Best Practices for Building Bridges Between Teachers and Ed. Tech. Entrepreneurs. Co-Written by Jennie Dougherty (teacher), Brett Kopf (Co-Founder of Remind101), Sam Chaudhary (CEO of Class Dojo), and Daniel Yoo (founder of Enome) I started this summer on a mission to provide my students with access to transformative technology.
The purpose of this post, is to offer lessons I’ve learned during my journey to build bridges between my classroom and the innovators and entrepreneurs developing cutting edge technology. My mission began when I sent an email to technology companies as well as start ups featured on websites of ed. tech incubators like New School Venture Fund, ImagineK12, and Startl; Essentially I wrote them to say: “Hey! Access to technology is inequitable, but I’m on a mission to change that!
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It seeks to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing thousands of free educational resources across seven disciplines. Verizon Thinkfinity represents a multimillion dollar investment by the Verizon Foundation to provide the highest quality online resources available for teachers, parents, and students, all for free. Through grants from the Verizon Foundation, Verizon Thinkfinity content partners like ReadWriteThink can develop the resources you see on this site.