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Edtech Companies Need to Engage Families Now

Digital Promise

How can edtech shift from a focus on district administrators and classroom educators to better understand families’ needs during and after the COVID-19 pandemic? In a recent EdWeek Market Brief webinar , presenters discussed survey and interview findings regarding parents and caregivers’ edtech needs at this time.

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Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

Edsurge

It’s historic that the law now clearly signals the way for public institutions to measure digital accessibility, says Glenda Sims, the chief information accessibility officer for Deque Systems, a company focused on digital accessibility. For private edtech companies, it’s slightly more complicated.

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Lego’s Parent Company Acquires Edtech Firm BrainPOP

Edsurge

The company that owns Lego is diving headlong into K-12 education’s switch to digital. Kirkbi A/S, the private investment and holding company that owns a controlling stake in Lego, acquired the video animation company BrainPOP for $875 million. The deal was announced Tuesday.

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Google Discreetly Acquires Edtech Analytics Company BrightBytes

Edsurge

Google has silently acquired a widely-used K-12 data and analytics company. BrightBytes has a powerful platform that can securely integrate various data sources effectively and efficiently to provide useful visualizations and real time data for education leaders,” a spokesperson for Google said in the company's email to EdSurge.

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2021 Trends in College Career and Employment Planning

In this second annual report, part of the BestColleges.com research series, 624 business leaders shared how their companies and organizations currently recruit and hire college students from both online and campus-based programs.

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Dear EdTech Companies, We Need To Talk. Sadly, EdTech Misunderstands the Best Way to Gain Saturation in the Classroom

TeacherCast

The post Dear EdTech Companies, We Need To Talk. Sadly, EdTech Misunderstands the Best Way to Gain Saturation in the Classroom appeared first on TeacherCast Educational Network. You know your goal is to get it in the hands of teachers and have them inspire the world using it so you can begin to build saturation in the market.

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How This EdTech Company Creates Unique Personalized Learning Experiences in Texas

EdNews Daily

In this interview, we talk about the new Science program, the content writers, our partnerships, and how we support Science and Multilingual Learners in Texas and throughout the country. […] The post How This EdTech Company Creates Unique Personalized Learning Experiences in Texas first appeared on EdNews Daily.