuing its global expansion by providing its digital reading platform to tens of thousands of students in Mexico and Guatemala.
This first year LightSail will be available to 10,000 students, growing to 100,000 students by the end of 2018 through a distribution agreement with Knotion, a digital learning platform taking best-in-class software and integrating it in K-9 classrooms across Latin America.
Whether using Google Chromebooks, iPads or Android devices, students will have access to a deep library of age and reading-level appropriate reading choices, in English and in Spanish. LightSail’s technology embeds assessments and progress monitoring in the text in a natural way. Students answer multiple-choice, written-response, and Cloze assessments throughout each text. As student ability grows, LightSail tracks achievement and updates the selections in each reader’s library – that way, students are always reading just right texts and teachers have real-time access to track literacy growth and ability to intervene as needed.
The Latin American rollout coincides with the release of Antares Reading titles, a new selection of quality illustrated, non-fiction texts written in Spanish and English aimed at engaging young readers up to sixth grade. In addition, LightSail now offers News For Kids, a series of daily articles in English and Spanish available at various Lexile levels from beginning to intermediate readers.
“Our mission has always been global, to close the worldwide reading achievement gap,” said LightSail Founder and CEO Gideon Stein. “Moreover, we are really excited to be working with Knotion as they’ve been so thoughtful about developing an engaging and comprehensive education platform for the Latin market.”
In addition to Mexico and Guatemala, LightSail’s international deployments include schools in China, Singapore, Spain and South Africa.
“When we were developing Knotion, we sought out best of breed solutions, and LightSail was in a different class from other literacy solutions we considered,” said Knotion Founder and CEO Noel Trainor. “Working with LightSail’s instructional and product team, we’ve developed an incredibly engaging literacy solution to accommodate learning in both English and Spanish on a daily basis.”
About LightSail
LightSail is the adaptive reading platform that helps students, classrooms and school districts exceed their literacy goals.
LightSail students get access to personalized libraries filled with thousands of engaging, just-right texts from which to choose. Our award-winning solution embeds in-text assessments that motivate students to increase the volume of their reading along with the difficulty of the texts they choose.
LightSail teachers get real-time access to meaningful data about student reading behavior, comprehension, and growth so they can provide the necessary guidance to enhance learning and encourage a love of reading.
A study just released by Johns Hopkins University found that students reading a little as 30 minutes a day on LightSail experienced gains at a rate of 2.7x annual expected growth.
For more information, visit http://lightsailed.com/
About Knotion
Knotion is a leading turkey adaptive learning ecosystem. Developed from the ground-up, Knotion supports K-12 private schools in becoming top performing global learning institutions.
Through world-class learning platform, Knotion is empowering students to positively impact their lives and society with an innovative bi-lingual and interactive education ecosystem. This ecosystem is married with a new pedagogical model called the IMPACT™ Model.
The IMPACT™ model encourages each student to be an active participant in the construction of their own knowledge. With Knotion, the teacher is a coach and facilitator, classrooms are dynamic learning spaces, and a trans-disciplinary curriculum delivers 21st century skills to students.
For more information, visit www.knotion.com.