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Expanding into Early Childhood Is Good for Edtech Companies. Is It Good for Kids?

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The nonprofit Khan Academy launched its own early learning app, called Khan Academy Kids, back in 2018. Since the app’s launch, Khan Academy has recorded 475 million books read by children, 854 million math lessons and 59 million minutes of physical activity such as singing and dancing.

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The Next Wave of Edtech Will Be Very, Very Big — and Global

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Braced for the next wave of edtech? The most recent player to step into the edtech spotlight is India’s Byju’s. Byju’s growth demonstrates how the edtech market is truly becoming borderless,” says Isabelle Hau, a longtime global impact education funder who is working on a book on early childhood learning. “We It will be big.

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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Soon, schools would be inundated with sales pitches from edtech companies, and it didn’t take long before they started pushing back against those that seemed predatory. For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Yet this reality seems not to have dampened investor enthusiasm for private edtech companies.

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How to make edtech entrepreneurship more inclusive

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In this MarketScale EdTech Today podcast from host Kevin Hogan, remote learning expert Sal Khan and Anne Wintroub, director of Social Innovation for the AT&T Foundation, discuss a variety of topics related to edtech, COVID learning, and connectivity. Sal Khan : Yeah, I completely predicted it. “Oh, wow. .”

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Hour of Code Plugged and Unplugged Activities and Resources

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Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Khan Academy – Students will walk through video lessons that teach them about a programming language. December 7 to 13th is the annual Hour of Code event. Kodable has different free activities for elementary students such as creating fuzzies and mazes peers can play on.

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Learning Loss Is Everywhere. But How Do the Reports Compare?

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As some schools reopen, edtech product use declines. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. It then compared annual growth from fall 2019 to fall 2020 to average annual fall-to-fall growth rates in previous years. schools who took NWEA’s MAP Growth in fall 2020, with a comparison of the results to fall 2019.

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Dozens of Venture-Backed Startups Among Edtech Recipients of PPP Loans

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Even an investment firm that has supported dozens of edtech startups appeared on the list. When school closures started happening, edtech companies started hurting for cash. Funding for Big Fishes Among venture-funded edtech companies that received a PPP loan, Altitude Learning has raised the most capital.

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