Articles about edtech

Two-hour learning? AI-powered Alpha School lands in Seattle region

Alpha School, an AI-powered private school chain that has students complete core academics in two hours a day, plans to open a campus in Kirkland this fall and will run summer programs on Microsoft’s Redmond campus. Read More

New startup Wild Zebra brings AI tutor to thousands of students, raises $2M for wider rollout

A new Seattle startup is building a personal AI tutor that doesn’t just give the answer but guides students through… Read More

Microsoft vets lead secretive education startup using generative AI to help students learn

Two decades after selling their startup to Microsoft, Eran Megiddo and Liviu Asnash are going back to their entrepreneurial roots.… Read More

Business is booming: Husband-and-wife ed-tech startup Boom Learning takes off during pandemic

It’s been a rocky road for education the past couple years as schools, teachers, students and parents all navigate the… Read More

Edtech startup Bamboo Learning raises cash from ex-Amazon VPs and new ‘Day One Syndicate’

The news: Bamboo Learning, which makes apps to help kids learn math and reading, launched its first iOS app and… Read More

GeekWire Awards 2021: Meet the remarkable STEM educators who are inspiring next-gen geeks

Over the years, GeekWire has highlighted so many of the tireless folks who are nurturing the next generation of geeks.… Read More

Seattle tutoring app founders learn to harness TikTok to build a huge base of potential users

The young founders of Seattle-based tutoring app Kadama have been learning for years how to launch and grow a startup,… Read More

What is education actually worth? AstrumU raises $7.6M to help graduates and employers find out

A college grad who studied philosophy might make a great finance exec. A liberal arts major could excel as a… Read More

Panopto CEO sees video platform shift from useful technology to essential tool for remote learning

In 1998, Eric Burns was an undergraduate with a summer job working for the dean of computer science at Carnegie… Read More

XPRIZE’s Code Games challenge gives kids an opportunity to create games for good

XPRIZE’s latest program to incentivize innovation is going after a new demographic: young people between the ages of 10 and… Read More

Seattle-area school district closes due to COVID-19, will move 23K students to online learning

Online learning will be put to the test for a Seattle area school district as it shuts down for two… Read More

Inspired by the Amazon Dash button, this startup is using tech to help special needs students

Nikody Keating launched mytaptrack because his first-grade son needed help. Keating’s son has autism and their family and educators were… Read More

Amazon teams with Seattle schools to inspire underserved students to pursue STEM and robotics

It was already pajama day in Sae Kang’s third grade class at John Muir Elementary School in Seattle on Tuesday.… Read More

Elon Musk with XPRIZE executives and winners

Backed by Elon Musk, Global Learning XPRIZE awards $10M to two tech teams

Two educational companies shared the $10 million top award in the Global Learning XPRIZE, a contest backed by Elon Musk,… Read More

Analysis: Microsoft, Google, Apple — why is Amazon the lagging tech giant in the classroom?

Is Amazon a sleeping giant of education technology? Or one of its biggest, underreported failures? Those are questions to which… Read More

Lumen Learning raises more cash, aims to replace traditional textbooks with digital ‘open educational resources’

Portland, Ore.-based startup Lumen Learning has reeled in more investment to grow its open digital education course material platform. The company… Read More

As learning technologies enter a ‘heady place,’ DreamBox CEO thinks skepticism was justified

Being a little late out of the gate with new tech may not be a bad thing when you’re dealing… Read More

What Amazon and Netflix can teach us about learning, according to DreamBox Learning CEO

Many of the technologies we use every day are constantly learning from us. We train Netflix in what genres of… Read More

Seattle education startup Actively Learn acquired by N.J.-based Achieve3000, terms undisclosed

A modestly sized Seattle startup is being bought by an established education technology company that says it reaches nearly 3… Read More

Amazon Alexa Fund invests in Bamboo Learning as startup introduces screen-friendly Alexa math skill

Seattle education startup Bamboo Learning is previewing its second Alexa skill at the same time it’s announcing an investment from… Read More

Microsoft launches ‘groundbreaking’ Flagship School initiative with 17 schools globally

Microsoft is deepening its efforts in education by literally getting in on the ground floor. On Tuesday, it launched its… Read More

Teachers and parents want more help with school technology, Microsoft and DreamBox surveys find

Two different surveys, released by Microsoft and DreamBox Learning, find both parents and teachers would like to see more support… Read More

‘Minecraft: Education Edition’ comes to iPad, as education features expand to mainstream version of game

Just in time for back-to-school, “Minecraft: Education Edition” is coming to Apple’s iPad. And also for the first time, a… Read More

TLDR: MLB commentary with robots, flying cars, facial recognition in schools

Today’s featured stories MLB partners with Amazon Web Services to predict pitches and analyze live games with robots Agent 007… Read More

From virtual reality to ebooks, the future of digital media in schools is a total toss-up

The future of content in education is … robots? Well, not really. But it was easy to get that impression… Read More

Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and tech’s battle for the hearts and classrooms of teachers

If the ISTE 2018 exhibit hall was a high school, then Google and Microsoft were the enthusiastically competitive drama and… Read More

Former Amazon devices executive Ian Freed launches Bamboo Music skill for Alexa

Kids and their parents are getting a new way to use Amazon Echo devices for learning about music. And it’s… Read More

Microsoft buys edtech startup Flipgrid and makes the video discussion tool free for all schools

Microsoft has acquired education technology startup Flipgrid, Inc., and immediately announced that the subscription social learning platform will be free… Read More

Tablets or textbooks? Elementary students take on one of the great tech debates of our time

In the ongoing discussion about whether tablets or textbooks are better for students, the kids have a lot to contribute.… Read More

Seattle Public Library and UW awarded $353K federal grant to help kids co-design digital activities

The Seattle Public Library and University of Washington Information School will work together to teach other libraries how to create… Read More