{"id":88767,"date":"2023-09-20T10:46:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=88767"},"modified":"2023-09-20T10:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:46:13","slug":"why-shaquille-oneal-led-edtech-startup-edsomas-2-5m-seed-round-other-ai-related-items-in-our-learning-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/09\/20\/why-shaquille-oneal-led-edtech-startup-edsomas-2-5m-seed-round-other-ai-related-items-in-our-learning-ecosystems\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Shaquille O\u2019Neal led edtech startup Edsoma\u2019s $2.5M seed round&#8221; + other AI-related items in our learning ecosystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/09\/19\/why-shaquille-oneal-led-edtech-startup-edsomas-2-5m-seed-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Why Shaquille O\u2019Neal led edtech startup Edsoma\u2019s $2.5M seed round <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from techcrunch.com by Kirsten Korosec; via GSV<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Edsoma is an app that uses an AI reading assistant to help people learn or improve their reading and communication.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nFor now, the company is targeting users in grades kindergarten to fourth grade based on the content that it has today. Wallgren noted that the Edsoma\u2019s technology will work right through into university and he has ambitions to become the No. 1 literacy resource in the United States.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/09\/19\/outschool-launches-an-ai-powered-tool-to-help-teachers-write-progress-reports\/\"><strong>Outschool launches an AI-powered tool to help teachers write progress reports<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from techcrunch.com by Lauren Forristal; via GSV<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Outschool, the online learning platform that offers kid-friendly academic and interest-based classes, announced today the launch of its AI Teaching Assistant, a tool for tutors to generate progress reports for their students. The platform \u2014 mainly popular for its small group class offerings \u2014 also revealed that it\u2019s venturing into one-on-one tutoring, putting it in direct competition with companies like Varsity Tutors, Tutor.com and Preply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Shaquille O\u2019Neal led edtech startup Edsoma\u2019s $2.5M seed round &#8212; from techcrunch.com by Kirsten Korosec; via GSV Edsoma is an app that uses an AI reading assistant to help people learn or improve their reading and communication. &#8230; For now, the company is targeting users in grades kindergarten to fourth grade based on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,286,32,210,237,533,345,195,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-digital-learning","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-entrepreneurship","category-experimentation","category-reading","category-tools","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88770,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88767\/revisions\/88770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}