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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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In 2011, Pittsburgh-based Duolingo was founded by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker. Duolingo largely uses A/B testing to try to maximize engagement and improve its learning experience, using data from the platform's learning exercises to develop its AI models and drive both engagement and efficacy.

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As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options

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million since it started in 2011.) LaceyBathala is one of the first students to try the new Pro courses, after finding the pilot version of the paid offerings when she was Googling how to learn SQL, a language she needed for a new job. The company has raised $42.5 Of course, Bathala already had a basic understanding of coding.

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News from the Y: The Latest Edtech Startups in Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 Class

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Over Monday and Tuesday earlier this week, entrepreneurs from 189 startups took the stage for Demo Day, the de-facto graduation ceremony for Y Combinator, one of the technology industry’s most recognizable startup accelerator programs. Among the graduates were a half dozen education technology companies.

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How Has Google Affected The Way Students Learn?

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Would you scribble down your thoughts — or would you Google it? Terry Heick, a former English teacher in Kentucky, had a surprising revelation when his eighth- and ninth-grade students quickly turned to Google. “What they would do is they would start Googling the question, ‘How does a novel represent humanity?’

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Enhance Student Engagement with Virtual Social Learning Spaces

Catlin Tucker

Despite the challenges associated with this moment in education, technology is rapidly evolving to allow students more opportunities to engage in social learning spaces online. In this post, I’ll review a collection of the technology tools teachers can use to engage groups of learners online. Zoom or Google Meet Breakout Rooms.

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Thursday Interview - Creating Personal Student Brands

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She provides technology professional development district wide to administration, faculty, and staff. Christine is a secondary certified math teacher, with Business Education certification and MSc as K12 certified Instructional Technology Specialist. She previously taught mathematics courses at The Center for Arts and Technology.

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

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The book is called Rewiring Education: How Technology Can Unlock Every Student's Potential. The second part of it was that we knew that the technology was continuing to grow. And that we would be able to build a learning environment based on technology that would eventually be all digital, that would meet the needs of all students.