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Online YC Demo Day Includes A Byju’s Rival, Quiz Bowl App, Parenting Advice Platform

Edsurge

COVID-19 led to a more demure, online-only version of startup accelerator Y Combinator’s demo day event this week for its winter cohort. This isn’t CEO Erika Hairston’s first foray into edtech. She previously led LinkedIn Learning’s social learning team as a product manager. The website will be available until April 15.

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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

Hapara

Our students use technology for learning, connecting with friends and entertainment. Many kids are online every day, so it’s important for educators to help them stay safe and develop healthy boundaries with technology. Digital law : Teaching learners about legal issues concerning technology and how it applies to them.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

Edsurge

At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate. From IBM’s test scoring machines in the 1930s to the Speak & Spells of the 70s, innovators and educators have been trying to improve education with technology for decades. But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning.

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Personalized Learning “Twister”: A Future of Learning Live Demo in Dallas

EdNews Daily

But today, this is what personalized learning is becoming because current technologies allow learning to be “consumerized” and for schedules of traditional lecture, whole group, small group, labs and pairings to be “uberized.” The good news is that technology can now do all the heavy lifting.

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Filtering Current Events to Promote Safe Digital Learning

Lightspeed Systems

This Lightspeed Filter-proprietary AI (artificial intelligence) technology categorizes YouTube content and enables your districts to block thumbnails, comments, and sidebars. If you’re not a Lightspeed Systems customer yet, please hit that “ Request a Demo ” button in the upper right corner and let us show you the state of the art in edtech.

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Education Technology Vendors in Higher Ed: Friends or Foes?

Edsurge

During recent interviews with education technology decision-makers at institutions of higher education, I was struck by the sometimes extreme views formed about vendors during the process of procuring tools to support teaching and learning. Vendors as a source of edtech information and influence. last month. in May 2017.

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Maximize Reach with Top eReader Platforms for Publishers

Kitaboo on EdTech

This is where technology is playing an important role. Digital publishing platforms such as KITABOO, for example, expand digitally by combining technologies such as cloud computing, optical character recognition (OCR), robotic automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) to expand digital reach.

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