Send us a text Lydia Logan is the Vice President of Global Education and Workforce Development, Corporate Social Responsibility at IBM , where she leads IBM's community and university skilling initiatives that create more inclusive and effective schools and workforces. Her programs help fulfill IBM’s pledges to skill 30 million people worldwide by 2030, and to train two million learners in AI through 2026, particularly those from historically underresourced, underserved, and underrepresente...
Feb 05, 2024•46 min
Send us a text In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss: 1. AI Chegg, Duolingo, Coursera Stocks Swoon as Goldman Warns of Threat From AI Coursera’s CEO announced that Coursera users signed up for an AI course every minute of 2023 2. Edtech It’s a good time to invest in early-stage edtech, investors say Byju’s seeks new funding at less than $2 billion valuation, a 90% drop 3. K-12 National Ed-Tech Plan Outlines How Schools Can Tackle 3 Big Digital Inequities Michael Bloomberg donat...
Jan 30, 2024•53 min
Send us a text Ryan Craig is a Managing Director at Achieve Partners and was formerly an MD at University Ventures. Ryan’s commentary on where the puck is going in education and workforce regularly appears in the biweekly Gap Letter , Forbes , and Inside Higher Education . He is the author of the book Apprentice Nation: How the "Earn and Learn" Alternative to Higher Education Will Create a Stronger and Fairer America (2023). He is also author of A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives t...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr
Send us a text In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss: 1. AI Duolingo Sheds Some Human Workers As AI Threatens To Upend The $65 Billion Translation Industry Moral Panic of “Will Chatbots teach your children” is starting up: “Will Chatbots Teach Your Children” Your Child’s Favorite Teacher May Soon Be a Chatbot Two of Your Predictions for 2024 and Why They Are Probably Not Correct 2. Edtech HolonIQ Removes 13 unicorns from its Edtech Unicorns list FETC is next week! 3. Workforce ...
Jan 23, 2024•43 min
Send us a text Lauren McCann is the head of Figma for Education. She started her career in the classroom, as a middle school English teacher in Hyderabad, India. Before joining Figma, Lauren led product marketing for Google’s core education products including Google Classroom, Google Meet, Google Workspace for Education (Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms, Drive, Jamboard) Google Assignments, Read Along, and more. At Figma, Lauren and her education team are working to bring Figma into more classrooms g...
Jan 22, 2024•51 min
Send us a text In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss: 1. AI GPT Store Opened. What does this mean? South Korea's MathGPT Sets a New World Record in Mathematical Performance US Congress Introduces “AI Literacy” Bill 2. PreK12 As Enrollment Declines, Districts Consider Closing Schools 3. K12 Skipping School: America’s Hidden Education Crisis 4. Higher Education Claudine Gay & Higher Ed’s Crisis. Is it just PR & Politics or is it a deeper issue? The new FAFSA is meant...
Jan 16, 2024•44 min
Send us a text Dr. Maria Armstrong is the Executive Director of the Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) . Her career in education includes serving as a teacher, school counselor, assistant principal, principal, director of English Language Learners, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, superintendent, and as an educational consultant for the Puerto Rico Department of Education leading the department’s Hurricane Maria Recovery efforts. Prior to worki...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Send us a text Louise Baigelman is the founder and CEO of Storyshares , a mission-driven literacy organization focused on engaging and empowering readers and writers of all levels. Before starting Storyshares, Louise was a reading and writing teacher, middle school EL coordinator, and literacy specialist, working with students from preschool through high school. Louise was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list, the International Literacy Association’s 30 Under 30 list, and she has received awards...
Jan 08, 2024•49 min
Send us a text 2023 was an amazing year for Edtech! In this super-sized episode, Ben and Alex review top trends from the year that was and make some predictions for 2024. Also, we asked some of our favorite guests (and Edtech C-suiters) to give their thoughts on what we can expect to see in 2024. Ian Chiu , Managing Director at Owl Ventures Jomayra Herrera , Partner at Reach Capital Sunil Gunderia , Chief Innovation Officer at Age of Learning Hanna Celina , Co-founder and CPO at Kinnu Amit Patel...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 38 min
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•2 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
