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National Post
a day ago
- Business
- National Post
Cognita Partners with Flint to Roll Out Personalized AI Learning Across Global School Network
Article content NEW YORK — Flint, a leading AI platform built for K-12 personalized learning, announced today a new partnership with leading global K-12 schools group, Cognita. With over 100 schools and 95,000 students in 17 countries, Cognita provides world class education around the globe. This announcement of a phased rollout across Cognita schools follows a successful pilot across six schools, and marks a major commitment to responsible, personalized AI integration in K-12 learning environments. Article content 'I am thrilled that the pilot has been such a success, and we are excited to continue working together in a way that will bring the best of AI to our educators and students around the world.' —Dr. Simon Camby, Group Chief Education Officer at Cognita Article content The pilot program included Colegio Olinca in Mexico City, International School of Ho Chi Minh City (ISHCMC), The Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai, Southbank International School in London, ISHCMC American Academy (AAVN), and The British School of Barcelona. Results showed significantly improved student learning outcomes across multiple areas from mathematics to languages and college essay feedback. Article content Flint enables Cognita teachers to generate custom, interactive activities, deliver differentiated learning materials, and provide instant formative feedback. Students can also use Flint to get additional practice problems, brainstorm ideas, and develop AI literacy with proper guardrails. Article content Dr. Simon Camby, Group Chief Education Officer at Cognita, commented: 'Our approach is to take a considered view about the most effective and impactful ways to integrate AI into our classrooms in order to ensure that it truly benefits our teachers and students. After a thorough selection process, we chose to work with Flint because of its flexibility and ability to align with how our schools teach and operate, while also delivering the personalized learning experience we want for every student. I am thrilled that the pilot has been such a success, and we are excited to continue working together in a way that will bring the best of AI to our educators and students around the world.' Article content 'We couldn't be more excited to be partnering with Cognita,' said Sohan Choudhury, CEO of Flint. 'Through our first partnership with a Cognita school during the 2023-24 school year and the pilot earlier in 2025, we've had the opportunity to work closely with educators at a number of Cognita schools. We've been amazed by their commitment to personalizing learning for students, as well as by the focus from Cognita's leadership on embracing AI in a way that enhances, not replaces, the teacher's role in the classroom.' Article content Onboarding will include custom professional learning sessions for faculty, student-facing AI literacy programming, and family engagement resources to ensure transparent implementation aligned with community values. The partnership positions both organizations at the forefront of ethical, effective AI use in education. Article content Flint is an AI-powered learning platform built for K-12 classrooms. Designed to support both teachers and students, Flint enables personalized instruction, curriculum-aligned content generation, and real-time feedback, all with educator oversight of AI use. Article content Article content Article content Article content Media Contact Article content Article content Article content
Fast Company
21-05-2025
- Science
- Fast Company
Why diversity training should be customized to different ‘personas'
Diversity training is more effective when it's personalized, according to my new research in the peer-reviewed journal Applied Psychology. As a professor of management, I partnered with Andrew Bryant, who studies social marketing, to develop an algorithm that identifies people's 'personas,' or psychological profiles, as they participate in diversity training in real time. We embedded this algorithm into a training system that dynamically assigned participants to tailored versions of the training based on their personas. We found that this personalized approach worked especially well for one particular group: the 'skeptics.' When skeptics received training tailored to them, they responded more positively—and expressed a stronger desire to support their organizations' diversity efforts—than those who received the same training as everyone else. In the age of social media, where just about everything is customized and personalized, this sounds like a no-brainer. But with diversity training, where the one-size-fits-all approach still rules, this is radical. In most diversity trainings, all participants hear the same message, regardless of their preexisting beliefs and attitudes toward diversity. Why would we assume that this would work? Thankfully, the field is realizing the importance of a learner-centric approach. Researchers have theorized that several diversity trainee personas exist. These include the resistant trainee, who feels defensive; the overzealous trainee, who is hyper-engaged; and the anxious trainee, who is uncomfortable with diversity topics. Our algorithm, based on real-world data, identified two personas with empirical backing: skeptics and believers. This is proof of concept that trainee personas aren't just theoretical—they're real, and we can detect them in real time. But identifying personas is just the beginning. What comes next is tailoring the message. To learn more about tailoring, we looked to the theory of jujitsu persuasion. In jujitsu, fighters don't strike. They use their opponent's energy to win. Similarly, in jujitsu persuasion, you yield to the audience, not challenge it. You use the audience's beliefs, knowledge, and values as leverage to make change. In terms of diversity training, this doesn't mean changing what the message is. It means changing how the message is framed. For example, the skeptics in our study still learned about the devastating harms of workplace bias. But they were more persuaded when the message was framed as a 'business case' for diversity rather than a 'moral justice' message. The 'business case' message is tailored to skeptics' practical orientation. If diversity training researchers and practitioners embrace tailoring diversity training to different trainee personas, more creative approaches to tailoring will surely be designed. Our research offers a solution: Identify the trainee personas represented in your audience and customize your training accordingly. This is what social media platforms like Facebook do: They learn about people in real time and then tailor the content they see. To illustrate the importance of tailoring diversity training specifically, consider how differently skeptics and believers think. One skeptic in our study—which focused on gender diversity training—said: 'The issue isn't as great as feminists try to force us to believe. Women simply focus on other things in life; men focus on career first.' In contrast, a believer said: 'In my own organization, all CEOs and managers are men. Women are not respected or promoted very often, if at all.' Clearly, trainees are different. Tailoring the training to different personas, jujitsu style, may be how we change hearts and minds. What still isn't known Algorithms are only as good as the data they rely on. Our algorithm identified personas based on information the trainees reported about themselves. More objective data, such as data culled from human resources systems, may identify personas more reliably. Algorithms also improve as they learn over time. As artificial intelligence tools become more widely used in HR, persona-identifying algorithms will get smarter and faster. The training itself needs to get smarter. A onetime training session, even a tailored one, stands less of a chance at long-term change compared with periodic nudges. Nudges are bite-sized interventions that are unobtrusively delivered over time. Now, think about tailored nudges. They could be a game changer.
