It’s not so fun when it’s you being disrupted

Start-ups are all about buzzwords – innovation! disrupt! billion! We’re going to disrupt the something something something with our innovation that will bring us a billion dollars! Hurray! VCs , give me money! That all sounds really good until it’s you that’s being disrupted. We’re part of the Boom Startup Ed Tech accelerator for twelve…

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Really want girls to code? Give them money

Just finished the second week of the Boom Startup Ed Tech accelerator, which is GREAT. I am learning a lot and plan on working insane hours for the next few months to put it all into practice. We have had to answer  a lot of legitimately hard questions about cash flow analysis, burn rate, user…

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Why You Should Apply for Investor Funding – Whether You Need It Or Not

A few months ago, in between everything else in my life, I had been working on applications for accelerators and an executive summary for investors. While money is always a good thing, I was surprised by the unexpected benefits. The questions asked by investors are the same ones you should be asking yourself. If you…

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Why Present Your Data at a Software Conference?

I read this in a review of a study on teacher expectancy effects but it could really apply to so many other studies. If these results bear any relationship at all to reality, it is indeed a fortunate coincidence. Those of us who choose careers in research like to believe that it is all like…

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Plotting Agreement with Kappa Plots from PROC FREQ

In assessing whether our Fish Lake game really works to teach fractions, we collect a lot of data, including a pretest and a post-test. We also use a lot of types of items, including a couple of essay questions. Being reasonable people, we are interested in the extent to which the ratings on these items…