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- Education Technology, or ed-tech, is experiencing a resurgence thanks to a new crop of startups building powerful tools for the millions of teachers in classrooms.
- Some of these startups are graduates of prestigious Silicon Valley startup programs like Y Combinator. or have won the backing of the Chan Zuckerberg initiative.
- Business Insider spoke with the growing field of "teacher tech" startups to learn why designing with teachers in mind is crucial to the next wave of edtech innovation.
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After disrupting taxis and hotels, Silicon Valley set its sights on the classroom.
On Tuesday, a pension fund in Canada announced a new investment group focused solely on startups creating tecj for teachers. Although the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan hasn't' yet set an allocation target for its Teachers Innovation Platform, the move is a sign of growing momentum in a new "ed-tech" boom.
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But the edtech industry, now in its adolescence, is working its way back into classrooms and into teachers' hands. The idea is to enhance teaching, as much as learning. Business Insider caught up with some of these new "teacher tech" startups to learn about the latest trends and innovations.
Here are some of the hottest startups designing tech products for the millions of teachers in the US and throughout the world.