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Hey all, I’ll not promote

I’m a 19-year-old solo founder based in the UK. Over the past 8 months I’ve built and launched a platform tackling a genuinely massive problem: nearly a million young people in the UK are currently locked out of education and real job opportunities, despite having the ability to succeed. Meanwhile employers consistently say they can’t find candidates who can actually prove they’re job-ready.

I’ve built the solution to that problem, it’s live, and it’s already gaining real traction — I’ve spoken with numerous educational leaders and institutions, several conversations are progressing well, and the next step is raising investment and scaling properly.

I’m not going to lay out the exact mechanics here (early stage, don’t want ideas floating around before we’ve scaled), but if you want to see it for yourself before reaching out, take a look at join.lernapp.uk.

What I’m looking for right now — a small founding team, not a big one:

**•**	A marketer/salesperson with genuine experience selling into institutions (schools, colleges, universities, or similar B2B/public sector environments)  
**•**	A developer who wants to build something real from near the ground floor  
**•**	Bonus: anyone who’s genuinely excellent at outreach/selling on LinkedIn

Back when I was a student, we explored IOT and integration of sensors and stuff via boards like Raspberry pi , aurdino uno and Intel Edison. I know these boards can also do more than that.

I'm trying to encourage a few of my interns into these things but it's been a while and I'd like to understand the current trends and how to explore them. Thanks in advance.

Hi everyone I’m looking for a team to join me in my startup my business is live and working the problem I think we all are facing it lack of job opportunities.

If you are in the Edtech or B2B space drop a Dm to learn more and I can give you a better understanding.

I keep hearing from founders that what they built and what customers are experiencing doesn’t always match. And that the impact seems to show up in different ways. A conversion problem, pilots go well but don’t scale the way they should. Users disengage early, delivery quality hasn’t held up through scaling or an investor has asked you to prove the model is repeatable and you’re not sure how to answer. I would love to hear from anyone who’s been there and what have you done to change things.

I'm a primary school teacher (in Europe). I started using claude to simplify my workflow and helping me design and organise my lessons (+ planning). This year I started teaching religion and I have to create my own worksheets. Claude is 100 times better than OpenAI for this, but it sucks at creating images to make the worksheet more interesting for kids.

Do you guys have any tips to help me create better worksheets? How can I create work bundles about a theme in 'bulk' (= every grade has a different theme every other week).

What I already have:

• workflow md
• work bundle skill
• design system md
• cowork project instructions

I have been a classroom teacher since 1999, and I have finally had enough of what I call "solutions made by engineers and accountants". To many times in to many districts a solution has been bought to do.... (insert problem here)... and guess what, it was never made with teachers in mind... How we work, what we need... etc....

So, I am posting this here to create accountability for myself, because bringing forth issues/concerns without providing solutions (or ideas for ways to improve) is nothing but complaining.

So, therefore I am going to solve my problems for myself and my classroom, such as Seating Plans. This may seem trivial but over the years, I have experienced good seating plans (kids are awesome, working, etc...), make a change, and its like the world has fallen apart.

If you have any idea's, suggestions, or your own problems comment away, maybe we can help each other out... (And yes, I am planning on cross-posting so I can get more suggestions...)

I've been thinking about AI tutoring less as a replacement for teachers and more as a first layer of help for students who do not already have easy access to a patient adult.

On the optimistic side, a student can ask basic questions without embarrassment, repeat an explanation five times, get examples in their own language, or turn messy notes into a study plan. That feels like a real access shift, especially for students who do not have private tutors, educated parents, or quiet time with a teacher.

But I am also skeptical that access to answers automatically becomes equity. The students who benefit most may still be the ones with devices, good prompts, enough motivation, stable internet, adults who check the work, and schools that help them use the tool well. Without that support, AI could become another thing that looks equal on paper but widens the gap in practice.

So I am curious how people here think about it from an edtech/classroom perspective:

Where does AI tutoring actually reduce inequality?

Where does it just amplify existing support?

And what would a school need to put around it so it becomes more than a homework shortcut?

Hey everyone, I'm doing some investigation and looking into NotebookLM as a subject for my research, so just curious to learn. And also, just like, anything would be helpful.

For those of you using it academically:

• How are you actually using it? (e.g., feeding it lecture slides, dense research papers, or entire textbooks?)
• Do you genuinely recommend it? And what subjects does it shine in? I've heard it's decent for humanities but falls apart with math-heavy or logic-based STEM stuff – is that your experience?
• What are the biggest pitfalls or things I should be aware of? I know about the 50-source limit, but how often does it hallucinate or mess up citations in your actual workflow?

Also, I'm really curious about alternatives. If you've ditched NotebookLM for something else, what did you switch to, and why is it actually better for your specific use case? Trying to figure out if I should invest time in this or look elsewhere. Thanks!

I have no tech experience. Is python a good place to start? Any YouTube videos, books, or websites you suggest?

I'm curious what you consider to be the best LM Systems used for high school STEAM classes. Preferably an LMS that offers as many of the following:

-individual teacher licenses that are either free, freemium, or not incredibly expensive for a single teacher

-SSO capabilities for easy access to tools like Phet, CK12, and similar sites/apps.

-content repository capabilities OR integrations that allows one to connect your content easily

-not incredibly difficult for students to use

I have been using google classroom but I only find it to be useful for communicating through the stream, posting content digitally, and for providing resources for students. I'm sure it will continue to add features although. I feel as though it requires a lot of add-ons and is somewhat restrictive in personalization.

Edtech doesn't seem to drive innovation internally. In fact, what is claimed to be innovative and disruptive in edtech tends to be even larger failures.

It seems like edtech that has provided value, are innovations from other fields.

- Projectors (business presentations)

- LMSs (information systems)

- Notes like Notion, (organisational knowledge management)

- ...

Edtech academia on the technical side has had a lot of funding over the years, but even after creating so many intelligent tutoring systems and learning analytics, they tend not to provide much value in practice.

Greetings r/edtech and welcome developers, salespersons, and others. If you come to this sub seeking feedback or marketing for you product or service, this is the space in which to post. Thank you for your cooperation. We collect all of these posts into a single thread each month to prevent the sub from being overrun with this type of content.

For those of you in instructional design, IT, or admin roles who actually decide what tools get used:

1. What's your actual criteria before adopting a new tool? Cost? Evidence it works? Ease of integration? Student demand?
2. What would make you say NO to something like NotebookLM even if it looked promising?
3. Have you seen AI study tools actually improve learning outcomes? Or is it mostly hype?
4. What's the biggest barrier to adoption right now? Teacher training? Privacy concerns? Skepticism?
5. If you've seen tools fail after adoption — what went wrong?

I'm an independent developer, not a teacher, so I'm here for a reality check from people who do this every day. I built a free tool that tries to make current legislation relevant to high schoolers, and I want to know if it's actually any good.

It's called CapitolKey (capitolkey.org). You or a student can pull up real bills currently moving through Congress or a state legislature, and for each one it gives a plain-language summary, what happens if it passes or fails, why it might matter to that student, and a few civic actions. It's free, nonpartisan by design, and works without an account.

I'm not selling anything. What I'd love to know from social studies and civics teachers:

• Would you ever use this in a lesson or assign it? Why or why not?
• Is the reading level and framing right for high schoolers?
• What's missing that would make it actually classroom-usable?
• Any neutrality or accuracy concerns I should worry about?