Last night General Assembly had a great meet up called “Talk Data to Me” and brought together very impressive data experts from Coursera, Google and Clever, in addition to GA’s very impressive moderator Vrushank Vora, an expert in deep and…

I’m presently helping a company execute a pilot program and progress from being unpaid to actually getting paid for their efforts in the next school year. The product is great and kids love it. Teachers love it. It has a…

Last week I went to an edSurge meetup in San Francisco titled “Do You Have What It Takes To Do An Edtech Startup?” The illustrious panel consisted of Tyler Bosmeny, CEO of Clever; Ben Levy, CEO of PlayPosit; and Rupa…

Last week I went to the EdSurge “Tech for Schools Summit” in Oakland, California. The purpose of this event was to connect edtech entrepreneurs with educators and facilitate deep dive discussions between the two. The word “rubric” came up often.…

I had the pleasure of going to the Silicon Valley Education Foundation and the Learning Innovation (iHub) Pitch Games at Google last night. The Learning Innovation Hub at SVEF connects EdTech entrepreneurs with educators to facilitate teacher and student feedback…

Teachers perform assessments with paper and pencil or more modern forms such as software designed for this purpose. Existing apps have led to greater strides in performing assessments, but many educators feel that continued better design and additional features could help…

At a recent EdSurge meet-up last month, the discussion was focused on mobile learning trends and the opportunities and challenges associated with these endeavors. The nugget gleaned from that evening was that education needs more mobile applications that help with…

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2014/12/10-online-learning-trends-watch-2015-infographic

High tech business development practices are entering the classroom!   Using Steve Blank’s lean methodology, the National Science Foundation announced the I-corp L program, (where the L stands for Learning) that will help educators learn how to get innovative ideas adopted by…

On May 15th, 2014  I am proud to report that my client Cashtivity won the Founder’s Institute award for “Best Australian Startup”. They are a K-12 educational software company that teaches kids how to start a business.