Articles about education technology

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

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

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

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

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

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

Project Unicorn signs first companies to help schools handle the hairball of edtech data

The rise of education technology in schools has also expanded one of edtech’s biggest hairballs: exchanging school, teacher and student… Read More

For investors, the future of education technology is now the workplace

SAN DIEGO — After several years of waiting for the K-12 market to grow faster, and a couple of years… Read More

Analysis: After Amazon’s TenMarks shuts down, what then for K-12 schools and Amazon?

The sudden, relatively quiet notice late last week that Amazon would shutter its TenMarks business and end its TenMarks Math… Read More

Amazon to close TenMarks online education service after 2018-19 school year

Amazon will close its TenMarks online math and writing learning service after the 2018-2019 school year, the latest surprise twist… Read More

Apple unveils $299 iPad for schools and free education apps in bid to regain its K-12 lead

It’s on, Google. You too, Microsoft. That might be the best way to sum up Apple’s big reveal of how… Read More

Can Apple return to the head of the class? Tech giant to reveal new education plans after long slide

One-time education technology leader Apple is now a distant third in new computing device shipments to K-12 schools in the… Read More

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Geared Up Podcast: Apple tries to get smarter in schools, and Microsoft marches on with Always-Connected PCs

Apple is planning to hold a mysterious education event next week, hosted at a high school in Chicago. The company… Read More

What makes Pittsburgh different as an edtech hub? Collaboration — and Mister Rogers

Ask those in Pittsburgh’s thriving education technology community what makes the city different from other edtech hubs such as Silicon… Read More

Microsoft apps to be embedded into edtech powerhouse PowerSchool’s ‘Unified Classroom’

Microsoft is making yet another push into the classroom. But this time, it’s using the buddy system, today announcing a… Read More

Global education technology investment hits record $9.5B, but K-20 is only 21% of the total

Seattle-area market research firm Metaari has released its annual tally of global edtech investment, and the numbers are eye-popping. Across… Read More

Analysis: Education technology startup funding rebounds, but what is ‘edtech’?

Education technology is heating up again. Yet edtech’s most fervent promoters may be masking the industry’s breadth by lumping everything… Read More

As Microsoft renews push into the classroom, educators give Google highest marks in new study

Microsoft made a big splash last week when it announced a new education-oriented operating system, Windows 10 S, and debuted… Read More

Seattle education technology company Ravenna Solutions acquired by Education Brands

Ravenna Solutions, a Seattle-based provider of enrollment management software for K-12 private schools has been acquired by Education Brands, which… Read More

Seattle startup Ranku acquired by education publishing giant John Wiley & Sons

Ranku, a Seattle-based startup that helps online degree programs reach more students, announced today that it has been acquired for an… Read More

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Education technology: Your cheat sheet to 10 fads, trends, and WTFs

It’s been a most-frenzied spring of conferences in the new hotbed of startup and investor tech opportunity, education technology. And… Read More

March Madness becomes ‘Math Madness’ for Amazon’s edtech company

March as “Math Madness?” No, it’s not an alternate calendar for those who tend more toward nerd than jock. Today TenMarks,… Read More

Gates-backed inBloom winding down after non-profit faces concerns over privacy

InBloom, which was backed by $100 million from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and others, is closing up shop after… Read More

Bill Gates at SXSWedu: The future of education is data

If there was a single nerdy subtext that Bill Gates brought to his closing keynote at the SXSWedu conference in… Read More

The future of education: What entrepreneurs need to know about entering the e-learning space

The education space is a promising field that has garnered tons of investor attention. The numbers don’t lie: education technology raised… Read More