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TOMi7 allows you to simulate the internet inside the classroom and to present interactive classes to the student's devices.
TOMi.Digital
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Colombia
TOMi.digital classes can be taught without the internet inside the classroom using the teacher's personal assistant device we’ve created called TOMi7. Our main services include: automatic exam grading, making any video projection into a smart-board, and attendance record keeping. We have already delivered more than 10,000 TOMi products to teachers in LATAM.
Innovation in education happens because an inspiring teacher makes it happen, we support teachers to get it.
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TEACHERS
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220 000
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11
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2019
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June 23rd, 2021
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What is TOMi.Digital?
What we do?
We are closing the gap between developed and developing countries' classrooms. TOMi.Digital platform helps teachers to find and create awesome classes and TOMi device support them to deploy it even inside classrooms without internet access.
Why we do it?
When Alejo and me (the founders) were children in Medellin Colombia, we were growing up in a violent and poor neighborhood in the middle of the drug conflict of the 90's. Despite that, there was a teacher who believed in our human potential and bet on us. Our teacher made lot of personal effort for changing our minds and becoming us into entrepreneurs. Thanks to that teacher we have created multiple EdTech companies and hundred of employments even without the opportunity of going to the College. That why we believe and work hard for teachers and we have created TOMi to help teachers to write more stories like ours.
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TOMi Digital helps to empower teachers with resources and connectivity regardless of where they are. The need to support teachers around the world and especially in rural communities is extremely important and allows for more authentic and engaging education for the students and a more creative workplace for the teachers.
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October 2020
Wise Qatar acceleration program
July 2020
XTC Challange Award
December 2017
MIT T35 Innovation award
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In emerging countries, especially in rural areas, onsite instruction is still the norm, yet the lack of qualified teachers and the Internet is a devastating issue. A device like TOMi is a way to alleviate such issues.
- HundrED Academy MemberAn excellent idea for the MANY schools that still do not have internet access.
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