Couldn’t have said it better myself. 

This first phase of the revolution will see teachers become more efficient in their jobs by adopting web-based tools. While teaching can be a very rewarding profession, it can also be grueling. Teachers are asked to do things that take more hours than there are in a day. Much of what they are being asked to do is clerical work that can be automated away with good software tools. Ed tech startup companies are stepping in to supply this set of productivity tools.

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680231/what-will-the-ed-tech-revolution-look-like

Syntens schrijft over Joyrite: 

Joyrite zet beste beentje voor tijdens HET evenement voor educatieve startups in de VS

Op 12 en 13 juni 2012 presenteert het jonge Bredase bedrijf Joyrite haar online nakijkdienst voor docenten voor het eerst in de VS tijdens een toonaangevend evenement in Silicon Valley voor Educatieve Startups.

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The LT-Innovate Summit will bring together all major players involved in Language Technology (LT) such as policy makers, vendors and corporates, experts and investors, enhancing the visibility of the fragmented European LT landscape and establishing LT as a key enabling technology for Europe.

Joyrite will be in Brussels in June.

The LT-Innovate Summit will bring together all major players involved in Language Technology (LT) such as policy makers, vendors and corporates, experts and investors, enhancing the visibility of the fragmented European LT landscape and establishing LT as a key enabling technology for Europe.

Joyrite will be there! 

LAUNCH is hosting a two-day conference focused on education, both K12 and higher ed, kid-centric startups and innovation on June 12th & 13th, 2012 at Microsoft’s campus in Mountain View. LAUNCH Education & Kids will showcase how technology is improving education and changing the way we all learn.

Cool analysis of some of the challenges that education faces to be in sync with the times again.

This is such an interesting piece by Michael Feldstein that I almost fell off my chair when reading it. What he’s describing is almost exactly what we’re doing at Joyrite. We combine teachers’ strengths with those of algorithms and those of experts and crowds. I often – half-jokingly – refer to it as creating the bionic teacher.

Wish we could have a one-on-one exchange some day.

Scaling essay assessment: exactly what fascinates me, too. 
If you want to go for quality feedback, you won’t be able to cut out human beings completely for a while yet. What I advocate is a hybrid model to alleviate teachers’ work. In this model we make use of technology for the routine part, expert sourcing to offload work peaks to external assessors and crowdsourcing to use massive distribution. The actual teacher will be able to choose for each assignment in which aspects she/he wants to remain involved. How does that sound?

Werkdruk van leraren te hoog door correctiewerk: dat kan ook niet goed zijn voor leerlingen… Bij +Joyrite @joyrite proberen we ECHT wat te doen aan de werkdruk van leraren door ze met goed gereedschap sneller te maken bij het nakijken van opstellen e.d. Wist je al dat een leraar 200-400 uur per jaar kwijt is aan correctiewerk?