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EdTech Company ChalkTalk Earns Funding to Help Shape The Future of Teaching

eSchool News

Mohannad then used his experience scoring perfect scores on the SAT I and SAT II to write the first English language learner SAT Prep Book and bootstrap his first education company prior to ChalkTalk from $300 to a franchise operating across 3 countries by the time he was a senior in college. To learn more, visit www.floridafunders.com.

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Gaming the System: EscapEDX

Knowledge Avatars K-12

And we run our companies like this. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make. Is it any surprise that our test-driven educational system relies so heavily on multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, one-possible-answer assessments? They have become frightened of being wrong.

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Unlock the Secrets: Expert Homework Hacks for Busy Parents

The CoolCatTeacher

You need to exercise. And exercise doesn't mean being a state champion track athlete. We wanted to do what we could to portray to those students that unfortunately, the way our school systems are designed, I'm not a total fan of like grading, for example, it gives you this feel that you earn something and you are something.

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My School Learned The Hard Way That Edtech Saves Time, But It Can't Solve Human Problems

Edsurge

While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. These companies have claimed to solve any number of problems a school faces. Need to foster relationships between students?

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. Researchers proved that these auditory skills could be taught and early studies showed that they could be taught as a purely oral exercise without letters. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history.

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School ed tech money mostly gets wasted. One state has a solution 

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Utah has devised a system for reducing ed tech spending waste.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

Edsurge

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. The system turns learning into a game, but competitors say that Duoloingo’s flaw is that it is a solitary system that fails to connect users with actual native speakers.

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