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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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Since the beginning, the tool has focused on mobile delivery on a smartphone, and the company claims it is the leading mobile learning platform globally , with more than 500 million downloads between the Apple App Store and Google Play, and 40 million monthly active users. Duolingo has a few things going for itself.

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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Districts expressed interest in additional DreamBox products that address other pandemic-related problems, like its new predictive analytics tool, designed to assess student progress and learning loss in lieu of now-canceled standardized tests. That strained the company, but it also notched DreamBox record levels of renewals.

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Best Second Jobs for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Chegg Tutors : Chegg is a popular platform that connects students to tutors in a wide range of subjects. Here are some of the types of resources a teacher might create and sell: Lesson Plans: Detailed plans that outline objectives, materials, procedures, and assessments for a particular lesson.

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Look Who’s Talking—Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution on AI in education

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I mean, if if you’re using it a grammar speller, I mean that’s kind of the AI to a certain degree or even when we use Google as kind of an AI. There’s a move in some case people exploring, you know, how can we use, you know, AI and assessment? I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this. 00:05:24 Speaker 2 Yeah.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

And then lastly a lot of these Learning Gadgets allow you to bring in third-party content — so almost anything that exists on the web you can bring right into a Versal course, organize it, organize it in lessons, put assessments in between, and so on. And if you’re using maps, we want you to use Google Maps or GIS and those kinds of things.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. The TED Talk.

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