The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

He takes us through lessons that teachers are teaching in Fornite and also the two warnings that educators need to keep in mind when teaching with this tool. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

Adobe 331

Adobe How To Classroom Schoology 331

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

In 2014, Mitch co-founded Edchat Interactive with Tom Whitby and Steve Anderson. Presently, beginning in January 2019, Mitch became US COO of 3DBear, a Finnish EdTech company that uses Augmented Reality to motivate students to engage and learn deeply. Mitch helps organizations succeed in the education market.

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Company Twitter EdTech Industry 339

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2019

For venture-backed education companies, the path to sustainability—and profitability—can be full of difficult twists and turns. Most of the people affected were part of the company’s professional development team, which worked with educators to implement its supplemental curriculum offerings. Oftentimes, change can come at a cost.

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Company Libraries Exercises Software 69

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Pocket Points was founded in 2014 by two college students who noticed a disturbing trend among their classmates in that too many kids were spending class glued to their phones, ignoring their professors' best attempts to teach them. This should help teachers who integrate phones as educational tools keep their students on task.

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BYOD Mobility Mobile Learning Company 404

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

They have a new classroom management tool called Collections. He was a finalist for the Iowa Teacher of the Year in 2014 and recently won the 2018 ISTE Making It Happen Award. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Education STEM Microsoft Company 235

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

based provider of digital K-12 instructional and assessment tools has agreed to acquire Australian education technology company 3P Learning in an all-cash deal worth approximately AU $189 million, or approximately US $135 million. IXL said in a statement that its tools are used by 10 million students and in 95 of the 100 largest U.S.

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IXL Learning Company Learning Assessment 122

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The tool was supposed to enable teachers to tailor their instruction to individual students’ learning needs, but even the kids who had strong math skills weren’t doing well. In addition, Ames rewrote ed tech contracts to require companies to return any unused license to the project for use the following school year.

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Software Company Training STEM 115

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

Yet that’s not the case for Hero K12 , which is announcing, rather bluntly, that it is going on a shopping spree to buy education technology companies. based company is BV Investment Partners , which is giving Hero K12 $150 million to spend on making acquisitions. Often these firms will acquire others through their portfolio companies.

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Company Technology Industry Education 84

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. Over the years, it saw the most success in education and the company shifted to focus specifically on that market. The founders had to bootstrap the company in its early days.

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Company Industry Software EdTech 166

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

What better way to prepare students for coding careers and computer science-related fields than introducing them to the tools that professionals use? The company says it’s making these available to any “teaching-focused institution that grants degrees or certificates,” including non-traditional bootcamp-style coding programs.

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Industry Tools Microsoft Software 86

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

“The era of trying to measure aptitude is finally over,” wrote the College Board’s president, David Coleman, in an essay in The Atlantic earlier this summer, referring to the version of the test that has been in place since 2014, when the SAT was last revised. The group continues to build its portfolio of services around the framework.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The company is also currently turning a profit, according to Carrera. Nearpod offers some of its content and tools for free and sells licenses to individual teachers, schools and districts. The company has changed hands several times. In 2014, it was acquired for $1.1 Today, the platform is used by 1.2

IXL Learning 168

IXL Learning Learning Company Assessment 168

techlearning

AUGUST 15, 2018

5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Not only have the companies on the 2018 Inc. If your company is on the Inc.

Company 40

Company Industry Instructional Materials Blended Learning 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In 2014, Starbucks and Arizona State University pioneered a new kind of partnership. In bringing affordable education to the workplace, companies like InStride, Guild, Degreed and EdAssist are addressing the biggest issues in higher education: career relevance and student debt. Our schools are facing a mental health crisis.

Trends 165

Trends EdTech Education Company 165

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

When I started graduate-level work with machine learning tools at UC Berkeley in 2011, few people outside academia were discussing artificial intelligence. When I co-founded WriteLab in early 2014, a few prominent labs were visibly but cautiously putting together startups powered by that technology. It wasn’t always this way.

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Company EdTech Data Training 95

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Also note, and ironically so, that due to the extended nature of this episode and that we have four speakers, the AI tools I use to write the transcript had a bit of a meltdown, and I've had to apply a significant amount of human intelligence to the transcript which delayed this episode to Thursday. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2017

-based education company announced it will be acquired by Thoma Bravo , a major private equity firm with offices in San Francisco and Chicago. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Frontline CEO Tim Clifford tells EdSurge in an interview that “the company is valued in the unicorn range, well north of a billion dollars.”

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Software Company Education Groups 113

techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

May 24, 2018—The Boston Business Journal announced that Curriculum Associates has been named to their 2018 “Fast 50” list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Massachusetts for the fourth consecutive year. Companies that did not show growth from 2016 to 2017 were excluded. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

Company 40

Company Industry Instructional Materials Blended Learning 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

In keeping up with tradition, we here at EdSurge like to throw our hat in the ring with a selection of the top ten most popular tools from the year. Every week, our INSTRUCT newsletter contains a section called “ S’Cool Tools ,” where we list either popular or up-and-coming edtech tools. worldwide.

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Tools Smartphone Data EdTech 98

EdNews Daily

MAY 31, 2016

New investment into Triseum continues to provide growth opportunities for a company already breaking barriers with over 40 percent of its staff being female. The company’s leading experts in gaming and instructional design are creating rich digital experiences for students. . Video games are inherently a learning tool.

Game-Based Learning 190

Game-Based Learning Education Industry Company 190

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Using AI to develop new and useful tools that help teachers improve their students’ education is at the core of empowering a successful next generation, and Pressto is doing just that,” says Esther Wojcicki, Pressto Chief Academic Advisor. She is also the author of Moonshots in Education (2014). “We

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EdTech Education Libraries Company 92

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Computer science takes us even further as we make the apps and tools we use have new functions and features. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Then we start writing our applications and algorithms. And in my book, that's an A+.

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Course Robotics Video Data 324

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. In 2014, the Gates Foundation awarded the company a $4.5

Pearson 96

Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 96

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

has been awarded the 2018 Tech Edvocate Award for Best Assessment Tool or App. has been awarded the 2018 Tech Edvocate Award for Best Assessment Tool or App. Noting that MobyMax has received a record 43 awards in the past two years, co-founder Glynn Willett credited the company’s success to its unique approach to product development.

Assessment 40

Assessment Tools EdTech Company 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This tool that White’s university has used since 2018 came from Mentor Collective , a Boston-based startup that has just secured a late seed funding round of $3 million. This brings the company’s total funding to date to $4.73 Jackson Boyar and James Lu Morrissey founded Mentor Collective as a nonprofit in 2014.

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Company Laptops Training Software 105

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Zaner-Bloser, a publisher of early literacy resources, has entered into an agreement with ed-tech company Listenwise, an award-winning platform that brings podcasts to the classroom, to promote and sell its listening skills platform of the same name to the K-5 market. About Zaner-Bloser. Visit [link] for more information.

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Secondary Elementary Company Assessment 69

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2019

On the other hand, there is a paucity of coverage about edtech companies that grow their businesses with little or no venture capital or outside investment. Bootstrapped companies rarely have “unicorn” potential and most aren’t nearly as sexy as their venture-backed counterparts. October 2014 My wife and I patch things up.

EdTech 90

EdTech Sony Company Course 90

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But when funding dries up and profits remain elusive, companies have to make tough cuts. The layoffs ranged from junior-level employees to the very top: Cory Reid, who joined in April 2011 and was named CEO in June 2014, is out. Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 113

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

A few days earlier, that company’s competitor Reasoning Mind was acquired by Imagine Learning, a private equity-backed curriculum company. The Seoul, South Korea-based education company was purchased by Daekyo , an operator of after-school learning centers and academic enrichment programs in the country. schools market.

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Company Software Adaptive Learning Technology 113

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

First announced in 2014, the challenge invited organizations to submit open-source software that showed potential to help children in developing countries improve basic reading, writing and math skills. In September 2017, five finalists were chosen to field test their tools with thousands of children across villages in Tanzania.

Tablets 121

Tablets Game-Based Learning Company Learning 121

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

percent annually through 2014, according to investment bank BMO Capital Markets. Aside from a handful of large operators like Bright Horizons, a publicly traded company, most programs are small businesses and home-based operations. In exchange, these companies take a cut of providers’ proceeds. In 2019, total U.S.

Software 156

Software Education Company EdTech 156

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But when it comes to the education technology industry, few people outside the country can name Japanese companies off the top of their heads. But the reality is that “few investors outside of Japan know these companies,” said Wada at the event. A handful of Japanese edtech companies have managed to do that.

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Technology Sony Education Industry 115

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

After two “salvage operations” where she turned around struggling companies, Susan Kim wanted a break from the fervor of startup life. But when she got a call a year ago about an education company with a vibrant community of teachers, she reconsidered. At the time of its sale to NetDragon, the company reported a loss of $19.5

Edmodo 96

Edmodo LMS Company Google 96

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 380 million tally in 2014. Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors.

EdTech 91

EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 91

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Impressed by the learning environment at Summit Public Schools, Facebook said Thursday that the social network teamed up with the charter school network to revamp an online education tool. Still, like any other free education tool out there, Lewis said, schools should think before they adopt.

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Facebook Tools Education Software 40

Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

In 2014, as funding and enthusiasm for education technology was booming, I had been trying to string together a few “yeses” from foundations for the nonprofit venture fund I was launching, Camelback Ventures. In the short term, Zoom and Mural will serve as tools for team meetings and virtual summits. That economic opportunities matter.

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Advocacy Company Policies System 157

eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

alliance began in 2014. Those skills and tools not only help create a great learning culture for our students, but they also empower our educators to stay connected to their work in a deep, meaningful way. one of the nation’s leading virtual/online education providers. system for the next three years. 7 Mindsets and K12, Inc.,

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Secondary Company Training Software 73