Know What's Happening in EdTech
Know What's Happening in EdTech
York St. John University has installed Laerdal Medical’s high‑fidelity childbirth simulator, Mama Anne, allowing midwifery students to practice deliveries on a robot that blinks, breathes, talks and actually gives birth. The move marks a shift toward immersive, risk‑free clinical training in health‑care education.
Someone built a free 7-week RAG curriculum on GitHub. And they're right — it's good. But, you'll need 1 more thing to get an AI/DS job in 2026:
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In this episode, John McDon interviews Simone Isaacs, Director of Customer Success, and Karina Schmitz, Global Marketing team member, from No Isolation about their AV1 telepresence robot. They explain how AV1 provides "warm technology" that gives absent students a physical...
🤖 Want insight into how students respond to AI Tutors? 🎙️ Chelsea Sterrett talks about what she has seen in her classroom. 💡 Her advice can help you prepare for your own AI journey. https://t.co/PoqTD2Iigo https://t.co/WRiltrmSdR
📖From The Borrowed Mind... "When we learn, we place ourselves onto a map of knowledge. In books, the connections between words and ideas are fixed and printed as static representations of knowledge packaged into accepted systems. The path is predetermined. You...
Pittsburgh Public Schools announced a week‑long move to remote instruction coinciding with the NFL Draft, citing heightened security concerns. The decision reflects broader anxiety over school safety, highlighted by recent extremist threats in other districts.
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Schools and districts are adopting simulation‑based training tools to close the gap between theory and classroom practice. BranchED’s AuthenTECH Practice (ATP) platform leverages large language models to create realistic student interactions without requiring VR hardware. Early pilots, including a 2019...
Free language learning tool in Google Translate. Sometimes embedding a useful 'learning' tool into massively used 1 billion user tool works. Practice feature in Google Translate is fascinating.... useful listening & role playing learning tool.... https://t.co/9WfcDRbDo6
NotebookLM unique in being 'usable'. It's not in its brilliance, but in bringing together a cluster of useful features to act on ANY input by teachers or learners . Shows the way forward. https://t.co/Hyh1zfm0Cc
Parents, teachers unions and activist groups are mobilizing against the growing presence of screens, AI tutors and social‑media‑style apps in K‑12 classrooms. At least 16 U.S. states have introduced bills to curb screen time, while Brazil and other nations roll...
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The Army National Guard is launching "Disasterville," a traveling virtual‑reality program that brings three ten‑minute disaster simulations—earthquake, flash flood and wildfire—to high school gymnasiums across the United States this spring. Participants work in teams of five, using VR headsets and...
🎧 NEW bonus episode of the Easy EdTech Podcast is now live. 🧠 I chat with @WillcottJulie to talk about emerging AI trends in education for 2026. 🤝 I’m excited to partner with @jotform to share practical insights educators can use right...
Akshat Prakash, 27, the former CTO of Apple’s Siri Web Answers team, resigned to focus full‑time on Camb.ai, an AI‑powered education platform he co‑founded with his father. The duo secured a $4 million seed round, underscoring growing investor appetite for AI‑driven...
MediKeeper announced today that it has incorporated health‑education material from the American Institute for Preventive Medicine into its wellness platform. The new library replaces static articles with videos, courses and interactive tools covering topics from nutrition to financial wellness, aiming...
Scholastic announced third‑quarter 2026 results with consolidated revenue of $329.1 million, a $56.1 million education segment, and $407 million free cash flow driven by a $400 million sale‑leaseback. While overall revenue slipped, the company narrowed its education‑segment loss, signaling steady demand for digital learning...
University of Chicago researchers partnered with Chicago Public Schools to test robot tutors in fourth‑grade SEL lessons. The experiment compared robots that used fictional, emotion‑laden dialogue with robots that spoke factually and admitted they had no feelings. Both robot groups...
UpGrad announced a term‑sheet to acquire Unacademy in an all‑stock transaction, marking the first major consolidation in India’s bruised edtech sector. Founder Ronnie Screwvala argues that the prevailing AI‑driven job‑loss panic is largely a marketing narrative, not a reality. UpGrad positions...
In a bonus episode of the Easy EdTech Podcast, host Monica Burns interviews STEM/AI education specialist Julie Willcott to outline the most consequential AI trends shaping K‑12 and higher‑education in 2026. The conversation highlights AI’s rapid embedding in everyday teaching,...
😖 Worried about your students not making progress on a playlist? You’re not alone—& there are also specific strategies we can use to ensure all students are making progress. 🙌 Learn more about the playlist model on my blog: https://t.co/ZwfhaMP1cK #edchat #k12 https://t.co/Fr7X2Yg43h
Healthcare hiring is accelerating, and medical assistants are among the fastest‑growing occupations. Traditional community‑college pathways cannot keep pace with the rising demand driven by an aging population, physician shortages, and cost pressures. Accredited online medical assistant programs now offer rigorous...
The traditional corporate LMS is losing relevance as engagement plummets to single‑digit levels without compliance pressure. Paris‑based startup Blify announced a €1.8 million pre‑seed round to launch an AI‑powered learning operating system that embeds training directly into Slack, Microsoft Teams and...
Utiva, an AI‑driven workforce platform, has been admitted to the Techstars accelerator, signaling its shift from pure talent training to providing end‑to‑end global hiring infrastructure. The company has already upskilled more than 200,000 professionals in 39 emerging‑market countries and partnered...
PhysicsWallah Limited has been served a ₹263.34 crore income‑tax demand for FY 2023‑24 and announced it will contest the order in court. The firm, which posted a 33% rise in quarterly profit, says the notice will not materially affect its operations as...
A RAND Corporation survey released in December 2025 found that AI‑assisted homework use among U.S. students rose to 62% and that 67% now believe the technology erodes critical‑thinking skills. The findings come as K‑12 teachers report 85% using AI for...
Mead School District’s AI Implementation Specialist Courtney Bock launched a four‑part professional development series to build AI literacy among teachers. Each 90‑minute session—covering AI fundamentals, ethics, classroom integration, and workflow automation—serves cohorts of about 25 educators and offers STEM clock...
The NHS is confronting a severe workforce crisis, with over 106,000 vacancies in early 2025, including 27,000 nursing posts. Traditional postgraduate training pulls clinicians away from clinical duties, worsening service gaps. Technology‑enabled, online postgraduate programmes allow health professionals to upskill...
Nick Potkalitsky released the teacher‑focused complement to his AI literacy series, offering two workshop designs—a 1.5‑hour introductory session and a 3‑hour deep‑dive—for mixed‑subject faculty. The release also includes six cross‑disciplinary sample lessons spanning grades 6‑12 in ELA, social studies, science...
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Minnesota's Rosemount‑Apple Valley‑Eagan school district (ISD 196) cancelled all classes for its 29,000 students on Tuesday after voicemail threats were discovered at 3:30 a.m. Law enforcement, now led by the FBI, is investigating the out‑of‑state calls. The district ordered staff to stay...
Qualiphi, an Egypt‑based AI career services platform, completed a six‑figure acquisition of Career Club from iCareer in the second half of 2025. The deal expands Qualiphi’s AI‑powered ecosystem across Egypt and the GCC, adding virtual career centre tools and strengthening...
Clinicians are overwhelmed by EHR documentation, eroding patient interaction and clinical teaching. AI‑driven scribes promise to offload clerical work, freeing preceptors to engage more directly with patients and students. The article argues that while AI is not a cure‑all, it...
Cornerstone OnDemand unveiled the Spring 2026 Evolution of Cornerstone Galaxy, adding an AI‑Powered Course Assistant and Adaptive Learning Agent. The assistive and agentic tools embed contextual intelligence into learning, letting employees ask questions in‑session and receive role‑specific content recommendations without extra...
🎮🌍 Genie 3 & the Rise of Playable Worlds AI is evolving—from generating content to creating interactive worlds you can explore. Not just watching… 👉 but playing, testing, and experiencing learning. 🎯 Why it matters: • Active learning > passive watching • Makes abstract concepts real •...
Google’s Gemini platform now offers Lyria 3, an AI music generator that produces 30‑second clips from short text prompts. Educators are experimenting with the tool to create catchy jingles that reinforce classroom concepts, though the output often sounds generic and lacks...
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Infrastructure launches IgniteAI Agent for Canvas, builds on @Amazon Bedrock https://t.co/0iOP4GmXpI Infrastructure, the company behind the Canvas learning management system (LMS) launched the IgniteAI Agent, which orchestrates and executes workflows for…
On March 18, 2026, Lumikai announced a $1.5 million seed investment in NPrep, an AI‑powered education platform for India’s nursing workforce. The round, also joined by All In Capital, Velo Partners, DSP Group Family Office and angel investor Viren Shetty, aims to scale NPrep’s...
Emoji Story Lab from Shana Ramin is a creative writing tool that generates randomized, school-safe emoji prompts to inspire students to brainstorm and write unique narrative adventures. #MACUL26 https://t.co/DPt1jpmmiF
On March 15, OpenAI hosted an invitation‑only Education Summit in San Francisco, drawing roughly 100 senior executives from universities across the United States, Europe and Asia. Attendees—including presidents, chancellors, provosts, CIOs and government officials—debated responsible AI deployment, governance frameworks, and...
On March 18, 2026, Ohio State University announced a partnership with central Ohio school districts to expand its AI literacy initiative, bringing K‑12 teachers and administrators to the Columbus campus for workshops on ethical and effective AI use. The effort,...
Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome announced this week a partnership with Google to embed artificial‑intelligence tools across its teaching, research and administrative functions, establishing a new Teaching & Learning Innovation Hub.
On March 18, 2026, Microsoft announced the launch of an AI for Good Lab in Montevideo, Uruguay, in partnership with the Uruguayan government. The lab, located at the LATU Innovation Park, is led by Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Microsoft’s Corporate...
MasterClass is promoting a tiered subscription model that starts at $10 per month for single‑user access and goes up to $20 per month for a Premium plan that supports up to six users. The platform offers more than 200 on‑demand...
Saylor Academy is now Saylor University. The Florida Department of Education has granted @saylordotorg university status—marking a major milestone in our mission to provide free, world-class higher education for all. https://t.co/SbimeofUkQ
Lingokids, a tablet‑based edutainment platform, is positioning itself as a pre‑Switch gateway for young gamers, offering Marvel‑themed activities and other licensed content. The service reaches roughly 20 million children each month, with 14‑17% encountering iconic characters for the first time within...
#AI is taking the enterprise world by storm. But how is it redefining learning systems? Find out what @docebo CEO, Alessio Artuffo, says as he joins me on this Talented Learning Show▶️ https://t.co/b2jXyx57is #LMS #OnlineLearning #eLearning https://t.co/MSW5z3WKu7
