Named after the hundred-eyed watchman of Greek myth, Argus watches the education landscape: spotting new opportunities, pressure-testing the ventures we're building, and tracing every read back to the real-world signals behind it.
The evidence library: the raw signals the pipeline is watching across the education ecosystem. Every idea is built from these.
MORE THAN A DECADE AGO, Queens teacher Nicole Radosti Pipia’s fifth- and sixth-grade students seemed to love reading novels in school. “The Giver” by Lois Lowry was prized for its mystery. “Wonder” by R.J. Palacio taught them about kindness and acceptance. “Freak the Mighty” by Rodman Philbrick showed them the power of friendship. Now, she said, they don’t read any. Instead, students often spend class time reading excerpts and short stories to better prepare them for the sorts of questions they’d encounter on standardized exams. The demands of her school’s reading program leave no room to study novels, the English teacher said. “We’re told that we cannot deviate from the program, and if you have to do the program, there’s literally no time,” Pipia said. Another New York City middle school teacher, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation, said her school taught novels before the pandemic. Now, “it can be done, but not with the constraints placed on us as teachers,” she
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One humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, representatives from Microsoft were waiting as some 200 teachers trooped into a conference hall in downtown Manhattan. The educators were there for a workshop on the school technology of the moment: artificial intelligence chatbots. The Microsoft team gave a presentation on their Copilot chatbot and asked the teachers to practice using it for tasks like generating emails to parents and customizing lesson plans. Microsoft instructors also screened an A.I. explainer video that their Minecraft Education division had produced for children. The animated clip, based on the company’s blockbuster world-building game, featured a cheerful narrator and a cute Minecraft duck. Even if some schoolchildren weren’t old enough to use A.I., one of the Microsoft workshop leaders told the teachers in attendance, at least they could start learning about it. As a journalist covering technology in schools, I had observed similar workshops for teachers and students t
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Any elementary or middle school Gifted, AIG, or Social Studies teachers interested in collaborating in a Mystery Classroom? This engaging activity connects classrooms through a video platform like Google Meet or Zoom for a fun game that involves geography skills and critical thinking: student participants take turns asking yes-or-no questions to determine the competitor classroom's state. It's a lot of fun! I have led professional development sessions on this topic, participating teachers love the instructional value, students are engaged in exciting, authentic collaboration, and former students often tell me it's something they remember fondly. Importantly, students discover they have lots in common with their peers from other places in the country and world. Let me know the grade level and we'll set up a time. submitted by /u/Appropriate_Chain145 [link] [comments]
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We’re trying to improve how we handle employee training, and I’m realizing that choosing an LMS is harder than I expected. I don’t care about having a huge list of features. I’m more interested in what makes an LMS easy for employees and manageable for the people running the training. For those who have used an LMS for employee training, what being most important? Was it ease of use, simple reporting, integrations, mobile access, reminders, or something else? Would be great to hear what worked well in real use, and what looked useful at first but turned out not to matter much. submitted by /u/Paloma_Elsesser [link] [comments]
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When a kid falls behind in reading, parents panic faster than with almost any other subject. They wonder if they missed something, if testing is needed, if their child will ever catch up. But most reading gaps close with consistent daily practice, not dramatic interventions. What parents actually need isn't another adaptive algorithm or more engagement metrics. They need to see the specific skill gaps in plain language, so they stop guessing and start knowing where to focus. Mastery percentages per skill area, not time-on-platform. The shift from anxious to informed changes how a parent shows up every morning. What I'm wondering: do the reading tools you've built or used actually surface skill-level gaps in a way parents can act on? Or is it still mostly completion rates and minutes spent? Feels like there's a real gap between what gets built and what actually reduces parent anxiety. submitted by /u/PrestigiousChip5172 [link] [comments]
edtech is oversaturated. because we are looking at the wrong aspects, big ass corporations try to sell medicine, not a cure. submitted by /u/Temporary-Truth2159 [link] [comments]
Hey everyone, I’ve been evaluating various educational VR solutions for our school, but looking through current offerings, almost everything seems to fall into two traps: either it’s an overly complex MDM/setup nightmare for teachers, or it’s just a 10-minute novelty experience with very little curricular depth. For those managing EdTech deployments or teaching with VR: Has any specific software/hardware workflow actually proven sustainable in a standard classroom? How are you handling MDM, teacher orchestration, and battery/maintenance overhead? Or has VR mostly ended up sitting in storage after the initial hype? submitted by /u/VictoryCharacter4631 [link] [comments]
Keep seeing his on client projects and it just kills me everytime, free preview video or a paid course model for like 209 bucks to the customer - unlisted YouTube embed, internal onboarding videos. With actual IP in them - ofc just airing in a public cloud bucket with signed URL that never expires. I mean I get it, embedding is free, it’s quick and nobody on the team want the that “actually we need DRM” guy in a meeting, but I’ve watched like 3 different founders find out that “hosted somewhere” doesn’t acc mean “protected “ - one had about 40K paid cohort’s vids ripped and re uploaded within a within a week of launch, another couldn’t get watch-time data past views cause their host didn’t track anything deeper, so they had no idea 80% of ppl dropped off in minute or two of every lesson. The thing I’m using is fee marketing clips embed anywhere, doesn’t matter - anything paid or gated, it needs actual DRM and expiring links, not just an unlisted setting, also anything you need retentio
I’m curious about something and would really appreciate answers from teachers here. When you need a worksheet, lesson idea, activity, presentation, assessment, etc., what do you actually do? Do you: - Search Google? - Look through Facebook groups? - Search Pinterest? - Ask colleagues? - Reuse things you've already made? - Use AI? - Some combination of all of these? And what bothers you most about the process? I’m asking because I’m a teacher too, and I’ve been experimenting with a small project called TeacHub based on this problem. But honestly, I'm not sure yet whether I'm solving a problem that teachers actually have, or just something that I personally find annoying. So rather than asking people to use it or telling everyone about its features, I'd much rather hear from actual teachers first. What does your current process look like, and what would you change about it if you could? If anyone is interested in seeing what I've been experimenting with here is it : https://teachub.gt.tc
I'd like a platform where each student has access to a private folder where I can share lesson PDFs after each session, while also allowing me to see all of my students' folders. Each student should only be able to access their own folder and not those of other students. I was thinking about using a simple Google Drive, but perhaps Moodle would be more appropriate for this? Many thanks! submitted by /u/Nearby-Poet-3527 [link] [comments]
Our school is using Subject AI for 7-12 virtual school now that our area is allowing for ISD's to offer online school options. I would like to hear the good, bad and ugly from those with experience with it. Previous posts that pulled up didn't have much in the way of replies ... So I'm hoping that with a little bit of time there are more folks with experience they are willing to share. Are they just that new that this is the first year they are getting more use?: i tried a couple other communities before the school year started but didn't get much in the way of replies then. submitted by /u/taz1113 [link] [comments]
So I've been using peardeck for about three years and I really love it. I pay for it out-of-pocket and I absolutely think it is a game changer. For whatever reason my district blocked it. Maybe it's Google suites security or some hypervigilance maneuver on their part. But I've already spent my money on my subscription this year and when I ask them to unblock it, they don't really understand how useful it is. Unfortunately, I'm one of the few people who actually use it in my district because no one else is willing to pay for it and no one else has the skills to make it work and be effective in a classroom. But it's very disheartening because now I have to go through all of my slides shows which amount to about 150 slides shows and make them low-tech and less fun. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother. They used to pay for Nearpod, but they stopped paying for it and I really hate Nearpod. Starting to hate everyone in the technology side because they're working against us and not with us.
This New York Times article (gift link, free to read and share) reports on the enabling of A.I. features for K12 students with access to Gemini via its popular Classroom app. While the AI industry overall is pressing to expand into K12 education, some parents and schools leaders are resisting, concerned about the risks to privacy and critical thinking abilities. What do you think? submitted by /u/TechandLearning [link] [comments]
If a student asks for the answer to a homework question, should the AI give it? No one can guarantee understanding, but the task gets complete. Doesn't this defy the whole point of education and building fundamentals? Curious how people actually building AI/edtech products are thinking about this. submitted by /u/art3mis_8 [link] [comments]
Imagine signing up for what you think is a $16 a month learning trial only to wake up to a sudden $218 charge on your card. That exact nightmare happened to me with Brilliant.org. The free trial signup page made it look free 30 days experience, after the first month a regular monthly plan. But when my free trial ended my card got slapped with an $218 annual fee. Panicked I logged in immediately to cancel. But their website trapped me in an endless glitch loop. The cancellation page literally would not work. I messaged support within 24 hours explaining their own site broke. They did not care. They hid behind robotic script templates claiming payments are non refundable and only offered a partial refund. I felt so cheated and helpless. submitted by /u/Famous_Edge2664 [link] [comments]
I'm interviewing for a role right now as an enrollment advisor. It's a high volume of sales calls, all warm leads though no cold calling, with approximately 100 calls a day. Does anyone do this currently? How is it? I imagine over time it becomes easier and more mindless since you're basically pitching the same things over and over again. I'm trying to break into ed tech as I finish my degree and am looking for opportunities to grow. I'm okay if I hate it for a year or two if it means it'll open doors for me in the long run. Role is at podium education. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/Substantial-Log4876 [link] [comments]
For designers working towards ai + edtech, how is the market? Flint, Magicschool etc. What's the market like? submitted by /u/art3mis_8 [link] [comments]
I’ll be honest, I’m probably a bit behind on all these AI tools, but I’ve been hearing other teachers talk about using them for slides and I feel like I should probably start looking into it. Right now I still build everything manually and it just takes way more time than it probably should. I’m just curious what people are actually using that can take basic lesson content and turn it into decent slides without too much effort. submitted by /u/WeekendKindly4037 [link] [comments]
Looking for some honest takes on where video learning is heading. I’m working on an engine where the core idea is simulative video learning . Basically, you input what you're trying to learn, and it generates a video simulation tailored to that concept- allowing you to visually see how variables change, how systems interact, or how complex ideas play out in real time. Do you guys think simulative video is actually the logical next step for learning, or do people just prefer standard video/text explanations? Would love to know if this is a real pain point or if current tools are good enough. submitted by /u/Sunshine_foryou [link] [comments]
Open access book - found it posted to Stephen Downes site: https://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm submitted by /u/mybrotherhasabbgun [link] [comments]
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I feel like it’s more infrastructure stuff and not educational. I think that’s where one of the best values for technology is, the admin piece. But is that still considered EdTech? submitted by /u/journe3y [link] [comments]
I used to use Jam Board, and it was pretty good for groups of students to make a public question board that didn’t clutter my classroom and drop post-it confetti everywhere. I’ve looked into Figma ( way too complex for what I need) and the post-it app (can multiple people even collaborate on it?) and Miro (looking for a free option). Does anyone know of a simple, sticky note style option that will allow students to post questions to a communal board for free? I need to create “driving questions boards” for each of my 4 units, and this is a way of collecting topics that students want to explore and keep track of things we have answered during each unit. submitted by /u/Pisaster_giganteus [link] [comments]
My district just dropped a ridiculous amount of funding on a new high school financial literacy suite. I finally got my admin login today to check it out before deployment It is literally just locked pdfs and multiple choice quizzes from like 2012. No interactive elements, just "click next to continue" compliance garbage. Students don't learn real world skills by staring at a wall of text about index funds. I showed some kids a basic trading game on the smartboard last week just to demonstrate market volatility and they were instantly hooked, asking actual smart questions about risk and supply/demand Why is it that simple apps can build better experiential learning than enterprise edtech companies charging $20k a year? It feels like we are just buying student tracking dashboards at this point, not actual learning tools. so depressing man submitted by /u/Enlitenkanin [link] [comments]
Why does it feel like, similar to video game companies ,the future of edtech is not in huge companies but small boutique firms with extremely specialized capabilities? I feel like we are going to see a balkanization of edtech firms which will coalesce into a sort of union of firms. Eventually we will have companies again. I think the best thing that edtech firms can do is teach teachers how to make products using ai for their classrooms. Eventually products will lead the pack then go from there. submitted by /u/Visual-Reserve-2800 [link] [comments]
I'm not actually a CS student. I switch from CS to EE because of the AI hype a couple of years ago. Jensen Huang scared me away from that major. The layoffs and reddit posts talking about having to do 5000 apps didn't help either. I enjoy my engineering classes and learning more about technology but I find myself gravitating towards web development projects rather than microcontroller projects. And most of my projects revolve around educational tools. I'm a part time student and full time pharmacy technician and most of my projects revolve around teaching different aspects of my job. So I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to specialize in this field? Is it safe from AI? Does it pay well? Edit: thanks for the responses. It seems there isn't really much to specialize in as far as the tech is concerned. It's a field that's better suited to teachers who learned a little bit of code or a software engineer + teacher partnership. Something I can do as a hobby and for my portfolio but mos
Since the COPPA updates came out, I've been running some tests on AI privacy policies for kids' apps, and it feels like a ton of companies are not complaint. Parental consent logs, proving deletion for regulators, it all seems like an absolute nightmare to build internally. For those of you working or building in AI in education / kids' entertainment, how are you handling this? Did you build retention timers and deletion logs in house or is there a API or something out there that actually handles this? submitted by /u/Impressive-Club9370 [link] [comments]
This New York Times article (gift link, free to read and share) explores the unfavorable reaction that some American parents have to the increasing use of mobile devices and apps in K12 education - starting in kindergarten at times. Their concerns have become more urgent with the rapid advance of artificial intelligence—seemingly now present in nearly all education software, as well as some hardware. Clearly some edtech offers benefits that analog simply can't- e.g., real-time feedback and lesson customization. At the same time, parents are concerned about gamification of learning apps, suggesting that this feature may short-circuit intrinsic motivation to learn. It's a question of balance, perhaps, between analog and digital methods, as well as how thoughfully any given tech is integrated into the curriculum. submitted by /u/TechandLearning [link] [comments]
"AI-powered" has become the default marketing phrase in education. But beyond the buzzword, which AI features have actually made teachers' jobs easier? Examples might include: Automated grading Personalized learning paths Lesson planning assistance Student performance insights Parent communication Which features delivered measurable value, and which were mostly marketing? submitted by /u/raziuddinmohammed [link] [comments]
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Just curious if anyone here is a member of 1EdTech ( www.1edtech.org ), and if so, if you feel that it's a worthwhile expense. (Or, if you're not a member, I'd be interested in knowing why you didn't join.) My organization (nonprofit) inquired about membership and their dues seem on the high side for a trade association - so high that we wonder how some of their members, especially school districts and colleges, get value out of it - but it does seem like they really want organizations to pay at their contributing rates to participate meaningfully in their standards setting work. submitted by /u/big_promise [link] [comments]
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My company uses Cornerstone LMS for employees and are now being forced to switch our content over to their new AI LXP. They have given us "demos" but honestly left us asking more questions than answered. Could anyone tell me what their experience was like whether it be using the LXP on the back end or using it as a user? Any insight or experience will be helpful, thanks! submitted by /u/connorbroncos [link] [comments]
Sorry if this post doesn't belong here. As an elder brother in university who has a sibling currently attending K-6, my parents struggle to know where to help since they lack the knowledge of where he currently stands. I don't think teachers have the time or capacity to organize personalized 1:1 conversations with each family, weekly, even monthly, on top of the already tiresome lesson planning, teaching, and grading. The most my parents see is letter grades and numbers -- something that is not of much help if a child is truly struggling (especially when it's with specific concepts or material). Then the question arises: what current methods are used by teachers, if any, to give adaptive/evolving/personalized suggestions or insight on a consistent basis (say weekly, or even daily)? I personally believe transparency is important to the success of children in education, and I'm really curious as to how it's approached today. Is there any technology or product that is being used? Or at le
i've got a client presentation due in a couple of weeks and figured this would be a good excuse to finally try something besides powerpoint. i don't make presentations every day, but when i do, i always feel like i'm spending forever adjusting fonts, spacing, and layouts instead of focusing on the actual content. what presentation software has worked well for you? looking for powerpoint alternatives before i start my next project i've got a client presentation due in a couple of weeks and figured this would be a good excuse to finally try something besides powerpoint. i don't make presentations every day, but when i do, i always feel like i'm spending forever adjusting fonts, spacing, and layouts instead of focusing on the actual content. what presentation software has worked well for you? Update: Thanks for all the recs. the tools that were mentioned the most over the past week with the same client presentation, and it was actually really helpful seeing how each one handled the exact
Not "here's how to use chatgpt" content. Actual literacy. I've been putting together thoughts on this and want to see what educators and practitioners think is essential. My working framework is that AI literacy at this level needs to cover at least four areas. First, conceptual understanding: what is machine learning, how does training data shape outputs, what does a model actually "know." Second, critical evaluation: how to assess AI outputs for accuracy, bias, and hallucination. Third, ethical dimensions: who owns AI outputs, what are the environmental costs, who benefits and who doesn't. Fourth, practical use with judgment: prompting strategies, when to use AI vs. not, how to work with it as a collaborator rather than an authority. Most "AI curriculum" I've seen hits maybe one of these. A lot of it is just glorified chatgpt tutorials. Students who come out of school actually prepared are going to be the ones who were taught to interrogate these tools, not just use them. Everyone el
Hello! I am going to be hosting a series of synchronous webinars via Zoom, and I am looking for a platform to build a resource and communications hub for the series. Folks have registered and paid through my website, so I just need a place for participants access and download files (~10 hours of video; documents and slides), and to post and respond to questions/comments. At this point, I'm not interested in using the platform itself to monetize/grow my business, and I'm not interested in AI anything. My website is on Squarespace, so if there are options for using integrations/extensions (e.g., Disqus) to have the hub as part of my site, I am open to that! Thank you for any suggestions! submitted by /u/Jennie_and_the_Betts [link] [comments]
I’m just starting the process and one of the first modules is on Professional Learning Communities (PLN). Anyone else here go through the process? Are there some other communities on Reddit that might be useful? submitted by /u/ForsakenHelp3279 [link] [comments]
genuine q. i tutor math in india and every other parent msgs me mid-term like "whats the progress" and i got nothing except "they did chapter 5" lol. tried google forms but making questions takes longer than the class itself. and the kid needs to download some app? no app should have my students details. whats the actual workflow ppl use here? or do tutors just accept that parent churn is part of the game? not selling anything btw just tired of losing students bc i cant show value between sessions. If some apps good wants to know, share please. submitted by /u/dingmsg [link] [comments]
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I graduated from HGSE’s masters program in ed tech in 2016. It was such a hopeful time. Lots of new companies. Lots of VC money floating around. Worked at an Ed tech startup, got funding to launch a community makerspace in a low income area, and did product design consulting on several STEM/creative toy kits. Spent 2020-2024 running a technical ed program for a gun violence intervention nonprofit. And over the last two years I’ve been running a similar program at a smaller nonprofit. I know the reality of the job market right now, but god damn, Ed tech seems to have been gutted hard. I’m trying to see if this relentless focus on getting AI features into everything Ed tech is actually just an opportunity to do the opposite. Tools that leverage all the aspects of a product that AI integration sort of ruins or dumbs down. Anyone else feeling this way? I feel late to this party. submitted by /u/framedposters [link] [comments]
I'm mostly a lurker here because I work in ed tech and don't really enjoy talking about it for fun. HOWEVER. Because it is summertime in the US and many teachers wishing to be ex teachers are on the hunt for a new path, I thought I'd share this one VERY IMPORTANT piece of ed tech job search information, inspired by many questions in this sub. Ready? Just because an ed tech company is HIRING it does not mean that ed tech company is GROWING. I work in ed tech. For one of the larger, more well known companies. We are hiring like crazy right now. Not because we are growing; at best, we are stagnating and hanging on for dear life. No. We are hiring like crazy--across departments--because so many people quit this spring when they restructured AGAIN, cut pay and increased workload. So I beg of you--if you're a teacher looking to transition out of the classroom and you think you've found the solution? First--the solution is almost certainly NOT ed tech. I say this as someone on the inside. But
I've seen former employees posting on Linkedin about SchoolAI restructuring and layoffs. This follows the MagicSchool layoffs a couple weeks ago. Expect all K-12 AI focused businesses to cut staff significantly in the next few months. There isn't enough budget or demand from district customers when Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI give away AI products for free. submitted by /u/maisonchic [link] [comments]
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Hello! I don't know if this is the correct place to post this, but I think it may be a good idea to start here. Around this time last year, I accepted a job at a robotics EdTech startup called Moonpreneur. My job was to run in-person robotics workshops for them, for kids. The issue: Moonpreneur has a history of being VERY scammy. This reddit post describes some of their escapades. They seem to switch events from in-person to online, spam attendees, and so on: https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1e46m12/moonprenuer/ Despite reading these reviews, I decided to take the job; I assumed that they were new, and just maybe a little poorly run. I understand that this was a foolish decision. Ultimately, I wanted to detail my experiences with them here in order to inform other people. The good: Moonpreneur DOES indeed host in-person robotics workshops. I didn't see any of the whole 'switching to online' thing that many users talk about. They mentioned online events, but aside from that, e