Week in Edtech 12/01/2023: Meta's Multimodal Leap, StraighterLine and Acadeum's College Course Sharing, Plus Special Guests: Sara Mauskopf of Winnie and Candice Faktor of Disco

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In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss:

1. Big Tech:

• Meta launches “Seamless” LLM for speech-to-speech translation.  Multi-modal innovation
• Meta’s Instagram also made news in all the wrong ways

2. Higher Ed:

• StraighterLine Partners with Acadeum to Offer College Course Sharing

3. In Other News...

• U.S. Department of Education Holds Off On New Rules for Third-Party Servicers… For Now
• Curriculum Associates Acquires SoapBox Labs
• ParentSquare Acquires Remind
• 2U finances unveiled by Phil Hill, doesn't look good
• Portland Teachers Strike Ends after a month and nobody is happy
• Congress (Tom Cotton) pushing a ban on cell phones in school

Special Guests:

• Sara Mauskopf from Winnie discuss Early Childhood Education
• Candice Faktor from Disco discuss Community Powered Learning