ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

The edtech market is saturated with various tools designed to improve children’s literacy from e-readers to apps to digital libraries. Referred to as AI-powered reading coaches, assistants or tutors, these tools use generative AI to provide learners with personalized reading practice, stories, feedback and support.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

Should AI chatbots be used as tutors? That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. The book is called “ Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing). ”

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ED Surge

MAY 31, 2022

Like tech stocks in general, edtech has taken a nosedive over the past six months or so. The news might lead you to think edtech’s future is marked by doom and gloom. It showed the industry, Batra says, that consumers have become agreeable to purchasing edtech. And how does this factor into your optimism for the edtech sector?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Scale Tutoring for the 1:1 Experience Scaled tutoring strategies can save teachers from needing to be in 30 places at once delivering 30 unique and personalized lessons.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

For businesses, artificial intelligence has proven immensely profitable, by some accounts even lifting the overall amount of funding flowing to edtech last year. But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

million , and the company has shed other assets—including its popular tutoring business, TutorMe, which it sold to GoGuardian for $55 million in May. That fits a pattern of universities reasserting control over functions previously outsourced to OPMs, says edtech analyst Matt Tower, a principal at Workshop Venture Partners.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. Kindergarten teachers at Sto-Rox transitioned from traditional assessments like DIBELS to EarlyBird at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.

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