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Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss: AI Pipeline Perspectives: Trends From 280+ Generative AI Edtech Tools EdTech Companies Are Racing to Build a GitHub Copilot for Teachers Teachers Are Going All In on Generative AI K12 2023 SETDA State of Edtech Report   Curriculum Associates Report: State of Student Learning Common Sense: 2023 State of Kids Privacy Clever's Classroom of the Future...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode of Week in Edtech, we speak to two leaders in the K12 space using AI to support teachers and learners: Deepanshu Arora, Founder and CEO of Toddle Learning Toddle's  mission is to help teaching teams around the world do their best work. More specifically, Toddle is an end-to-end solution for all your teaching and learning needs. Teaching teams use Toddl...

Send us Fan Mail James Grant is co-founder of MyTutor , the UK’s leading online tutoring platform, working with hundreds of thousands of students and 1,500 public schools across the UK and US. Their vision is to make life-changing tutoring available to all. They are the largest partner on the UK’s National Tutoring Programme, have a carefully vetted, 20,000 strong tutor community and have raised $...

Send us Fan Mail Bodo Hoenen is the founder of Dev4X , and a cofounder of NOLEJ , a generative AI for education. He is a collective intelligence scientist and serial entrepreneur whose previous startup’s include an LMS that he sold to Google. Since then, he’s been developing a Super Collective Intelligence, an AI-Human collaboration engine to rapidly accelerate the rate at which we can learn and i...

Send us Fan Mail This episode features interviews with  Johann Malawana of Medics Academy Jen Mendelsohn and Mara Koffmann from Braintrust Tutors Check out the Edtech Insiders AI+EDU Conference !  We also cover: UNESCO's AI Competencies for Teachers Byju's effort to repay repayment through selling acquisitions Flint raises money for edu-LLMs, and Imbue for agents Americans losing faith i...

Send us Fan Mail John Failla is the CEO and co-founder of Pearl , a research-based tutoring platform that streamlines operations, reports actionable data, and improves outcomes for Pearl’s many tutoring partners. Pearl works with states, districts, and private tutoring companies. John is also a Founder-In-Residence at University of Richmond - Robins School of Business and was the Founder & CEO...

Send us Fan Mail Kimberly Nix Berens, Ph. D. , is a scientist-educator and Founder of Fit Learning .  She co-created a system of instruction based in behavioral science and the Technology of Teaching, which has transformed the learning abilities of thousands of children worldwide.  Fit learning programs use virtual instruction to target areas a wide range of skills: early learning skills, basic cl...

Send us Fan Mail In 2022, Heather Combs was appointed CEO of StraighterLine , one of edtech’s fastest growing companies and the leading provider of high-quality, affordable, online courses that helps learners earn college credit and meet their professional goals. Heather has led the company through its first acquisition of ChildCare Education Institute, one of the largest online training providers...

Send us Fan Mail Guests: Dr. Deepak Sekar and Maria Walley of Prof Jim Prof Jim Launches Reelbooks 2.0 - AI Now Achieves Parity with Human Instructors AI  Edtech Companies Rising Atypical AI raised $4M in pre-seed to continue shaping the future of learning and assessment Sizzle AI raised $7.5M in seed for their tutoring chatbot for middle and high school STEM courses , led by Owl Ventures  Course...

Send us Fan Mail Marco DeRossi is the CEO and founder of WeSchool , a leading Italian EdTech startup Founded in 2016, WeSchool is an online collaborative learning platform that is designed to be easy to use- it already enables 1.7 million students and 230.000 teachers to amplify their learning experience by leveraging digital tools. WeSchool recently closed a 6.4M€ Series A funding round to scale...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss: 1. Edtech Investment Cooling EdTech investment cooling in 2023 but growth outlook remains strong It’s been a bumpy 6 months for Edtech — are smoother roads ahead? 2. K12: Private Schools, School Choice and ESAs + Edtech vs. Burnout Private School Choice is Booming. Here’s What It Means for Education Companies Florida teacher...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Satya Nitta is the CEO and co-founder of Merlyn Mind , a deep tech generative AI company working on natural language interfaces and voice computing. He was previously the global head of AI solutions for learning at IBM Research and led teams in the development of conversational systems, speech recognition, and natural language understanding.  Dr. Nitta received his PhD in Chem...

Send us Fan Mail Sam Walder is a violinist, computer engineer, and the co-founder and CEO of Trala , which he founded as an undergraduate at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.  Trala is a tech-powered online music school. Founded in 2017, their mission is to make world-class music education accessible to every single person on Earth. With over 600,000 downloads and violin students in 193+ c...

Send us Fan Mail Edtech Winners of the Summer: - Kahoot! gets $1.72B Buyout - Duolingo continues to beat the market - GoStudent raises $95 (some debt) to expand - Ukraine-based Preply raises $70M (some debt) Edtech Bummers of the Summer: - Paper conducts layoffs - Byju's negative press after board walkouts , despite AI rollout Edtech Partnerships of the Summer: - Instructure to distribute Kha...

Send us Fan Mail Kristina Ishmael is the Deputy Director at the US Office of Educational Technology (which we’ll call the Office of Edtech, or the OET), part of the US DOE . She is an educator, learner, advocate, and agent of change. As the leader of the Office of Ed Tech, she executes the office mission of developing national edtech policy that enables everywhere, all-the-time learning and suppor...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Martyn Farrows is the CEO of SoapBox Labs , the global leader in voice AI technology for children. Martyn joined SoapBox Labs in 2017 as Chief Operations Officer to lead operations, business development, and strategic partnerships. He was appointed to the CEO role in May 2021.  Founded in 2013, SoapBox Labs is an equity-centered, privacy-by-design voice AI company that powers...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Whately is the Chief Strategy Officer and co-founder of Memrise . A psychologist by education, with a Masters in Experimental Psychology from Oxford where he focused on neural networks and computational modeling of human learning, Ben has spent the last 15 years looking at ways to learn and teach languages. While at Oxford, Ben became fascinated by how we learn languages. In t...

Send us Fan Mail Michael Chasen is the co-founder and CEO of Class Technologies Inc. , the maker of Class. He is an entrepreneur who has dedicated his career to improving the way people live and learn. Most notably, Chasen served as co-founder and CEO of Blackboard Inc., a pioneering edtech company with software used by over 20,000 institutions in more than 70 countries by 20 million teachers and...

Send us Fan Mail Charles Abelmann is the director and producer of the short documentary English Hustle . He is an educator with a background in research, policy and practice. Earlier in his career, he worked at the World Bank managing education projects in a wide number of countries including China and Mongolia. He has also led public and private schools including being the Director at the Laborat...

Send us Fan Mail Ellie Bertani is the President and CEO of the GitLab Foundation , with the mission of improving lifetime earnings and economic mobility of workers worldwide. With a background in the nonprofit, public, and private sectors, she brings a shared value, cross-sectoral approach to drive sustainable impact. Prior to joining the GitLab Foundation, Ellie spent ten years in the private sec...

Send us Fan Mail Sacha Litman is a core member of the Public Sector practice at Boston Consulting Group and the global lead for analytics in education, employment, and welfare (EEW) for that practice. Sacha is an expert in talent gaps, higher education turnarounds, pricing, and student financing. Sacha advises higher education, employer, and state leaders on building education/employer partnership...

Send us Fan Mail For over two decades, Chicago Scholars , a 501(c)(3) nonprofit leadership development organization, has empowered nearly 6,000 high-performing, under-resourced students to overcome systemic barriers to success in college. Chicago Scholars is the largest education nonprofit in Chicago, a city of over 2.5 million. In addition to its wraparound support for Chicago-based students, Chi...

Send us Fan Mail Clay Colarusso is the CMO and SVP of Digital Strategy at American Student Assistance , a national non-profit changing the way kids learn about careers and navigate a path to postsecondary education and career success.  Clay and his team focus on creating transformational digital experiences to support today’s youth in the development of their post-high school education and career...

Send us Fan Mail In this final Week In Edtech until August, we cover: L ondon EdtechX  and ISTE Reading/Math Crisis : NAEP Results, Times “Achievement declined across lines of race, class and geography. But in math, especially, vulnerable children — including Black, Native American and low-income students — experienced bigger drops.” “The percentage of 13-year-olds who reported reading for fun has...

Send us Fan Mail Dan White is founder and CEO of Filament Games , an educational game company that’s been breaking ground in game-based learning for 18 years.  Dan believes that good gameplay and good learning are complementary rather than oppositional forces. An alumnus of Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Dan earned an M.S. in Education Technology under seminal learni...