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Send us Fan Mail Honorlock is an  online test proctoring service that combines AI software like computer vision with decision making of live test proctors. Paul Morales leads Honorlock’s software and operations technology initiatives with a “security-first” approach. Paul believes that Information Security and Privacy are of the utmost importance in both professional and personal environments.  Jo...

Send us Fan Mail Maia Glikman is a Los Angeles based producer whose body of work spans numerous areas of the entertainment industry. Highlights as an executive include several years at ABC Network, Lucasfilm and Sony Pictures Television. Maia is the CEO of GoKidGo, Inc. and Never Ever Productions, female led ventures developing exceptional IP for children and adults respectively. As a creative pro...

Send us Fan Mail Rebecca Kantar serves as Vice President of Education and Director of the Roblox Community Fund at Roblox Corporation (NYSE: RBLX), a technology platform bringing the world together through play. Rebecca is responsible for growing Roblox’s education vertical into a self-sustaining ecosystem of outstanding educational content creators, bringing deeper learning curricular materials t...

Send us Fan Mail Dustin Ramsdell is an EdTech content creator and influencer who aims to drive meaningful conversations with top leaders in the Higher Ed field. His show, The Higher Ed Geek Podcast , explores all the nuances of higher education, with a focus on innovative technology and practices from his fellow professionals. Dustin also currently works as the Community Engagement Lead at Pathify...

Send us Fan Mail Ben Strouse oversees Gen-Z Media , the studio behind the biggest middle-grade and family podcast mysteries and adventures. Its slate of more than 20 shows includes “Six Minutes,” the most downloaded family drama in history and a big classroom favorite, the Peabody Award winning classic “The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel,” and its current hit, “Nightingale”, in which th...

Send us Fan Mail David Shacklette is the Product Manager for the Harvard Skills Lab , a Schmidt Futures funded research initiative and startup that designs performance-based assessment tools that can be used by universities, businesses, and individuals to provide a clearer picture of the foundational skills (sometimes called “soft skills”) required for individuals and teams to succeed in the labor...

Send us Fan Mail Amanda Bickerstaff is the Founder and CEO of AI for Education . A former high school biology teacher and EdTech executive with over 20 years of experience in the education sector, she has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities that AI can offer. She is a frequent consultant, speaker, and writer on the topic of AI in education, leading workshops and professional l...

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Cohen is the founder & CEO of Brainscape , a web & mobile education platform that helps millions of people study more efficiently.  Brainscape allows students of all ages to create, share, and find great “smart flashcards” for any subject, and to study them using a fun, social experience that is scientifically proven to boost learning results. Before starting Brains...

Send us Fan Mail Jessica Tenuta is the Chief Product Officer and Cofounder of Packback, where she works with engineering, design, and support teams to design a product experience that fuels student curiosity and builds more confident writers. Outside of her time at Packback Jessica is the cofounder and creative director of Play Together, a Chicago-based non-profit art-and-music label that produces...

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...