Founders Parade – Martin McKay
Founder: Martin McKay, Co-founder and CEO Venture: TextHelp is a literacy and numeracy software development company, with Read & Write, eQuatio, BrowseAsloud, wriQ as the signature products. Accessibility is a key component and value of the company, with a focus on Text-to-speech and note taking solutions that reduce cognitive load for students. Bio: McKay has been described as a […]
Founders Parade: John Baker, Founder & CEO D2L Brightspace
Founder: John Baker, President and Chief Executive Officer Venture: D2L (Desire2Learn) Brightspace is a Learning Management System (LMS) platform used by K-12, higher education, government, and private corporations to deliver adaptable online learning. They are used worldwide with millions of learners. In addition to traditional LMS features of course management and evaluation, they have added new […]
Carl Wieman – PhET Interactive Simulations
Carl Wieman – Creator, Senior Advisor PhET Interactive Simulations https://phet.colorado.edu/ PhET Interactive Simulations is a non-profit open educational resource project that creates and hosts guided simulations. The venture mainly provides free STEM simulations and worksheets to go along with them for learners and educators. Over time, it has also become a platform for educators to […]
Market Projections: MIT Technology Review – ChatGPT and Education
ChatGPT, being so new, requires predictions to be made about how the tool will change industries and fields as a whole. This MIT review project that ChatGPT will become integrated into schools and will partner up with educational resources to provide multi-modal support. Heaven argues that based on current trends with AI, educators will need […]
Founders Parade: Josh Wardle, founder of Wordle
Wordle is a word puzzle game where the user must determine a 5-letter word based on clues from previous guesses. They have 6 chances to determine the correct word in order to be successful. Josh Wardle was working at Reddit as an artist and product manager when he first came up with the idea for […]
Founders Parade: Ben Stewart, creator of Blooket
Kahoot and Quizlet Live are both examples of tools that teachers use to spice up lessons through gamification. Most students love these as they can break up a lengthy or monotonous lesson! Let’s face it, our students’ attention spans can be extremely challenging to keep during the school day. Young entrepreneur Ben Stewart identified an […]
Pitch Pool: PasswordPocket
Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/atlancube/passwordpocket-your-personal-data-guardian?ref=discovery_category If you are anything like me, you have dozens of different accounts that require usernames and passwords. For me, the solution has been to have similar usernames and passwords across different platforms to ensure I do not forget login info. This is a terrible idea from a security perspective. PasswordPocket would solve that […]
Pitch Pool: Mote – Voice Recorded Feedback
Users of Google Classroom, Google Docs, and Google Slides can record voice comments and feedback with the Mote Google Chrome extension. Mote was created primarily to help teachers save time by giving them a quicker way to provide feedback to their pupils. Instead of typing out their thoughts, which can take a lot of time […]
Off-Grid Simulation App – Land Lab Simulator
The Land Lab Simulator is a powerful design app to help you rapidly build virtual off-grid systems blueprints for providing food, water, energy, sanitation, and shelter. This app will teach you how these systems work by allowing you to drag-and-drop real-life systems to provide for your needs. Every off-grid system in this app exists today (to purchase or […]
Pitch Pool: Cubibot the at home 3D printer for your counter
Cubibot is your choice for an at home 3D Printer that is compact but still brings with it the functionality of a full size machine. This is your home or small office 3D printer that is affordable and simple to use. Watch the pitch here… https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/99671519/cubibot-the-new-standard-of-modern-consumer-3d-pri?ref=discovery_most_funded&term=education