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In the News: Educational Android Apps Improperly Track Children

Doug Levin

” Which companies have apps that are flagged for privacy invasions by the study authors? Khan Academy. . “When their children are using those apps, parents should have a reasonable expectation of privacy.” Among others (in no particular order): Duolingo. McGraw-Hill Education.

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Could the Bridge Across the Digital Divide Be Paved With TV Signals?

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Endless Network , a global organization committed to addressing equity gaps stemming from challenges such as inadequate internet access, strategically directs investments towards international companies that share their mission and actively contribute to its realization. And when they hit send, we're integrated in the background.

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The Best Flipped Classroom Software Tools For Flipped Learning In 2021

Fractus Learning

Khan Academy. Khan Academy provides personalized learning for students at their pace and is an excellent flipped classroom tool for teachers to identify their students’ strengths and needs. Schoology is an LMS that feature assessments, instructional tools, collaboration, and analytics. SurveyMonkey.

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

Edsurge

Early this decade there was perhaps no one person—not even Bergmann or Sams—more associated with flipping the classroom than Sal Khan, due in no small part to the more than 140 million views his Khan Academy videos had racked up by 2012. But to hear Khan tell it, that association was little more than a coincidence of timing.

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No Kidding: This Pre-Revenue Edtech Startup Just Raised $15M in Series B Funding

Edsurge

But the company has kept mum on specifics to everyone else, only sharing that it’s seen “viral growth across hundreds of thousands” of U.S. It took some time for the company to build all these tools. But that could change as the company rolls out its newest product, Kiddom Academy. He is also Kiddom’s newest board member.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”