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Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal

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Nearpod offers some of its content and tools for free and sells licenses to individual teachers, schools and districts. Its largest institutional shareholders are Insight Partners, which led its $21-million Series B round in 2017, followed by Reach Capital. The company is also currently turning a profit, according to Carrera.

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Educators on Artificial Intelligence: Here's the One Thing it Can't Do Well

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But when educators have different concepts of what makes a piece of technology or tool “intelligent,” it means that a variety of tools get lumped into the AI category—even if they aren’t technically “artificially intelligent.” Not so fast argues Chris Gosselin, a Digital Learning Coach at Sanborn Elementary School.