This Thursday at Community Breakfast, we met Eddy, one of the faces behind Synthesis, an ed tech company building a digital learning platform for children.
Eddy works as a content developer on Synthesis Tutor, a conversational learning app that helps young students learn maths through interactive lessons. The tutor speaks with the student, asks questions, responds to their answers, and guides them through small hands on activities.
Before joining Synthesis, Eddy spent 12 years as a primary school teacher in the UK and Australia. After moving to Copenhagen, he was ready for a career shift, but his classroom experience still shapes everything he does.
From Classroom to Code
At Synthesis, Eddy helps design and build lessons that feel less like passive screen time and more like one to one learning.
The lessons are explicitly designed to be active, rahther than a passive process. Children constantly interact with learning tools, solve problems and answer adapted questions as they go.
For Eddy, the challenge is to bring the thinking of a good human tutor into a digital product. What would an expert teacher notice? Where might a child misunderstand something? What question should come next?
That is where his teaching background becomes essential.
Learning Through Understanding
One of the most interesting parts of Eddy’s talk was the focus on misconceptions.
A wrong answer is not always just wrong. Sometimes there is logic behind it. Sometimes it shows that the student understands part of the concept, but not all of it.
Synthesis is built around identifying those moments and responding in a way that supports the student. If a child understands the topic, they can move forward. If they need more help, the lesson can slow down, go deeper, and guide them step by step.
The goal is not to replace teachers, but to create a strong supplement that can support different learning levels and help close gaps in understanding.
Why It Matters
Eddy’s story was not just about education technology. It was also about change, curiosity, and using experience from one world to build something new in another.
After years in the classroom, he is now helping shape a digital tool that still carries the same core idea: learning should be patient, responsive, and built around the child.
It was a great reminder that good technology is not only about what it can do. It is about how thoughtfully it is built, and who it is built for.
It’s really great to have you here, Eddy. And welcome to the Republikken community.