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More ACT Science Score Charts

2010-11-12T17:50:00Z

I've been following a thread on College Confidential in which several students are speculating on the scoring of the most recent ACT Science section (October 23). Here are a couple more (abridged) ACT Science scoring charts that should help complete the picture a bit. These scales are a bit more lenient than the I posted previously and thus might more accurately resemble the scale from the October 23 test.

Here's one from April 2009:

And another from June 2009:

ACT Score Chart

2010-11-10T18:47:00Z

Scores from the most recent ACT test (October 23, 2010) are available online today. As the scores come back, many students may be wondering what the numbers mean. For example, "if I got a 29 on the Math section, how many questions did I miss?" Here's an ACT scoring chart from a couple of years back that should shed a bit of light on these types of questions. If you're trying to make sense of your score, find your section score on the far left or right of this chart. Then trace over the the section column (English, Math, Reading, Science) to determine how many questions you answered correctly on that section.

Boulder Fiber and You!

2010-03-23T20:07:00Z

The Stark Correlation of SAT Scores and Family Income

2010-03-19T16:47:00Z

Here's a graph that I put together by plotting some data from the College Board's Annual report on SAT scores from 2009. SAT scores are plotted on the y-axis, maximum family income on the x-axis. A pretty strong correlation, no?

In its press release attached to this report, the College Board states that those students who "had familiarized themselves with the test" scored better than those who had not. While the College Board goes on to say that "one way to practice is to take the PSAT," it's clear that test preparation continues to help those students who can afford to pay for it.

Isn't it time for test prep to be available to everyone?

Musings on the Future of Online Learning, Part 2

2009-11-04T21:24:00Z

In my last post on this topice I cited some stats that indicate that online learning will become dramatically more widespread in the next few years...

An important question remains, however. Is this shift for the better? As more and more students go online to learn, will students learn in smarter ways? Will people be able to more efficiently gather together and learn from one another? Will our educational system improve? These must be our goals, after all. The US Department of Education seems to think the answer to these questions is yes. Early this week I had the chance to review a study entitled “Evalutaion of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning.” Subtitled “A Meta-Analysis and Review of Online Learning,” the study seeks to aggregate the findings of empirical studies on the effects of online instruction. The study samples over 1000 studies conducted from 1996 through July 2008 and concludes that “Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.” Although any statement of this breadth should be taken with some skepticism, this is good news as more and more students go online to learn. The study goes on to say that “Effect sizes were larger for studies in which the online and face-to-face conditions varied in terms of curriculum materials and aspects of instructional approach in addition to the medium of instruction.” In short, online learning proved more effective when the instructional style and material presented through the online environment differed from that presented in traditional face-to-face environments. This speaks highly of the web-based social learning movement of which mindfish is proud to be a part. By presenting learners with information in a variety of innovative formats, we might be able to help students learner in smarter, more effective ways.

To be fair, I’m don’t agree with all of the conclusions advanced by the Department of Education’s study. And, to be honest, I’m not a professional educational researcher and some readers may deem me under-qualified to critique such a scientific study. Nonetheless, I’ve spent of lot of time and energy thinking about these issues and have come to some strong conclusions. Shortly after the above conclusions, the Department of Ed’s study states that “Elements such as video or online quizzes do not appear to influence the amount that students learn in online classes.” Though tentatively worded, I think this statement should be taken with a grain of salt. The sample period covered by the study began in 1996, a time in which web-based video and truly engaging web applications were in a pre-natal state. I would wager that if a similar study is conducted 8 to 10 years from now and samples a period of time starting a few years ago it will find much stronger evidence of the positive effects of video and engagment-based learning tools. Moreover, this claim seems to be at odds with the above conclusion that “varied…materials and…approaches” improved to efficacy of online learning. Lastly, as mindfish itself might suggest, I am of a proponent of the ideas advanced by such thinkers as James Paul Gee, Mark Prensky, and Clayton Christensen that, when intelligently implemented, learning technologies that make use of a variety of new media and innovative forms of engagement have the ability to dramatically improve the learning experiences of many users. In the next installment, I’ll have a deeper look at what some of these thinkers have to say.

Optimism, Humility, and Responsible Action

2009-11-02T22:15:00Z

This weekend I was super happy to have my brother John visiting from Chicago. In addition to being my older brother and one of the coolest guys I know, John happens to be an incredibly accomplished polar explorer. He was here to give a talk about his life and recently successful Victorinox North Pole ’09 trip at Boulder’s own Neptune Mountaineering. On the North Pole ’09 trip John and his expedition partner Tyler Fish became the first Americans to ski, unsupported and unresupplied, from Canada to the North Pole. This trip has been called the “hardest trek on the planet,” and forced John and Tyler to ski for just under 500 miles (55 days), lugging all of their gear (300 pounds each at the trip’s start) on sleds behind them. Temperatures often dipped into the -50 F range. The guys slept 3 hours in the last 3 days of travel. When my family and I met them a few days later at Gardamoen Airport in Oslo, Norway, they were gaunt and delirious, but happy with their success. Truly an amazing accomplishment.

John Huston hauls his sleds across the Arctic sea ice.

The happy and tired travelers at their goal: the North Pole.

It seems like a crazy trip, but John and Tyler weren’t driven by the egotism that sometimes pushes people to bag peaks and attempt death-defying feats of endurance. Rather, their trip was guided by the principles they’ve lived by for a long time: “Optimism, Humility, and Responsible Action.” John and Tyler skied north to prove the power of the human spirit to themselves and those watching them, to test their mental and physical limits in one of the world’s most forbidding places, and to raise awareness about the destruction that humankind is reaping to the earth, a destruction most evident in the dramatic melting of the polar ice caps. A few years from now, as the arctic sea ice continues to recede, it will probably become impossible to recreate John and Tyler’s trip. In our lifetimes someone will probably become the first American to swim to the North Pole. John and Tyler’s trip was thus a wake-up call of sorts, a challenge to all of us to engage with the values they represent.

On Saturday I got the chance to go up to Brainard Lake and do some ski touring with John, Gary Neptune, and Gary’s wife Bibi. Gary is a legend in the global mountaineering community and a pillar of our local community here in Boulder. And he’s one of the most down-to-earth and welcoming people I’ve met in a long time. For all of his accomplishments and feats of determination, he’s just another guy out for a ski on a nice Saturday in October. Just another business owner in Boulder, Colorado. And, as I found out, just another guy who lives a couple of doors down from me in south Boulder. Indeed, like my brother, Gary Neptune personifies the principles of “Optimism, Humility, and Responsible Action.”

Bibi Neptune, Gary Neptune, and my brother John Huston. Left Hand Reservoir, Indian Peaks Wilderness.

I write today not really to talk about business or learning or technology like I usually do, but to ponder life for a few minutes. Not all of us will undertake unheard of feats of adventure like those achieved by my brother John or Gary Neptune. But, everyday we each embark on our own harrowing life adventures in some way. As an entrepreneur and a young person trying to make it in the world I often feel as though I’m engaging with life “unsupported and unresupplied,” standing in some barren landscape, trying to chart my course forward. I think I have a great deal to learn from John and Gary if I embrace the Optimism, Humility, and Responsible Action that they represent.

In an almost eerie coincidence I sat in on an online seminar on eduFire.com last Wednesday, the day John arrived in Boulder. I’ve written a fair amount about the future of online learning and eduFire is definitely at the forefront of this movement. Wednesday’s seminar was led by famed entrepreneur Ben Casnocha and eduFire CEO Jon Bischke. Ben started off the meeting by saying that he considers entrepreneurship to be a lifestyle. Sure, it often has to do with business, but, in Ben’s mind, entrepreneurship is really a set of values, a perspective on life itself. And the five qualities that Ben identified as the core of this perspective are optimism, persistence, self-improvement, side projects (aka curiosity), and action. Shades of North Pole ’09, no? Those qualities that helped my brother safely complete a ski trek that no American had ever before finished are the same ones that helped Ben Casnocha become a wildly successful entrepreneur as a teenager. The same principles that guided Gary Neptune up Everest and Ama Dablam are the ones that can sustain me everyday as I arrive at the mindfish office and fire up my computer. In short, we are all explorers in our own ways. All of our lives are dramatic first ascents and unprecedented feats of determination and endurance. And, if our hearts and minds are in the right place – fired with optimism, tempered with humility, and driven to right action – we all have the chance to succeed on the highest level.

Musings on the Future of Online Learning, Part 1

2009-10-30T20:56:00Z

Fired up by reading and blogging on “Minds on Fire” last Friday, I wanted to share a few more of my thoughts and readings on learning and technology. While we’re hard at work refining our beta release, there are always several core principles and values animating our efforts from behind the scenes. And we’re always trying to educate ourselves at every step of the process.

Earlier today I came across a blog post called “Most College Students to Take Classes Online by 2014.” In it, David Nagel of Campus Technology cites recent research by Ambient Insights and writes about the striking shift occurring in the American educational system as innovative learning technologies become more mainstream. By 2014, writes Nagel, “only 5.14 million students will take all of their courses in a physical classroom, while 3.55 million will take all of their classes online, and 18.65 million will take some of their classes online.” In short, the vast majority of students will soon do some of their coursework online and there will be almost as many students doing all of their coursework online as are studying solely in the classroom. On the one hand, with the current momentum of the OpenCourseWare movement and the rapid ascension of web-based schools and courses, these figures are unsurprising. Nonetheless, as many web-based learning technologies are still in their infancy, this rapid adoption is truly astonishing. At mindfish, we’ve believed for sometime that web technology has the power to revolutionize the learning process. If these figures hold true it seems that this idea will become accepted by more and more learners in the very near future.

To be continued as I ruminate further...

On Fire, Indeed

2009-10-23T22:51:00Z

Earlier today I was sitting in the Apple Store as my laptop churned away in front of me and I finally got around to reading “Minds On Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0,” an article by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler that appeared in Educause Review back in 2008. This piece is one of the most forward-thinking and articulate explanations I’ve yet read of many of the educational, cultural, and technological principles that underlie mindfish.

“Minds On Fire” expounds on a beneficent vision of the future of the internet and its role in education. The authors state that “Web 2.0 is creating a new kind of participatory medium that is ideal for supporting multiple modes of learning.” Whereas the long history of education has been characterized by a “broadcast” type pedagogy in which students learned about subjects based on what teachers told them, Brown and Adler foresee a future in which learners will learn to be by interacting more directly with teachers, mentors, peers, and subject matter. This is a principle that has informed mindfish from day one. As the article states, “The emphasis is building a community of students and scholars as much as on providing access to educational content.” Brown and Adler see the web as “a participatory infrastructure for supporting communities of learners” and “a new, user-centric information infrastructure that emphasizes participation…over presentation.” I couldn’t agree more. Indeed, JSB and Adler even go so far as to say, “The most profound impact of the Internet, an impact that has yet to be fully realized, is its ability to support and expand the various aspects of social learning.”

At mindfish we’ve been thinking about learning and technology for some time now. And while many of the ideas that Brown and Adler advance are not news to me, what makes this article stand out is the stature of the authors and the lucidity that they’re able to bring to these exciting concepts. John Seely Brown was the director of Xerox PARC for all of the 1990’s. Richard Adler is a researcher at Palo Alto’s Institute for the Future. These are not technological dilettantes. The fact that such preeminent technologists believe education is the most powerful application of the internet itself should give us all pause. Indeed, the authors go on to discuss The Decameron Web, a project at Brown Univeristy that is building a social learning community around Boccaccio’s early Renaissance literary masterpiece. I smiled as I read and thought back to my overblown (and probably pompous) post on the Renaissance and state of technology. The folks at Brown sum it up better than I did: “We fundamentally believe that the new electronic environment and its tools enable us to revive the humanistic spirit of the communal and collaboratively ‘playful’ learning of which the Decameron itself is the utmost expression.” In short, technology is driving a latter-day cultural and educational Renaissance. We live in an age where technology can help us understand and learn about the world around us in new and powerful ways. Not only do we have the tools to unlock the secrets of timeless literature like The Decameron or learn about almost any other conceivable subject, but with the right intentions we also have the power to access the potential within ourselves and aid in the growth and fulfillment of those around us. It’s an exciting time.

Thanks for your words John and Richard.

Introducing Daily Video Vocab!

2009-05-31T19:21:00Z

Sick of flash cards?! Try Daily Video Vocab from MindFish.

About a week ago, MindFish fired up a new Facebook page. Click here to go to our new Facebook page.
As our young SAT Quest community (and most of the world at large!) is made up of Facebook users, we’ll be using our MindFish Facebook page to connect with our users and share valuable information.

Daily Video Vocab will be our first concerted program this new page. Every day we’ll prompt our users to define an important SAT vocabulary word. Hopefully this will get you thinking… Later in the day, we’ll post a short, memorable video that will define the word for you. All you have to do is watch and learn! If you get in the habit of watching these videos regularly, you’re sure to notice the results down the road. Vocab is a big part of the SAT.

If you’re not a future SAT taker yourself, despair not. Our videos are short, fun, and memorable, and can help anyone boost his or her vocab skills!

Cheers and happy viewing!

Say Goodbye to Test Anxiety

2009-04-17T13:46:00Z

Test Anxiety is a common culprit behind poor test performance. A recent Article in Scientific American's Mind Magazine pointed to experimental evidence that the brain center for anxiety occurs in the same location as high cognitive processing. Consequently, when you feel stressed, you are actually less intelligent. Here are some things you can do to eliminate test anxiety.

1. Believe in yourself and think positively- Anxiety is a self fulfilling prophecy that will snow ball if you expect to do poorly or envision bad things happening on the day of the test. Believe in yourself and visualize yourself acing the test! If you need help thinking positively watch this scene from Happy Gilmore.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/24395/happy-gilmore-send-the-ball-home

2. Prepare early and often- Being prepared gives you greater confidence and removes self-doubt. Try to start preparing at least 8 weeks before your SAT and make sure to try and study for 15 minutes a day rather than a few large study sessions close to the test.

3. Manage your time - Make sure you are not rushed at the end of sections by skipping an occasional question and by keeping a pace that will allow you to attempt all the questions in a section. Do not put yourself in a position where you have to complete the final 4 or 5 questions in a few minutes. You will be much more comfortable using the last few minutes to go back and look at the few questions you initially skipped.

4. Eat well- A proper diet can help keep you in the right state of mind, and in some cases can actually improve your brain chemistry. Check out what the Mayo Clinic has to say about diet and anxiety.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/coping-with-anxiety/AN01589

5. Maintain a consistent sleep regiment- While most students understand the importance of a good night's sleep, not many understand the importance of a consistent sleep regiment during the week of the test. Try your best to maintain a consistent sleep schedule during the week of the test and make sure to get a good night's sleep TWO NIGHTS BEFORE THE TEST. Read what a doctor had to say about sleep.

http://www.ehow.com/how_2263964_sleep-before-test.html

6. Relax and improve your recall with music- A trick that served me well before my SAT in addition to the many finals I took in college was to listen to uplifting music while I was preparing and immediately before tests. You will be amazed at how the last song you listen to in the car will stay with you through the entire test. It can help you stay calm and may even help jog your memory. Neurological evidence has proven that listening to classical music such as Mozart can even raise your IQ. If you're not a big classical music fan, check out the soundtracks for Last of the Mohicans and Jurassic Park. Go to itunes.com now and download a SAT study CD

http://www.apple.com/itunes/overview/?ref=http://itunes.com

7. Avoid unnecessary stress- The last thing you need is extra stress on the day of your SAT. Make sure you know how to get to your test site and arrive early so that you don't feel rushed during the check in process. Additionally, fight the urge to sit next to your friends. People have a tendency to internalize the stress of those around them and you don't want to be looking over at a friend every time he or she sighs in frustration.

8. Exercise regularly- Studies have proven that exercise reduces stress and helps you get higher quality sleep. Try to get a good workout in on the Thursday and Friday before your test; you will fall asleep sooner and sleep deeper.

9. Warm up your brain- Don't expect your brain to wake up the moment you open up your test booklet. Wake up early enough so that you have time to shower and to eat breakfast. Also try to spend a few minutes reading a novel or the newspaper to warm up your brain; play Sudoku or do a crossword puzzle but don't do any new SAT problems.

Our Principles

2009-04-03T14:47:00Z

1. Everyone deserves access to educational materials. Since we are initially targeting the test prep and college admissions markets, let's be more specific. Everyone deserves help with mandatory standardized tests and a good shot at getting to the college of his or her choice. If a student is motivated and has a goal, access to helpful study aids and knowledgable peers and professionals should not be a barrier to success. Right now, there are a variety of circumstantial barriers related to standardized testing that prevent students from achieving their goals. At Mindfish, we hope to overcome these obstacles.

2. Learning should be fun. Traditional test prep materials have significant problems. They are long. They are boring. They are static and do not adapt to the specific needs of each individual student. Simply put, they do not mesh with the current cultural, technological, and pedagogical climate. MindFish is specifically designed to address each of these issues. We know that students are spending a lot of time online. We know that they are interacting in meaningful ways and creating content while there. And we know that many young students learn better through a modality other than the strictly liguisitic (print books). MindFish aims to tap this technological engagement and these learning habits and channel them into educational success.

3. There is someone out there who can help you. Every student has individual strengths and weaknesses and specific needs. Nonetheless, about 2 million take the SAT test every year, many more students apply for college annually, and there is a very deep, loosely knit network of independent educators and counselors throughout the country and world. Other students have had been through this process before and are going through it right now. Part of our goal at MindFish is to connect you with peers and professionals who can answer your questions, share their knowledge, and help you succeed.

4. People learn better together. Human beings are social creatures. This is reflected dramatically in the unprecedented growth of the online world. In less than a decade the world wide web has morphed from a repository of the world's information (think Google) to a people-driven platform for interaction and real time exchange of ideas (think Facebook and Twitter). We believe that the boundary lines between the online and offline worlds are fluid and that our individual knowledge and self-awareness and those of our culture as a whole do not recognize such distinctions. At MindFish, we are striving to connect people and ideas in intelligent ways to raise the educational bar for everyone.

5. The time is now. We believe that social learning is the future of learning and that education is the future of our society. The United States, in particular, is currently at a dramatic crossroads. There are more young people in our country than ever before and, at the same time, our educational institutions are sputtering. Meanwhile, our students are remarkably adept at using modern technology and voracious consumers of online content. We believe that the time is ripe to capitalize on this engagement and convert it into educational achievement.

SAT Quest is Live on Facebook

2009-04-01T04:19:00Z

We're excited to announce that our game SAT Quest has been submitted to the Facebook directory and will soon be live for all Facebook users. In the meantime, you can find SAT Quest at apps.facebook.com/satquest

We've been working hard on SAT Quest for the last several months and we believe that it is a very powerful new way to study for the SAT. Sick of long, boring test prep books with filled with seemingly infinite black and white pages? Care about how you do on the SAT, but can't quite stomach vocab flash cards? Want to convince your parents that you're not just wasting time on Facebook all evening? We think SAT Quest might be just what the doctor ordered. Have a look:

Beat the Game, Ace the Test
SATQuest is a new way to study for the SAT. Short, five question games will help you master the test, piece by piece. You will see the most common SAT questions first and work your way towards more difficult and unusual problem types as you level up. To make sure there's enough material to keep you fresh, we've loaded the system with around 2000 SAT questions. Every topic is covered in great detail and SAT Quest is designed to help you with the types of questions that you need to work on most. This is not just a random collection of SAT style questions, but an interactive application that will adapt to your strengths and weaknesses to help you succeed.

Learn More!
Be sure to follow the "Learn More!" links to boost your understanding of the SAT. These links will take you to the MindFish wiki, a comprehensive resource that includes lessons on every type of SAT question. Pretty soon, you'll be also able to follow links to find specific tutors and/or other students to answer your questions and help you with you studies.

Apprentice to Samurai
Test prep is important for your future, but it shouldn't have to be boring. The actual SAT is boring enough. This game is just the first glimpse of the kinds of fun learning tools you'll soon see at MindFish, but SAT Quest is designed as a more enjoyable alternative to SAT study guides. You'll start out the game as a young, defenseless apprentice. As you earn points your character will level up and grow more powerful to display your SAT mastery. We're also working to soon launch a battle mode within SAT Quest. With this feature, you'll soon be able to challenge your friends to interactive SAT Quest battles and strive for SAT domination.

Please have a look at SAT Quest on Facebook. The game should find its way to its proper home here at MindFish very soon as well. Have fun playing, happy studying, and (as always) please drop me line with feedback if you have comments or problems. Thanks!

Snow Day!

2009-03-31T00:46:00Z

At the end of last week, Boulder was hit with our typical March snowstorm. Seems like every year, just as the trees start to bud, a good ol' upslope slammer comes along and buries us in the fluffy stuff for a few more days. As an avid skier and general fan of moisture (which CO sorely needs) I was ecstatic. A Boulder spring storm is always cause for celebration, even though I might advise you to think twice about skiing down Kohler Mesa as I did on Thursday afternoon. ;)

For many folks around town, Thursday's storm was good cause to shut the doors and head home from work for the day. Personally, the weather gave me pause to ponder again what we're up to here at MindFish. I had several tutoring appointments in Denver Thursday afternoon that I had to cancel after Highway 36 got shut down. Instead of just calling it a wash and leaving my students in weather-driven lurch the week before the ACT test, I fired up some video chat software and did a couple of tutoring sessions on my laptop, a cup of hot coffee by my side as the snow raged on beyond my window. In real time I was experiencing some of the problems and potential solutions that have given rise to MindFish. Distance, scheduling, and weather had ceased to be impediments to the learning process. As I worked, chatted, and laughed with my students, I had a glimpse of what the future might hold.

The world today has the potential to be a modern day Renaissance. The Rennaissance was a time of rebirth, a time that brought the old classics of western culture back into the light of artistic creation and intellectual scrutiny. Yet it was also a time in which cultures, driven by advances in technology and communication, began to intermingle, create, and innovate in ways the world had never seen before. Gutenberg's printing press allowed for an unprecedented dissemination and preservation of knowledge. Advances in cartography and navigation powered explorations and cultural exchanges. Musical notation was born and disparate cultures began to study and perform the works of their neighbors. Certainly, as even a cursory glance at the history of colonialism will suggest, the Renaissance was not a period of pure sweetness and light. Native cultures were crushed and subjugated by their imperial neighbors, war raged on as always, and the humankind's hubris remained unquenchable. We need look only at a seminal Renaissance artifact - Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince - to remind ourselves that this vibrant period was marked also by the rise of tyrants and megalomaniacs. Nonetheless, in the sweep of recorded history, the Renaissance period stands alone in the sheer depth and breadth of its cultural creation. In the twilight of the web 2.0 era, we stand at a similar moment in time. The exchange of knowledge and the cultural sharing possible in our world today are truly without precedent. Thanks to modern technology, anyone with an internet connection can learn almost anything he or she chooses to seek out. Someone born in the Phillipines could choose to devote her life to learning the claw hammer banjo and the intricacies of Apalachian mountain music. With a little initiative, she could soon find enough recordings, videos, tutorials, and other resources to build a lifetime of knowledge. Meanwhile, an old banjo picker from Harlan county could spend his evenings and weekends learning to converse in Tagalog. In a perfect technological world, these two people might even meet each other online and decide to share their respective expertise, mutually benefitting and driving their learning journeys forward. The technology at our fingertips makes it all possible.

Take it easy, you might say...just because you taught a couple of kids about the ACT exam during a snowstorm, you think you're going to recreate the European Renaissance?! It may seem like a whimsical leap of the imagination, but the principles that underlay the greatest period of cultural productivity in western history are the same that guide us in our daily tasks here at MindFish. Building connections and sharing knowledge...these are our core values. Whether it's the practical inaccessibility caused by a spring snowstorm or the geographic distance caused by the accident of birth on different continents, barriers to gaining knowledge will soon evaporate under the focused application of information technology. Location, money, time, and motivation will cease to be impediments to our learning processes. We will not achieve these goals alone, but at MindFish we are working everyday to stimulate the free flow of knowledge between individuals and to make educational resources available to anyone who wants them. Crafting a dream and building a passion for success are difficult enough. Anyone able to forge these admirable character traits should have the resources he needs made readily available to him.

At MindFish we are planning to do just that. We are a social learning company dedicated to helping students around the world achieve their dreams of higher education. We hope to soon help students overcome the hurdles before them - geography, time, money, and lack of educational resources - to make these dreams a reality. We are young, driven, and utterly dedicated to this vision. Thanks for reading and please stay tuned. It promises to be an exciting ride.

Howdy!

2009-03-19T03:08:00Z

Howdy, folks!

Welcome to MindFish!

We're very excited to bring you a suite of new resources to help you prepare for standardized tests like the SAT and ACT. Soon you'll be able to use our ground-breaking Facebook app SAT Quest right here on MindFish.com.

We also think that with the ideas and technologies that we're building MindFish around, we might just be able to help change the way people learn. Never before have tools existed that can bring people, ideas, and information together in the way MindFish will make possible. Imagine...what if everyone in the world who was interested in learning something came together to share information, trade tips, ask questions, and learn from each other? That's just what we're trying to do here at MindFish. Our tagline is more than just a slogan or pitch; it's a philosophy, a way of life that we're working night and day to realize.

MindFish... Learn. Play. Together.

Talk to you soon!

Bill