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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

ED Surge

From time to time, Jeff Livingston gets a call from an entrepreneur looking for advice about getting into the edtech market. As founder of the Center for Education Market Dynamics, Livingston has spent the better part of two decades thinking about how to get edtech innovations to the students who need them most.

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What Role Should AI Play in Education? A Venture Capitalist and EdTech Critic Face Off.

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The people who build and fund edtech tools occupy different professional worlds than the educators who use those tools. That was clear when we invited a venture capitalist who invests in edtech companies to have a dialogue with a professor who has been critical of the edtech industry. And those worlds can sometimes collide.

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A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

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. — Deepak Cheenath That puts CoCo’s strategies to keep students engaged or motivated to learn at complete odds with what many edtech companies have been trying to do to teach literacy or STEM — mimic online games like Robolox or Minecraft that children spend hours immersed in outside of school. Quizizz is embodying this shift.

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RobotLAB Receives EDTech Chronicle 2023 ‘BESTIE’ Award for Landmark Partnership with American Samoa Dept. of Education.

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The programs expose students to age-appropriate technology and encourage a mastery of computer science, artificial intelligence, automation, STEM and robotics. The inaugural “Bestie” Awards recognize people and partnerships that improve education technology access and learning across the globe.

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8 STEM Influencers: The Top EdTech Blogs, Podcasts, and Resources in 2024

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In order to share their expertise with others, many of these edtech educators and professionals publish their knowledge, ideas, and experiences online through blogs, podcasts, video series, or other virtual resources. Cultivating a positive STEM culture in your school is the first step to helping your students achieve in STEM and robotics !

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CoderZ Recognized by EdTech Digest Awards as Best Coding, Computer Science and Engineering Solution

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The program was also recognized as a finalist in the best robotics solution category DERRY, N.H. CoderZ was also honored as a finalist in their best robotics solution category. Warm and hearty congratulations to all The EdTech Awards 2024 finalists and winners—very, very well done!

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4 ways to support the growing role robotics will have in society

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By Dmitry Krasovskiy, PhD, Head of Education and Learning Services, EPAM Systems, Inc Here’s how edtech providers can buoy educators’ efforts to teach tomorrow’s inventors to embrace the future through robotics