Send us a text Dr. Yenda Prado is an edtech researcher, educator, and author, whose work focuses on exploring the social uses of emerging edtech to support children’s inclusion across complex learning environments. She has written and advised on inclusive technology use in education and media for diverse organizations including the U.S. Department of Education, PBS Kids, and the University of California. Dr. Prado also serves as a Ready to Learn Consultant Advisor for the Corporation for Public ...
Dec 29, 2023•59 min
Send us a text Kai Frazier is a former educator and the founder and CEO of Kai XR , designed to close the opportunity gap in under-resourced communities. The KaiXR platform, which uses AI and metaverse technologies, is being used by kids in grades 5-8 in schools, as well as juvenile detention centers, to take virtual college tours, learn about advances in science like CRISPR , and teach kids about historical figures like the late Dr. Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Party. Before creating Kai...
Dec 25, 2023•51 min
Send us a text In this special episode of Edtech Insiders, Phuong Do interviews eight edtech companies at the Edtech Asia Summit 2023 held earlier last month in Bali, Indonesia. Adriel Yong from Ascend Angels John Tan from Doyobi Minsam Kim from RiiiD Raphael Nolden from Amy.app Ryan O'Hare from Keypath Education Ruby Nguyen from Curieous Sandeep and Gaurav from Kaizenvest Vu Van from ELSA...
Dec 22, 2023•3 hr 45 min
Send us a text Kenzie Butera Davis is the CEO and founder of Maro , a pediatric mental healthcare and education app. She recently won the ASU+GSV Pitch competition. As a veteran of the startup industry, Kenzie has supported 70+ healthcare, consumer and B2B SaaS startups from launch to growth acceleration to funding. Prior to founding Maro, Kenzie spent 4+ years composing an academic thesis on the implementation of health education in the US while conducting customer discovery. Her current ventur...
Dec 20, 2023•42 min
Send us a text Todd Mahler is the Chief Product Officer at Edmentum . For over 25 years Todd has led the development of educational technology products for the nation’s leading publishers and is proud to have impacted the lives of millions of students. As Chief Product Officer for Edmentum, Todd drives product strategy for Edmentum, ensuring their solutions meet the needs of the educators and students they serve. Prior to Edmentum, Todd served as Chief Product Officer for Apex Learning and has h...
Dec 18, 2023•55 min
Send us a text Chris Parrish is Co-Founder and President of Partnerships at the leading experiential learning company, Podium Education . At Podium, Chris led the launch of The Global Tech Experience, an industry redefining digital program that enables students to build skills and experience by working on projects directly with organizations like Intel, The Grammy’s and charity:water. Podium currently partners with 55 universities across the world and will support 10,000 students in 2023. His wo...
Dec 15, 2023•47 min
Send us a text In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss: 1. Big Tech: Gemini - Google’s largest and most capable AI model. 2U faces upcoming existential changes - Helpful analysis from Phil Hill on the financial challenges 2U is up against as their stock continues to get hammered in the public markets. 2. Assessment: States are radically changing testing requirements in both red and blue states All Yale students get As 3. Politics: University Presidents royally blow it in Congress...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Send us a text Märt Lume is the co-founder of Futuclass , a company building curriculum-aligned Virtual Reality games to enrich natural science education for secondary school students. With a 15-year journey across Vancouver, Denver, Lviv, Berlin, and Tallinn, Märt has designed gaming, enterprise, and educational software. Notably, in Vancouver he was the first employee of Glitch game, which eventually became known as Slack. A pivotal moment in 2017 introduced him to VR, sparking the realization...
Dec 11, 2023•51 min
Send us a text Nikil Ragav is the CEO and founder of inventXYZ . Nikil studied Electrical Engineering & Business at Penn/Wharton and interned at Intel, Google, Microsoft before starting inventXYZ. In college, he ran inventathons for middle and high school students to learn to build and code real products. He worked with schools in rural PA then remotely across the US to teach CS and electronics. For his work, Nikil was awarded Penn’s President’s Innovation Prize to start inventXYZ. NFL playe...
Dec 06, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Send us a text In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss: 1. Big Tech: Meta launches “Seamless” LLM for speech-to-speech translation. Multi-modal innovation Meta’s Instagram also made news in all the wrong ways 2. Higher Ed: StraighterLine Partners with Acadeum to Offer College Course Sharing 3. In Other News... U.S. Department of Education Holds Off On New Rules for Third-Party Servicers… For Now Curriculum Associates Acquires SoapBox Labs ParentSquare Acquires Remind 2U finances ...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Send us a text Maria Barrera , is a Stanford-educated engineer and founder & CEO of Clayful . She is committed to addressing the youth mental health crisis. Born in Colombia and understanding the pressures of adversity, she leverages her experience from her pioneering role on Nearpod's founding team to create impactful solutions in education. Through her tireless research and collaboration with a diverse team of experts, Maria developed Clayful, offering accessible, preventative mental ...
Dec 04, 2023•46 min
Send us a text Per Borgen is the CEO and co-founder of Scrimba (YC S20), an interactive code-learning platform with over a million users worldwide. He’s also a web developer and coding instructor. Per's passion is to help people change their careers and lives through learning how to build software, just as he did at age 29. These days, he leads Scrimba's AI Engineering initiative . The company has partnered up with Hugging Face and LangChain to create tutorials and courses that help we...
Nov 27, 2023•38 min
Send us a text Anurupa Ganguly is the founder & CEO of Prisms . She founded Prisms to scale a new world teaching model where students learn core math and science concepts spatially, physically and steeped in important real world contexts. Prisms targets bottleneck topics that are often memorized in lieu of deeply understood -- leading to huge gaps and drops offs over time in STEM. Anurupa and her team are transforming math education in the US by rapidly deploying the next generation of spati...
Nov 22, 2023•41 min
Send us a text This is a special episode focusing on two major leader ship changes in technology and their ramifications for Edtech: Sam Altman being released from OpenAI and hired by Microsoft, and Chip Paucek being replaced as CEO of 2U.
Nov 21, 2023•57 min
Send us a text In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss: Artificial Intelligence: Executive Order on AI includes mandate that Education Department roll out guidance on the way schools should use AI technologies OpenAI launches Agents (“GPTs”) OpenAI introduces custom AI assistants called “GPTs” that play different roles My North Star for the Future of AI Forget ChatGPT — Extractive AI Is the Real Game-Changer for Teachers, Students Rosalyn Launches StableSight, an Exam Proctoring ...
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Send us a text Shiren Vijiasingam is the Chief Product Officer at Instructure , the leading learning platform and maker of Canvas. Shiren has built global software products for millions of users, for over 2 decades, with more than half of his time in education. He previously served as Chief Product Officer, both at Newsela, a K-12 content platform, and before that at General Assembly, the pioneer of career transformation education. He has a master’s degree in interactive media from Quinnipiac Un...
Nov 20, 2023•48 min
Send us a text In this special episode of Edtech Insiders, Sarah Morin interviews seven founders of AI education companies at the AI Founders Forum held earlier last month in San Francisco. John Danner , Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Project Read Catalin Voss , Co-Founder and CTO at Ello Christian Byza , CEO and Co-Founder of Learn.xyz Courtney Monk , Co-Founder and COO at Schoolytics Gautam Thapar , Co-Founder and CEO of Enlighten AI Shweta Gandhi , Co-Founder and CEO of Strived.io Brandon Grusd , C...
Nov 13, 2023•52 min
Send us a text In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss: 1. AI + EDU Conference Replays held last October 26, 2023 are now live on the Edtech Insiders Youtube Channel . 2. Stanford Accelerate Edtech Impact Summit 3. Biden's AI Executive Order For AI in general Data Privacy Education 4. Edtech Noon closes $41 million Series B - Wamda 5. Interview with guest Christian Byza of Learn.xyz 6. Funding Rounds/M&As Slooh raises $5M Instructure acquires Parchment for $800M Bibliu a...
Nov 09, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Send us a text Today we’re speaking with Yvonne Soh and Jim Wagstaff, the co-founders of Noodle Factory , an AI-powered teaching and learning platform based in Singapore. Before co-founding Noodle Factory, Yvonne Soh spent many years in adult education, working closely with different companies to incorporate technology to improve learning outcomes. Previously, Yvonne worked in product, product marketing, and solution development roles at Dell Technologies and F5 Networks. Dr. Jim Wagstaff co-fou...
Nov 06, 2023•52 min
Send us a text In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss: 1. Recap of the Edtech Insiders October Events: AI+EDU Conference 730+ Registrants and 70%+ Attendance Rate held virtually Edtech AI Founders Forum and Happy Hour in San Francisco 2. Biden's AI executive order coming Monday, October 30th. Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape 3. Edtech Events: AI dominates Educause conference ASU+GSV Air Show on April 13-15, 2024 4. State of AI Report 2023 : a 160+ pag...
Nov 04, 2023•1 hr 18 min
Send us a text In this episode, join us for an insightful exploration into the ever-evolving landscape of education technology and innovation. Gautam Tambay , the CEO and founder of Springboard , provides a comprehensive look at the dynamic bootcamp industry. He shares valuable insights into Springboard's innovative three-pronged approach, catering to individual learners, businesses, and academic institutions, highlighting the success and impact of this multifaceted model. Additionally, our...
Nov 01, 2023•38 min•Season 7Ep. 17
Send us a text 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. Jordan Adair is the VP of Product at Honorlock. Jordan began his career in education as an elementary and ...
Oct 30, 2023•55 min•Season 7Ep. 16
Send us a text 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 producer, Maia’s mandate is the production of high-quality content that resonates with today’s audience, ...
Oct 23, 2023•46 min•Season 7Ep. 15
Send us a text 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 to educators and students. Roblox Education connects educational organizations with extraordinary Roblo...
Oct 20, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 7Ep. 14
Send us a text 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 . He loves craft beer, good pizza, and sustainability. Dustin lives happily in Delaware with his wife...
Oct 16, 2023•41 min•Season 7Ep. 13
Send us a text 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 three teens with cancer find a portal in the hospital basement leading to another world. GZM Shows focus...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 7Ep. 12
Send us a text 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 market. Prior to joining the Skills Lab, David has held product roles at Fortune Magazine, where most...
Oct 10, 2023•47 min•Season 7Ep. 11
Send us a text 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 learning across both K12 and Higher Ed. Amanda is committed to helping schools and teachers maximize th...
Oct 09, 2023•57 min•Season 7Ep. 10
Send us a text 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 Brainscape, Andrew worked as an international economist (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), eLearning curricul...
Oct 02, 2023•54 min•Season 7Ep. 9
Send us a text 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 limited edition collaborations between a visual artist and a musical artist, with proceeds benefiting...
Sep 25, 2023•59 min•Season 7Ep. 8
