TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

If you’re trying to develop fluency in a non-native tongue, language immersion is a crucial part of the learning process. The San Francisco-based edtech startup offers virtual-only, English language immersion for kids between the ages of four through 12, by combining a mix of different services from live tutors to gamification.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. “We want the whole world to be learning languages,” Shangkuan said. “That is our vision.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The popular startup, which lets people build and share educational games, has picked up Drops, a startup that helps people learn languages by way of short picture and word-based games. A third, Droplets, is aimed specifically at language learning for learners aged between eight and 17.

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 24, 2023

Posted by Hattie Zhou, Graduate Student at MILA, Hanie Sedghi, Research Scientist, Google Large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-3 and PaLM , have shown impressive progress in recent years, which have been driven by scaling up models and training data sizes. manipulating symbols based on logical rules).

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Whether working with a developer or picking up a coding language yourself, you can truly create something new to either boost your current startup or disrupt the entire industry for the better. Teach Some Curiosity. I want students to be playing with technology — using it, finding out what they like, what they don’t like.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

It’s one of our guiding principles at Tableau and why we support students and instructors around the globe through Tableau Academic Programs. Now I hear, “What can we do to make Tableau easier for all students to learn?” or “How can I, as an educator, get better at Tableau to teach students?” Manager, APJ Community.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

Transform modalities, or translate the world’s information into any language. I will begin with a discussion of language, computer vision, multi-modal models, and generative machine learning models. We want to solve complex mathematical or scientific problems. Diagnose complex diseases, or understand the physical world.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

An Indian startup that began its life after the global pandemic broke last year said on Tuesday it has concluded its third financing round as it enables hundreds of thousands of teachers in the world’s second-largest internet market to run classes online and serve their students. Bangalore-based Teachmint said today it has raised $16.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The courses focus on group- and project-based learning, teaching kids digital skills including coding, website building, games creation, animation and video editing in a way that’s structured to be more fun and interactive than traditional classroom-based lessons. It notes its platform does also offer one-to-one teaching.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

Sphero, a long-time maker of robotic toys , has announced a robotic toy car that’s designed to teach young children about the fundamentals of programming ( via Gizmodo ). Image: Sphero. Image: Sphero. The app lets kids change how indi reacts to the colors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In a piece for Fast Company, Madhumita Mallick, the head of inclusion, equity and impact at Carta, recalls how her name became a source of anxiety even when she was a grade-school student. even just stumbling over a name they had never seen before, the tone set by a teacher about a student’s name [is] something significant.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

The Blabla app pays native English speakers by the hour to create short, engaging videos tailored to English-learning students around the world. The students, in turn, pay a subscription fee to receive personalized video recommendations based on their level of proficiency.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Once they find you and are engaged, you can teach them your language. When the college admissions scandal broke, College Bound, an organization that helps low-income students secure college scholarships, they leveraged their expertise on admissions to share their story and build their online reach.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2023

Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. From math problem solvers and note-taking tools to book trackers and summary apps, we’ve compiled a list of our favorite educational and organizational apps for students to try this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

As with every edtech startup, a common tension exists : the platform has to be hard enough to teach consumers something, but fun (or easy) enough for them to actually use it. We want to create the go-to platform where a student, anywhere in the world, can access content in the most frictionless way possible,” Ruano said. So is edtech.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We’re thrilled that students and other readers who have disabilities that keep them from reading standard print can now read the same books as their peers, using the same devices. Route 66 Route 66, our online platform for teaching reading, has officially launched thanks to support from the Peery Foundation.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As the technology becomes more embedded in daily life, researchers and educators face two distinct hurdles: teaching people to use these tools responsibly rather than over-relying on them while also convincing AI skeptics to learn enough about the technology to be informed citizens, even if they choose not to use it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. Hadley-China students, support staff from Hadley-China, and native English speakers log onto a website at the same time.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She’d laid out the assignment clearly, but student after student was calling her over for help. She asked each student where they’d saved their project. multiple students inquired.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Strive is an online learning platform that teaches kids to code, but it wants to do more than just that. Developed with an active learning model that lets students take the lead in classes, Strive wants to instill in them a lifelong love of STEM subjects. million students in international schools. Learning should be joyful.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It’s important that I make a few caveats here: While I am a language nerd, I am in no way a language expert. The quality of any product will often vary by the language you’re using it for. If you speak another language fluently, make sure you’re looking into additional options for speakers of that language.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 13, 2023

Posted by Jerry Wei, Student Researcher, and Denny Zhou, Principal Scientist, Google Research A key feature of human intelligence is that humans can learn to perform new tasks by reasoning using only a few examples. We experiment with symbol tuning across Flan-PaLM models and observe benefits across various settings.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 17, 2023

Posted by Antoine Yang, Student Researcher, and Arsha Nagrani, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception team Videos have become an increasingly important part of our daily lives, spanning fields such as entertainment, education, and communication. Finally, we have also released the code for Vid2Seq here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Unacademy helps students prepare for competitive exams to get into college, as well as those who are pursuing graduate-level courses. On its app, students watch live classes from educators and later engage in sessions to review topics in more detail. Facebook backs Indian education startup Unacademy.

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Byte Technology

JANUARY 15, 2016

Imagine this scenario: instead of staring at a wall map of foreign lands, students can don some hi-tech headgear and be transported to those places in a 360-degree virtual world of images. —it makes sense that, finally, designers would begin to look past the frivolous and fun aspects of their gear and towards truly worthwhile applications.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

When he came home to Tunis, he met many students who wanted to build products like him each summer. As such, most venture-backed startups build around upskilling students and professionals in software engineering and generally tech-facing skills. Students on the platform go through two types of programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

They encourage self-expression and reflection and can be integrated into the language arts and social studies curriculum. This workshop provides creative ways to channel your student's motivation towards active reading and better writing. Open the teaching and learning process publicly to other interested parties.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2021

Speaking is one of the hardest parts of learning a new language, especially if you don’t have someone to practice with regularly. Founded in 2015, ELSA, which stands for English Language Speech Assistant, now claims more than 13 million users. to teach English through short videos. YC-backed BlaBla raises $1.5M

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TechNode

AUGUST 23, 2023

Alibabas workplace communications platform DingTalk announced on August 22 that it has seamlessly integrated a large language model across its 17 product lines and 55 application scenarios. The new version of DingTalk with LLM-supported functions is expected to launch by the end of September.

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sgEngage

JUNE 17, 2024

Many cite burnout as the primary reason they are leaving the teaching profession, and in response, schools are trying to pivot and focus on the well-being of their faculty and students. Students—and in the case of K–12 schools, their families—do not need 24/7 access to teachers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This edtech startup is yet another “learning English as a second language for children” startup. Novakid’s teaching method is based around the ideas of language acquisition by Asher, Thornbury, Krashen and Chomsky, and it is specifically suited for children aged 4-12. Today it’s Novakid’s turn. fund, LearnStart.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

Duolingo didn’t just throw out the old colors though — it wanted to completely rethink language learning from the bottom up for mobile. He suddenly saw connections between the entertainment that games provided and the patient learning required for languages. he remembers asking. Each skill is a prerequisite for another.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Avion School: The education startup teaches Filipino students to be remote software engineers around the world. Poliglota: A language school for Latin America. Kidato: Targeting the middle class of Africa, Kidato is an online school for K-12 students. The future is consumer over B2B. It costs about $9,000 to attend.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

StudySmarter’s platform can then turn this source material into interactive study aids — like flashcards and revision exercises — and the startup touts the convenience of the approach, saying it enables students to manage all their revision in one place (rather than wrangling multiple learning apps). The Duolingo EC-1.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Bringing the capabilities of LLMs to robotics An incredible feature of large language models (LLMs) is their ability to encode descriptions and context into a format that’s understandable by both people and machines. When applied to robotics, LLMs let people task robots more easily — just by asking — with natural language.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Use descriptive language, and let your excitement shine through when talking about your work. When he wanted people to understand his teachings, he told stories. How many students will get to participate in an afterschool program? They can pay for tutoring so a student can catch up in math. No one likes to be bored.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

published in 2020 (and gathered earlier) finding that teachers were already spending more than half of their time on administrative tasks, not teaching or thinking about how and what to teach or what help specific students might need. To be fair, this problem existed before the pandemic, with research from McKinsey & Co.

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