Seattle-area edtech company DreamBox Learning acquired by Discovery Education DreamBox Learning, a Bellevue, Wash.-based company that sells education technology software to K-12 schools, announced Tuesday it was acquired by… Read More
Bill Gates: AI will be ‘as good a tutor as any human,’ but payoffs in education will take time Bill Gates says he’s bullish about the potential for artificial intelligence to transform education and learning — telling a crowd… Read More
DreamBox Learning hit by layoffs, but promises strategy to take on ‘troubling trends’ in education DreamBox Learning laid off an undisclosed number of employees this week, citing the need for a “realignment” at the Seattle-area… Read More
Podcast Lessons from the pandemic: Top STEM educators offer their insights on the future of learning The pandemic upended education in extraordinary ways, and shed new light on the social, economic and racial disparities in schools… Read More
Tech Moves: Facebook engineering lead joins gaming unicorn Playco; Bright.md names new CEO — Former Facebook Director of Engineering Calvin Grunewald has left the social media giant after nine years and joined Playco,… Read More
GeekWire Summit: Treat teachers as ‘learning engineers,’ and other insights on future of education Educators, policymakers, students and parents need to recognize the pandemic and remote learning as an impetus for meaningful change in… Read More
GeekWire Summit: Early-bird pricing ends Thursday, new speakers and sessions just added The GeekWire Summit is less than a month away. Do you have your tickets yet? Early-bird rates end Thursday for… Read More
GeekWire Awards 2019: Big Tech CEO of the Year finalists use leadership to fuel big growth Seattle is an evolving city, so it makes sense for the GeekWire Awards to evolve, too. That’s especially evident as… 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
