Edsurge
MARCH 3, 2020
MyBuddy, an artificial intelligence-powered English tutoring app, features a friendly robot that guides children through speaking exercises. The heads of the two companies knew each other, and last year MyBuddy started to build its own language-learning curriculum to add to its offerings. will become the brand for the combined entity.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.” Think Facebook. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. .”
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Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
” Among its cargo: a Facebook / Internet.org satellite that was supposed to provide Internet access Facebook to African countries. ” More on ed-tech funding via Education Week’s Market Brief : “Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs.
Hack Education
APRIL 14, 2017
” Facebook gets in the “ literacy ” business. “Facebook’s News Literacy Advice Is Harmful to News Literacy,” says Mike Caulfield. ” Edsurge profiles Lexia Learning in a new research series paid for by a variety of investors and corporations. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
Hack Education
FEBRUARY 9, 2018
Via The New York Times : “Early Facebook and Google Employees Form Coalition to Fight What They Built.” ” “ Facebook ’s app for kids should freak parents out,” says MIT Technology Review. ” Well, this will be useful to “personalize learning,” won’t it. million total.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 11, 2016
.” Note the significant difference in language in this headline from The Verge , for example – “ Harvard’s Root robot teaches kids how to code ” – and the way in which Seymour would describe the LOGO Turtle – that students would using programming to teach the robot. and Facebook Inc.
Hack Education
JANUARY 12, 2018
Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share.” I dunno… Via Techcrunch : “ IBM led on patents in 2017, Facebook broke into top 50 for the first time.” ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Facebook brings Messenger Kids to Fire tablets.”
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