There was a time when the edtech conversation happened in the open. Teachers, researchers, founders and skeptics kept blogs, linked to one another’s posts, and argued in public on edu Twitter. You could follow an idea from a classroom to a keynote in an afternoon.
Then came the extinction event. By 2024 the edublogosphere had gone quiet and edu Twitter had scattered — into Facebook groups, LinkedIn feeds and private chats. Places that are hard to search, harder to link to, and impossible to subscribe to.
The writing never stopped, though. It moved to newsletters, personal sites, research blogs and a trade press that still publishes feeds. edfountain gathers it back into one place, where anyone can drink from it.
How the water runs
- We read public RSS feeds only: trade press, independent newsletters and blogs, research organizations, and a little general press. No scraping.
- Every 30 minutes, coverage of the same story is gathered together, so you can see who else reported it — kept apart from related reading.
- Stories are tagged from a fixed vocabulary and ranked in the open. There are no generated summaries: every headline links to the original.
- No accounts and no profiles. Your follows and pins live in your browser, and story engagement is counted anonymously.
A fountain is only as good as its springs. If you write about edtech, publish a feed and tell us — or tell us about someone who does.