Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 1/20/23, with Guest Mateo Elvira, Edtech Content Marketer

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On this Week in Edtech:

• We speak to Mateo Elvira of Elvira Media about Edtech content marketing, and how to utilize storytelling to stand out from the crowd, as well as...
• ChatGPT: 
  • We discuss both the prediction that ChatGPT will create a new Edtech boom...
  • ...and the backlash to tech, including mass bans of both ChatGPT at large school districts and Tiktok at universities
• Big Tech: 
  • We discuss the controversial layoffs at Google and Microsoft and whether it might breed new entrepreneurs in edtech ...
  • ...and Reed Hasting's one-two punch of donating to Minerva University and then stepping down as Netflix CEO
• XR/VR/AR
  • Prisms VR launches in the Meta Store
  • ASU-incubated Dreamscape Learn gets $20M in funding
• 2023 Predictions from our friends at Transcend
  • The 2023 predictions from Transcend founders Alberto Arenaza and Michael Narea
• Funding Rounds
  • Hack The Box raises $55M
  • Sana raises $34M
  • Dreamscape Learn raises $20m
  • WorkIndia raises $12M
  • Supermom raises $6M
  • Equalture raises $2.7M
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Noodle acquires Hubble Studios