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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

As a former video game designer for Sony Playstation, I’m pretty sure this is going to be easy. We begin donating coding programs and professional development seminars to schools in Nigeria, and are in talks with new schools in rural Tanzania. With our savings and overly optimistic break-even projections, we decide to bootstrap it.

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7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback

TeachThought - Learn better.

It was a transformative experience for me when I did it 40 years ago (using a big Sony reel-to-reel deck before there were VHS cassettes!). What was clear to me as the teacher of the lesson in real time seemed downright confusing on tape – visible also in some quizzical looks of my students that I had missed in the moment.