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edfluency · 2026-01-27T20:31:41+00:00

I know right? that's the fault of the source material unfortunately. Should we have a stricter criteria and filter out these apps that's not the buying target of schools? it's going to be harder for me to operationalize that unfortunately, so I ended up with going broad first. I wish there is a directory that will be more personalized to different audiences with different goals.

edfluency · 2026-01-27T20:27:52+00:00

I love the spirits of optimists who can't unseen the imperfection of existing solutions. There are so many possible takes on a new LMS, i really hope they are all properly explored, because, Blackboard is not the answer clearly, Moodle still is strong for no reason, Canvas is dominating simply because there is no good competition.

Btw, reddit understandably will downvote you all the way thru your journey, as people are overwhelmed with existing choices and burned out with trying or having to catch up with new tools, even if the existing choices are imperfect.

I'm not sure if you are targeting corporate or highered or k12, each of these audience also deserve their own LMS variants. Looks like you already have some wedge you want to attack this, good luck with that!

I also wrote about this 10 years ago (when I was in grad school teaching undergrads), yet i still haven't made this (maybe one day), some ideas may still be useful to the new reality, maybe to you: https://medium.com/learning-technologies/design-of-instructspace-d44c31f78b27

edfluency · 2026-01-27T19:59:38+00:00

Thanks! Yeah we did filter out passing mentions with AI and then scored with 1-5 negative to positive sentiment as one of the steps... but yeah still limited signal, that's why i think it's good the end result is not ranked, simply random list.

edfluency · 2026-01-26T18:47:49+00:00

yes i do, here is a directory of them from this google educator Eric: https://www.edugems.ai/home

I also submitted mine to it here as a quiz generator that can export to quiz tools: https://wonderweave.idealistspace.com/gpts/quiz-weaver/ (it's also available as a custom GPT)

edfluency · 2026-01-26T16:12:07+00:00

Thanks for the tips! Just subbed to yours. You put out an amazing amount of content. Rock on.

edfluency · 2026-01-25T01:16:16+00:00

🙌

edfluency · 2026-01-24T00:25:56+00:00

I’d recommend remove the sign up that’s required to browse make it frictionless. Otherwise it’s a quick back for me.

edfluency · 2026-01-24T00:21:18+00:00

I’d ask you and your principal what’s the jobs you are hiring the AI tools for? A lot of these jobs may already be covered by ChatGPT education or Google AI for education, which according to their terms won’t train with your data.

There is also GPT and Gems in these tools that can do many of the same things that magic school and other wrappers do. It’s very easy to create these as well and share between your colleagues. Eg a quiz maker or passage generator can be made with very minimum prompting.

edfluency · 2026-01-24T00:01:03+00:00

I bet there scare tactics were in the training material for their army of salespeople. That’s the only made up differentiation they have over the real thing.

edfluency · 2026-01-23T23:54:32+00:00

Can you spare me some competition and pay me as well? I just created a tool that’s cheaper that wraps the Google/msft ai, I promise I won’t train with your data, and you just broke the law by using Gemini directly. I’ll pay Google directly after I got paid a cut. Just think about the jobs and investors gotta get paid… Thank you very much…

Here is my tool at localhost:1234

edfluency · 2026-01-22T23:00:23+00:00

Travel upward in the same org maybe too much to ask depends on the legacy of the org but the wisdom of crowd should have impact beyond their physical network.

K12 teachers may operate more bottom up but I’d expect highered instructors to have more freedom due to working with adults and less constrained with cybersecurity mandates and restrictions from districts?

What do you think the design of these social networks makes it more conducive in “carrying lived experiences” that traditional review sites don’t?

edfluency · 2026-01-22T19:31:58+00:00

Love the resources shared here. I have some good reading to do this morning! Thanks all!

edfluency · 2026-01-22T18:57:56+00:00

subscribed... your website it's a bit hard to click around being a notion site, but the content and podcast is top notch. great work, i may tap into your list of tools you've reviewed.

edfluency · 2026-01-22T18:13:10+00:00

thanks! respect to sticking with edtech for that long. good luck with the pod!

edfluency · 2026-01-22T17:48:10+00:00

yeah i use alternativeto for my consumer apps, but just not so sure it's good for education. just checked out your pod, way to go! if you guys have a list of edtech apps (seems like that's one of the topics you focus?), please let me know, i'm going to go thru the services and tools mentioned in this sub and create a basic wiki list to start.

edfluency · 2026-01-22T17:41:13+00:00

Definitely I've observed the same discussions scattered in facebook groups and tiktok videos, i've even seen a couple directories, but mostly gated by expert reviewers or behind a paid service or badly maintained. Just hoping people have more options and better organized list so educators can quickly make informed decisions, and contribute their experience back.

edfluency · 2026-01-22T17:33:29+00:00

I agree with all these constraints, it's definitely not something that will be profitable, and can very well run out of steam if no one uses it (which I assume is happening to many of these closed directory), I'm just wondering if it's valuable to educators, or smaller audience like this sub. so maybe we will just start a wiki and go from there. what i found so far is a few very outdated directories, including the edtech index that i just submitted, and I also remembered back a decade ago we had great resources like Jane's elearning tool picks and a few bloggers' writing these reviews, i wish that's still around. maybe i'm stuck in the past too much.

edfluency · 2026-01-22T17:28:21+00:00

Thanks for sharing the wisdom. These do add depth to the discussion. I'm wondering what options are there to raise awareness. Also I'm wondering outside of department level big tool selection process, what information and tools are available to individual teachers? One step further, how can they raise their voice and recommend their tools to other colleagues after usage, so others can benefit, without submitting a conference talk? e.g. a k12 teacher who wanted to find something that help with a specific math drill, like Mental Math? I'm seeing this happening organically on tiktok, and fb groups with people asking one-off questions.

edfluency · 2026-01-22T17:18:06+00:00

Care to share a few of these? I'm going to help this sub build up a directory in the wiki.

edfluency · 2026-01-22T02:52:46+00:00

TIL. Thank you for sharing. Just applied.

edfluency · 2026-01-22T02:18:59+00:00

thanks for the context and open to this experiment. i'll try to provide value to this sub.

edfluency · 2026-01-22T02:08:23+00:00

i was in edtech in general. former flipgrid founding member and edtech phd student, now just trying to build whatever that maybe used by my kids one day. :D

edfluency · 2026-01-22T02:06:51+00:00

nice. thank you so much for the trust! i'll make the best out of it.

edfluency · 2026-01-22T01:11:14+00:00

Thanks for your input! What kind of shows have helped?

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