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Lego’s Parent Company Acquires Edtech Firm BrainPOP

Edsurge

The company that owns Lego is diving headlong into K-12 education’s switch to digital. Kirkbi A/S, the private investment and holding company that owns a controlling stake in Lego, acquired the video animation company BrainPOP for $875 million. The deal was announced Tuesday. Lego owner Kirkbi is to acquire U.S.

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Authors and companies that pushed flawed reading method fight back

The Hechinger Report

This podcast, Sold a Story, was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago.

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Digital Promise Releases Report on Value of Research in Edtech Design

Digital Promise

Typically, efficacy studies serve as a metric for understanding the value of a learning tool. Over the past three years, Digital Promise has engaged educators, districts, students, and product developers in conversations to identify a crucial signal of edtech excellence: a design basis in learning sciences research.

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Savvas Learning Company Acquires Whooo’s Reading

eSchool News

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, announced today that it has acquired Whooo’s Reading and its AI-driven technology that enables teachers to quickly and easily determine whether their students comprehend the books they are reading.

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Not Even Companies Know if Their Edtech Products Work. Can Learning Science Fix That?

Edsurge

spent $100 billion on edtech during the last decade–with companies raising up to $8 billion in 2021 alone. Digital Promise’s solution: a certification for edtech companies that was originally launched in 2020 to help educators figure out which products are implementing best research practices. Conservative estimates hold that the U.S.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

Edsurge

Earlier we talked to educators who feel disillusioned by edtech companies’ seemingly disingenuous engagement tactics or feel invisible in the edtech choices made at their schools. At the start of our journey to pull back some of the edtech curtain, we set out to survey roughly 30 edtech companies of varying sizes and subject areas.

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

Edsurge

Learning loss is everywhere—and so are reports detailing the setbacks. And “non-traditional” students appear more okay with remote online learning than their “traditional” peers. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. What differs is how those reports measure, how many are measured and what exactly they found.

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