Startup Releases Brainwave-measuring Application to Track Study Habits

Nervanix, a new education neuroscience startup, has released a new application that monitors student attention levels via an EEF headset as they study and guides them to revisit concepts where they lost focus.

The tool, called Nervanix Clarity, measures users’ attention levels and paces along with them as they do things like navigate a webpage or watch a video. Data is then beamed automatically to its software app, where users--as well as, say, teachers and parents--can review it to help adapt their habits.

The company currently has a patent pending for this new category of learning and instruction, “Attention Adaptivity.”

"Nervanix Clarity is the first in a long line of innovative solutions we’ve designed to apply the exciting advances in neuro-technology to instruction and learning," said founder Adam L. Hall in a statement. "This application will offer students a profoundly better study experience, allowing them to be more efficient and more effective with their time and energy – while at the same time offering teachers, administrators and parents better insight into the minds of their students."

The technology is being demoed at the ISTE 2014 Conference in Atlanta, GA--June 28 to July 1--at booth 3172.

About the Author

Stephen Noonoo is an education technology journalist based in Los Angeles. He is on Twitter @stephenoonoo.

Featured

  • classroom scene with students gathered around a laptop showing a virtual tour interface

    Discovery Education Announces Spring Lineup of Free Virtual Field Trips

    This Spring, Discovery Education is collaborating with partners such as Warner Bros., DC Comics, National Science Foundation, NBA, and more to present a series of free virtual field trips for K-12 students.

  • glowing padlock shape integrated into a network of interconnected neon-blue lines and digital nodes, set against a soft, blurred geometric background

    3 in 4 Administrators Expect a Security Incident to Impact Their School This Year

    In an annual survey from education identity platform Clever, 74% of administrators admitted that they believe a security incident is likely to impact their school system in the coming year. That's up from 71% who said the same last year.

  • horizontal stack of U.S. dollar bills breaking in half

    ED Abruptly Cancels ESSER Funding Extensions

    The Department of Education has moved to close the door on COVID relief funding for schools, declaring that "extending deadlines for COVID-related grants, which are in fact taxpayer funds, years after the COVID pandemic ended is not consistent with the Department’s priorities and thus not a worthwhile exercise of its discretion."

  • pattern of icons for math and reading, including a pi symbol, calculator, and open book

    HMH Launches Personalized Path Solution

    Adaptive learning company HMH has introduced HMH Personalized Path, a K-8 ELA and math product that combines intervention curriculum, adaptive practice, and assessment for students of all achievement levels.