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How Google-backed startup Paper makes tutoring free for students

How Google-backed startup Paper makes tutoring free for students | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Phil Cutler waned to help make private tutoring more affordable. Now, his startup Paper is worth $1.5 billion and backed by investors like Google and Softbank ..."

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The great reskill: Is Africa ready to train the future workforce of the world?

The great reskill: Is Africa ready to train the future workforce of the world? | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Immediate attention is required to ensure that the approximately 830 million youth of Africa's future is not left out of the digital world of work ..."

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This edtech startup wants to teach your kids how to be social change agents 

This edtech startup wants to teach your kids how to be social change agents  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Parents today have started to worry more and more about their children’s attachment to mobile devices. Timo Kids, a Brazilian edtech startup, is using the power of this technology to teach kids about different social issues and transforming them into change agents ..."

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Augmented reality platform could help students discover STEM concepts through interactive experimentation

Augmented reality platform could help students discover STEM concepts through interactive experimentation | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Explore! Interactive, a Purdue-related startup, is developing a platform that uses augmented reality to help K-12 students more effectively learn science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM subjects, and increase ..."

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However, while it may be the new “it” technology, educators need to understand how they can incorporate AR into their classrooms if it is to be used to its full potential. https://invisible.toys/augmented-reality-comes-classroom/
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Kenya's tech startups trial digital classrooms in drive for literacy

Kenya's tech startups trial digital classrooms in drive for literacy | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"With limited internet access and regular power outages in schools, will digital education companies transform learning in east Africa? ..."

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Classroom chat bots : classroom interaction

Classroom chat bots : classroom interaction | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"This Slack bot leverages the latest technology to enhance classroom interaction. Based in India, productivity software startup Litlbot facilitate ..."

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Peergrade lets students grade each other’s assignments

Peergrade lets students grade each other’s assignments | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"For as long as I can remember, technology has been seen as a panacea that will finally make education scalable beyond the one to few model employed in the ..."

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LightSail raises $11 million for literacy learning app

LightSail raises $11 million for literacy learning app | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"LightSail founder and CEO Gideon Stein LightSail Inc. founder and Amazon Chief Executive are among the investors in an $11 million Series B round of venture funding for education-technology startup LightSail Inc ..."

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101 startup tools to make your idea a reality - The Next Web

101 startup tools to make your idea a reality - The Next Web | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"If you want to start a startup there are a couple of things you need to have, at a minimum you need: A killer idea. The drive to "get sh*t done". The right ..."

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Lost My Name is a customizable children’s book for the internet age

Lost My Name is a customizable children’s book for the internet age | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"With the trend in personalization continuing to grow in apps and gadgets, it’s refreshing to see one company apply the same tech principles to something even more impactful: children’s books ..."

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Math tutoring startup uses mobile chats to connect students and tutors - eClassroom News

Math tutoring startup uses mobile chats to connect students and tutors - eClassroom News | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Math startup offers round the clock mobile chats and tutor ratings. Stanford University is investing in MathCrunch, an on-demand mobile math tutoring company, with its StartX Fund ..."

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Searching for the next wave of education innovation

Searching for the next wave of education innovation | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"I’m going to come right out and say it: few areas have been as hopeful and as disappointing as innovation in education. Education is probably the single ..."

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Professors help startups teach real-world skills online without university bureaucracy

Professors help startups teach real-world skills online without university bureaucracy | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Coursera, John Hopkins, and Swiftkey team up for data science training ..."


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Startup is making children’s books accessible online, while supporting refugees - The Boston Globe

Startup is making children’s books accessible online, while supporting refugees - The Boston Globe | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Andreas von Sachsen-Altenburg founded Storytime Online, which works with global refugees to create, translate, and narrate children’s books in dozens of languages ..."

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How this edtech startup helps teachers solve the digital distraction problem « Educational Technology 

How this edtech startup helps teachers solve the digital distraction problem « Educational Technology  | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"With the surge in classroom technology use, a few edtech companies have stepped up to combat the issues schools are facing on a daily basis. One company that is helping with digital distraction is NetRef. The software allows teachers to control what their students are doing online in the classroom, both on school and with student-owned devices ..."

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Root Robotics’s 50,000 robots for South Korean school kids shows coding projects can hit scale

Root Robotics’s 50,000 robots for South Korean school kids shows coding projects can hit scale | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"The Root Robotics flagship robot looks a little bit like a miniature hexagonal Roomba — but instead of cleaning up messes, it shows kids how to code. Users can program it to draw, move, and sing through a mobile app ..."

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What would happen if learning in school became more like working at a startup? (EdSurge News)

What would happen if learning in school became more like working at a startup? (EdSurge News) | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"At its most basic level, a startup is a learning machine—one that helps its founders understand and serve the real world in a manner that enables itself to continuously gather information and grow. If it doesn’t learn and adjust, a startup ends ...."

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How VR holograms can train everyone from hairdressers to astronauts

How VR holograms can train everyone from hairdressers to astronauts | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Startup 8i turned Buzz Aldrin into a hologram to train future Mars astronauts, but it's just getting started ..."

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Newsela is using journalism to help students improve reading abilities.

Newsela is using journalism to help students improve reading abilities. | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Newsela, an edtech startup, is using news stories as a teaching tool to help students in all grades improve their reading ability ..."

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Ten EdTech startups from Europe you must keep an eye on

Ten EdTech startups from Europe you must keep an eye on | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"With so much happening in European educational technology sector, check out these 10 EdTech startups that are making a statement in its EdTech market! ..."

  1. Future  Learn
  2. Kahoot!
  3. Labster
  4. Memrise
  5. Elideamy
  6. MyBee
  7. iVersity
  8. Coursio
  9. CareerFounder
  10. Show my Homework
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Why language-learning startup Duolingo is rolling out courses in Klingon and Esperanto

Why language-learning startup Duolingo is rolling out courses in Klingon and Esperanto | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Education platform Duolingo is rolling out language courses in Klingon and Esperanto – the first constructed languages to be offered by the popular language-learning startup ..."

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Solu: the Finnish pocket computer that wants to take over the world | Technology | The Guardian

Solu: the Finnish pocket computer that wants to take over the world | Technology | The Guardian | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Three ambitious engineers from Finland are bidding to change personal computing with a new portable computer and operating system ..."

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Twelve tech startups riding Africa's rising e-learning market - AFKInsider

Twelve tech startups riding Africa's rising e-learning market - AFKInsider | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Africa's e-learning market has recently seen both thinkers and tinkers from around the continent and abroad get together in Kampala, Uganda to discuss the current state of innovation in the sector ..."

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OpenClassrooms launches first MOOC-based Bachelor degree recognized by French state

OpenClassrooms launches first MOOC-based Bachelor degree recognized by French state | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

You won't have any excuse to skip class anymore. French startup OpenClassrooms is launching the first State-recognized bachelor degree in France that relies ..."

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Learning to code with Raspberry Pi - Telegraph

Learning to code with Raspberry Pi - Telegraph | Creative teaching and learning | Scoop.it

"Raspberry Pi was an unexpected success story that helped people learn how to code from home ..."

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