Industry Insights
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Teen Sports Betting: Can Game-Based Learning Help?
A generation ago, the average teenager’s first bet was a friendly poker game or a bracket pool. Today, it’s a few taps on a phone. Sports betting is now legal in most U.S. states, online platforms and prediction market trading operate around the clock, and marketing engineered for maximum appeal is landing directly in the…
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The Hidden Complexity Behind Ed Tech
Building Features Students Don’t Even Notice When students log into Fantasy Sports Math League for the first time, they’ll navigate the draft interface, scroll through their player statistics, and watch a football animate across their task tracker. If the design team has done their job well, none of these interactions will feel remarkable. Students will…
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Navigating the New EdTech Funding Reality
How innovators are adapting to a changing investment landscape The Funding Climate: Nervous but Navigating At EdTech Week 2025 at Columbia University, the elephant in the room wasn’t AI or student engagement—it was funding. The anxiety is real: ending ESSER funds, government shutdowns, and federal innovation funding cuts have created unprecedented uncertainty. But amidst the…
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A new era of AI tools: Reshaping Education at EdTech Week 2025
Insights from STEMPlayLabs time at EdTech Week 2025 at Columbia University Teachers Are Excited. They’re Also Over It. Walking through the halls of Columbia University during EdTech Week 2025, one thing became crystal clear: artificial intelligence – AI – has reached a turning point in education tools. Educators aren’t asking whether AI should be in…