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26 Apr 2019
#146 - Only Connect
00:58:17
What's in this episode?
Welcome to episode three of the Education 4.0 series co-curated with Jisc. This week’s episode of our series looks at where, when and how will learning happen when many ofus spend lots of time online.
Enjoy! and don't forget to message in or post using #edu4_0!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
James Clay, Head for Higher Education teaching and learning, Jisc | Twitter:@jamesclay
Hattie Abretti, Digital Learning Development Manager, Weston College |Twitter: @hattieabretti
Shira Liberty, Global Director of Education, Selina | Instagram: @Selina
Seth Haberman, CEO, Sense Education | Twitter: @sethhaberman
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
29 Jan 2023
#260 - Oak National Academy and 'Click-and-Pick' Curriculums
00:50:18
Welcome to this episode in our series produced by Professor Rose Luckin's EDUCATE Ventures Research, exploring 'Evidence-Based EdTech', and hosted on The Edtech Podcast
This mini-series connects, combines, and highlights leading expertise and opinion from the worlds of EdTech, AI, Research, and Education, helping teachers, learners, and technology developers get to grips with ethical learning tools that are led by the evidence.
For this episode, Rose and Karine play host to Lord Jim Knight in the EdTech Podcast Zoom studio this week, and try to understand the arguments surrounding the establishment of Oak National Academy as an 'Arm's Length Body'.
They dig into whether Oak Academy - an organisation providing an online classroom and resource hub and set up in the UK during the pandemic - has shifted substantially from a well-intentioned response to Covid to something more challenging for the Edtech sector and potentially those it serves.
And finally, shout out to Rose, Karine and Jim for also digging into the world of ChatGPT and how we should start thinking of that within our classrooms and for our young people.
Thank you to Learnosity for sponsoring this episode, and for supporting the Evidence-Based EdTech series on the EdTech Podcast.
09 Dec 2022
#255 - Evidence in EdTech
01:05:37
Welcome to this first episode in a series produced by Professor Rose Luckin's EDUCATE Ventures Research, exploring 'Evidence-Based EdTech', and hosted on The Edtech Podcast.
This mini-series connects, combines, and highlights leading expertise and opinion from the worlds of EdTech, AI, Research, and Education, helping teachers, learners, and technology developers get to grips with ethical learning tools that are led by the evidence.
For this episode we examine the presence of EdTech in schools, looking at how we judge whether the tech ‘works’ or not. We explore what makes for good evidence, why contextual use is significant, and how school CPD, infrastructure development, and staff capacity building are vital to making the most of the tools at our disposal.
Can our schools operate as testbeds for emerging technology, and is this an ethical or beneficial use of class time? Why is an evidence-led investment and regulatory ecosystem so important? What is a ‘research mindset’ for aspiring technology developers, and do users even care about the evidence?
We'll be asking:
How do we know EdTech works?
What does good evidence look like, and what can stakeholders in the ecosystem do to ensure it is high-quality?
What are the biggest barriers to generating good evidence and getting itinto the hands of the people in companiesresponsiblefor technology development,andinto the hands of those usingthat technology?
Thank you to SMART Technologies for sponsoring this episode, and for supporting the Evidence-Based EdTech series on the EdTech Podcast
21 Jun 2023
#269 - Creating the Conditions for Success
00:45:03
The fifth and final episode in the Evidence-Based EdTech miniseries produced by Professor Rose Luckin's EDUCATE Ventures Research, exploring education, research, AI and EdTech, and hosted on The Edtech Podcast
The Evidence-Based EdTech miniseries connects, combines, and highlights leading expertise and opinion from the worlds of EdTech, AI, Research, and Education, helping teachers, learners, and technology developers get to grips with ethical learning tools led by the evidence.
In our previous episode, Rose was in conversation with representatives from Make (Good) Trouble, Feminist Internet, and Soundwaves Foundation, an organisation pursuing technology to assist with deaf or hearing-impaired students in the classroom. We asked a number of questions that centred around what inclusive technology looks like to each of the guests in the room, given that they had and worked with unique perspectives, and what their thoughts were around user agency and why it was so vital EdTech developers be mindful of this in the creation of their products. Our last question was on what we should demand of technology that it cater to people from diverse backgrounds. Was it data, the context, access, that allowed tech to help those from diverse backgrounds?
In this episode, we’d like to extend these same thoughts on DEI and ethics outward, beyond the borders of the UK.
We'll be asking:
Are international education ecosystems implementing their diversity, equity and inclusion any differently from that of the UK? What could be learned from them that EdTech developers and educationalists can adopt and use in the UK?
From an international perspective, is the technology developed in the first world, but exported to the third, sensitive to the context of its use or too prescriptive? And as an additional point, has the third world reshaped its attitudes towards diversity and ethics in technology in line with what it believes the first world will find desirable or employable?
There’s rumour of national and international standards for good evidence in EdTech coming out of some countries, with presumably varying emphasis placed on adherence to these standards by different governments and regulatory bodies. What is our guest's opinion on how robust they think regulation needs to be where EdTech evidence is concerned, and how strictly do they think such standards should be enforced when developing and using EdTech?
Our guest this week is Jane Mann, Managing Director for Cambridge Partnership for Education.
With over two decades of experience in the education sector, as Managing Director of the Cambridge Partnership for Education Jane is now focused on working with ministries of education, government agencies, NGOs, donor agencies and educational organisations to advocate for, design and implement effective programmes of education transformation. The Cambridge Partnership for Education works across the globe in curriculum and assessment design and development, creation of teaching and learning resources, professional development, stakeholder engagement and English language learning and skills.
Thank you to Cambridge Partnership for Education for sponsoring this episode, and for supporting the Evidence-Based EdTech series on the EdTech Podcast.
13 Feb 2019
#138 - Education 4.0 > Teaching Transformed
00:43:57
What's in this episode?
Hello dear listeners, welcome to this new episode of The Edtech Podcast, the show that aims to improve the dialogue between ed and tech for better innovation and impact.
This week I’m super excited to share the first episode in our new series Education 4.0, co-curated with our friends at Jisc. You can follow the conversation using #Edu4_0.
This week is all about teaching transformed covering everything from setting up an entirely new teaching and learning campus, blended learning, the limitations of online and much more.
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Jane Bunce, Director of Student and Academic Services, University of Northampton
Professor Alejandro Armellini, (MEd, PhD, PFHEA, FRSA), Dean of Learning and Teaching and Director of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Northampton |Twitter: @alejandroa
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
10 Oct 2019
#166 - Driving Digital Transformation & Creating a Culture Open to Change
00:36:23
What's in this episode?
Welcome to this first episode of The Edge: Innovation and Intelligence Imperative, a new series from the makers of The Edtech Podcast, supported by Salesforce.Org. This series is all about the leaders in higher education doing things a bit differently. There's more about what we've got coming up here.
We talk about trust in a mistrustful time. Plus, How can new and old(er) Universities leapfrog legacy issues? Why is digital marketing and admissions not always about volume but about curating the right cohort of future leaders? How can the cultures of academia and new agile methodologies be reconciled? All this and more in this week's episode! Plus, some practical suggestions from our guests that you can implement today.
Enjoy!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Iain Harper, Head of Digital Marketing, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford | Twitter: @OxfordSBS
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
20 Sep 2021
#230 - Audio + Learning
01:00:42
Hello listeners!
Hello everyone and welcome back to The Edtech Podcast. Our mission is to improve the dialogue between ed and tech for better innovation and impact and it’s great to be back.
What's in this episode?
In this episode, I'm joined by guests to talk about all things audio and learning. We look back at the varied history of audio and learning, plus new applications of audio for learning. We talk about the growth of spoken word, its ability to "represent and overcome" barriers to access, and both high and low tech innovations from Whatsapp to Voice-Activated technology. Plus, public and private playlists, searchability and the role of Big Tech, and the role of audio to share best practice and familiarity between learners within varied learning environments. Also in this episode, new cool things for schools, students and startups to get involved in and a book review from Michael Shaw who has been reading "Teaching Machines". Thanks for listening!
Don’t forget to drop your comments @podcastedtech on Twitter or during our clubhouse session.
#152 - A Canadian dyslexic on a mission, African Childhood studies and teaching and tech in the Philippines
00:42:02
Hello everyone.
As we speak, it’s London Edtech Week in the UK so to celebrate we are putting out an episode of The Edtech Podcast every day! PHEW!
You’ll be hearing from a mixture of amazing teachers, Ministries of Education, edtech companies, Sleep specialists and much more recorded all over the world.
If you enjoy listening, give us a shout out on twitter @podcastedtech and share the London Edtech Week hashtag #edtechweekldn.
Today;
This episode was recorded at GESF 2019.
Francis Jim Tuscano, Ed Tech Coordinator and chairperson of the Religious and Values Education department at the grade school unit of Xavier School – San Juan, Philippines
Samuel Munyuwiny, Executive Director, Edward Mose, Program Manager, Education Fund, Kenya, African Childhood Studies Institute
Aaron Friedland, Founder and CEO, Simbii
Don't forget, if you want to support our work you can donate on the website www.theedtechpodcast.com.
Normal service resumes next week. Enjoy!
03 Sep 2020
#206 - Learning in the Flow of Work
00:30:25
What's in this episode?
A pre-COVID workplace learning technology chat.
In this episode we throwback to a past recording at Reimagine Education in December 2019, where we were in pre-COVID times chatting about the power of workplace learning technology in our Voctech Podcast LIVE session. You will hear about:
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via. twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
07 Jan 2019
#135 - FINLAND: "It’s time to come up with new innovations"
00:51:15
Welcome back dear listeners! Bring on 2019!!
What's in this episode?
This episode was recorded at HundrED Summit in Helsinki. We talk about how to sustain and scale change in education. The role of autonomy, entrepreneurialism, teachers and students in change making AND why we should never forget the greats in pedagogical thinking.
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Pia Pakarinen, Deputy Mayor for Education, City of Helsinki | Twitter: Pia_Pakarinen
Ilona Taimela, teacher and educational consultant, City of Helsinki | Twitter: @IlonaTaimela
Plus clips from Pasi Sahlberg @pasi_sahlberg, Finnish educator and author who has worked as schoolteacher, teacher educator, researcher, and policy advisor and Finnish Minister of Education, Sanni Grahn-Laasonen @sannigrahn- courtesy of speeches at HundrED Summit.
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
25 Oct 2023
#273 - How to stay in Love with Science
00:52:13
SCIENCE! Under discussion today are the ways in which students who were switched off the sciences at school manage to retain their curiosity about the subjects and can even reengage with it later in life. Professor Rose Luckin is very lucky to have in the online studio this week Dr Andrew Morris, Honorary Associate Professor at UCL, former president of the Education Section of the British Science Association, and author, whose book, Bugs, Drugs, and Three-Pin Plugs: Everyday Science, Simply Explained, is now available wherever books are sold.
Dr Morris has an interest in serving learners and the public through scientific and evidence-based outreach. The discussion in the studio centred around science, technology, research and practice in education.
Talking points and questions:
The ways in which people who were switched off the sciences at school retain their curiosity and can reengage with science at a later point in life
Examples of topics and ways of approaching science that have been revealed by Dr Morris’ science discussion groups
Research-informed educational practice, and research-informed educational policy
Ways in which research can be transformed and mediated for use
The Skinny on AI for Education, EVR's newest publication featuring insights, trends and developments in the world of AI Ed
04 Mar 2020
#187 - Personal Learner Budgets (& Coronavirus)
00:59:53
What's in this episode?
In this episode, we hear about one organisation trying to embed personal learning budgets into the workplace, and draw together the best learning resources in one playlist. You’ll hear from Rajeeb Dey, Founder & CEO at Learnerbly.
PLUS we hear from some of our listeners on the effects of the Coronavirus, online learning and remote working.
Thank you Ufi Voctech Trust for supporting this series and vocational skills development in the UK, through their investments and grants in vocational technology. You can check out their work here.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
Enjoy!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
02 Jun 2020
#194 - Working out the new norm: Edtech under lockdown
01:16:47
What's in this episode?
This week, a listener special.
Listen in to this conversation between friends in the online learning and edtech community as they work out what the new normal might look like across schools, colleges and Universities.
People
Saqib Safdar, Digital Innovation and Learning Lead at Star Academies (awarded MAT of the year) | Twitter: @ssafdar314
Julian Bream, Manages the Bloomsbury Learning Exchange at the University of London and runs the Digital Innovation roundtables that share good practice across London's FE and Adult Learning sectors, recognised in this year's #EdTech50 | Twitter: @julian_bream
Khaled AMG Al-Ankar, Head of E-learning & Libraries at the Hull College Group. With the main focus on blended learning and innovation using widening participation delivery models that enhance the pedagogy of both staff and students | Twitter: @khaledal_ankar
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via. twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
21 Feb 2023
#263 - What Does Digital Transformation Look Like?
00:42:14
The next Bett is being billed as the best Bett ever. It’s always an important date on the education calendar, but what will make this one different? Hear what Bett is doing differently, why it’s important, and what they'll be doing to measure whether or not it works. Here’s a hint: it’s all about the data.
21 Jun 2019
#155 - Why you need more sleep, bleeding edge tech in Singapore and two mission-driven & globe trotting educators sharing the mic
00:30:05
Hello everyone.
As we speak, it’s London Edtech Week in the UK so to celebrate we are putting out an episode of The Edtech Podcast every day! PHEW!
You’ll be hearing from a mixture of amazing teachers, Ministries of Education, edtech companies, Sleep specialists and much more recorded all over the world.
If you enjoy listening, give us a shout out on twitter @podcastedtech and share the London Edtech Week hashtag #Londonedtech #Londonedtechweek
This episode was recorded at this year's GESF.
Today;
Koen Timmers, Global Teacher Prize Top 10, Belgium
Armand Doucet, Global Teacher Prize Top 10, Canada
Adrian Elangovan, National University of Singapore
Jared Saletin, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University and the Associate Director of E.P. Bradley Hospital Sleep Research Laboratory.
Don't forget, if you want to support our work you can donate on the website www.theedtechpodcast.com.
Normal service resumes next week. Enjoy!
06 Feb 2023
#261 - Has ChatGPT Done Education a Favour?
00:36:32
Welcome to this episode in our series produced by Professor Rose Luckin's EDUCATE Ventures Research, and hosted on The Edtech Podcast
In this episode, Karine and Rose meet this week to discuss the Online Safety Bill, school absences, and ChatGPT, the latter of which has produced huge public debate, from teacher anxieties to developer felicitations, questions from parents, and columnist think pieces all around the presence of AI in the classroom. With all of these concerns, however, is it possible that ChatGPT has done education a favour?
OpenAI's ChatGPT is the third and latest version of their text-generating AI technology, and it's been trained on over 45 terabytes of data. If that seems like a lot, it is: the entirety of English-language Wikipedia accounts for just 1% of that volume in comparison. The talk of Twitter and intrigued educationalists in schools around the anglosphere, much of the discussion has been around its use as a replacement for human cognition: will students use it to cheat in essays and assessments? Does its information retrieval dumb-down student opportunities for learning when material is simply parroted, rather than interrogated and the learning then applied in novel contexts? In this week's episode, Karine and Rose discuss practical uses for this incredibly powerful tool, and explain why human and machine intelligence can work together successfully to improve teaching and learning, and our understanding of AI.
Material discussed in this episode includes:
Square Peg's new book by Fran Morgan and Ellie Costello, with Ian Gilbert:
Square Pegs: Inclusivity, Compassion, and Fitting In - a Guide for Schools, available here
EVR and Cambridge Partnership for Education's Covid-19 report:
Shock to the System: Lessons from Covid-19, available here
04 Nov 2019
#169 - New Models to Connect Talent and Training
00:36:17
What's in this episode?
Welcome to the next episode in our #voctechpodcast series!
Beam is the world’s first crowdfunding platform that helps people from disadvantaged backgrounds train up and get into rewarding work. In this weeks episode, we talk to Beam's CEO, Alex Stephany, about crowdfunding for social good, and the importance of grit, alongside training, education and support networks.
We also run the first of our FE features where our presenter, Ian Hurd is in conversation with Rory Meredith, Head Of School for Creative Industries at Coleg y Cymoedd and Visiting Lecturer at the University of South Wales. They talk about preparing for the future in FE.
Thank you to Ufi Charitable trust and Ufi Ventures for supporting this series. Go and check out their fine work in developing innovative vocational technology to support workplace skills development.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
Enjoy and have an excellent week!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
09 Sep 2019
#161 - Richard Price, Learning Technologies Advisor, NHS Health Education England
00:32:25
What's in this episode?
Hello dear listeners, welcome to this new episode of The Edtech Podcast, the show that aims to improve the dialogue between ed and tech for better innovation and impact.
This week I’m super excited to share this first episode (yay!) of our new series The Voctech Podcast: learning continued, which seeks to explore the intersection of adult learning and tech. You can follow the conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech.
A big shout out to Ufi Charitable trust and Ufi Ventures who made this new series possible; go and check out their fine work in developing innovative vocational technology to support workplace skills development.
This week is all about preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future, as set out in the Topol review, how to communicate training objectives across an enormous and diverse workforce, and how to assess new technologies and their impact on learning. Lots of transferable lessons for anyone utilising or deploying digital skills!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Richard Price, Learning Technologies Advisor, NHS Health Education England | Twitter: @RichardPriceUK
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram. You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
21 Feb 2024
#275 - Preparing Young People for their Future with AI
00:55:16
What's in this episode?
Delighted to launch this new 5-episode miniseries on AI in education, sponsored by Nord Anglia Education, host Professor Rose Luckin kicks things off for the Edtech Podcast by examining how we keep education as the centre of gravity for AI.
AI has exploded in the public consciousness with innovative large language models writing our correspondence and helping with our essays, and sophisticated images, music, impersonations and video generated on-demand from prompts. Whilst big companies proclaim what this technology can achieve and how it will affect work, life, play and learning, the consumer and user on the ground and in our schools likely has little idea how it works or why, and it seems like a lot of loud voices are telling us only half the story. What's the truth behind AI's power? How do we know it works, and what are we using to measure its successes or failures? What are our young people getting out of the interaction with this sophisticated, scaled technology, and who can we trust to inject some integrity into the discourse? We're thrilled to have three guests in the Zoom studio with Rose this week:
We often ask of technology in the classroom 'does it work'? But when it comes to AI, preparing people to work, live, and play with it will be more than just whether or not it does what the developers want it to. We need to start educating those same people HOW it works, because that will not only protect us as consumers out in the world, as owners of our own data, but help build a more responsible and 'intelligent' society that is learning all of the time, and better able to support those who need it most. So if we want that 'intelligence infrastructure', how do we build it?
What examples of AI in education have we got so far, what areas have been penetrated and has anything radically changed for the better? Can assessment, grading, wellbeing, personalisation, tutoring, be improved with AI enhancements, and is there the structural will for this to happen in schools?
The ‘white noise’ surrounding AI discourse: we know the conversation is being dominated by larger-than-life personalities and championed by global companies who have their own technologies and interests that they're trying to glamourise and market. What pushbacks, what reputable sources of information, layman's explanations, experts and opinions should we be listening to to get the real skinny on AI, especially for education?
Sponsorship
Thank you so much to this series' sponsor: Nord Anglia Education, the world’s leading premium international schools organisation. They make every moment of your child’s education count. Their strong academic foundations combine world-class teaching and curricula with cutting-edge technology and facilities, to create learning experiences like no other. Inside and outside of the classroom, Nord Anglia Education inspires their students to achieve more than they ever thought possible.
"Along with great academic results, a Nord Anglia education means having the confidence, resilience and creativity to succeed at whatever you choose to do or be in life." - Dr Elise Ecoff, Chief Education Officer, Nord Anglia Education
28 Feb 2022
#238 - Digital Strategy for Schools
00:48:42
What's in this episode?
In this episode, I chat with Al Kingsley, author of My Secret Edtech Diary, MAT Leader and Edtech CEO. We chat about:
Essential questions you should be asking around edtech
Practical considerations for funding and implementing Edtech
How to create change through informal and formal channels, without doing it all yourself.
Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via Twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram. We'd love to hear your thoughts.
10 Mar 2020
#188 - Celebrating Change-Makers in Higher Ed
01:19:43
What's in this episode?
Hello everyone and welcome to the seventh and final episode of our "The Edge" series, supported by Salesforce.Org. This series is all about new ways of doing things in Higher Education leadership.
In this episode, we celebrate "Change-Makers in Higher Ed", speaking to three leaders who have worked to implement new ways of doing things in their own University communities.
At the beginning of each interview, all of our amazing guests give us a window into their failures and successes over the years, as well as approaches to making change viable, before going into their specific projects.
You can follow the conversation using #EdtechEdge and #edtechpodcast
Enjoy and thanks for listening to the series!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Liz Shutt, Director of Policy, University of Lincoln, 21st Century Lab | Twitter: @LizShutt
Kimberly Eke, Senior Director, Information Technology at University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education | Twitter: @kimeke
Dr. Claire Gordon, Director, LSE Eden Centre for Education Enhancement | Twitter: @GordonCE
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21 Feb 2023
#262 - Using AI in Higher Education
00:56:46
We examine AI and EdTech penetration in universities and what form that takes, what capacity exists to implement these changes effectively; we'll look at 21st Century HE learner needs, such as personalisation, recommendations, intelligent support, profiling and prompts; try to determine how to provide added value to university experience given the costs involved, and what the future of tech-enhanced HE could look like to help produce the best graduates possible.
01 Sep 2021
#229 - on AI and Social Mobility
01:20:36
Hello again listeners!
Hello everyone and welcome back to The Edtech Podcast. Our mission is to improve the dialogue between ed and tech for better innovation and impact and it’s great to be back.
What's in this episode?
This week we’ve got Thomas Moule, author of Cracking Social Mobility: how AI and other innovations can help to level the playing field, in conversation with TeacherTapp Co-Founder, Laura McInerney. In this episode, he talks about how technology can help to make education more equitable. For example, Intelligent Tutoring Systems enabling all students to enjoy the benefits of private tuition and AI along with other innovations making teachers more productive and effective, hence improving educational standards equitably across the board.
I loved editing this episode and listening to the various pushbacks and qualifications on both sides as the guests navigate contextual admissions, careers advice, and evading technological determinism. I hope you enjoy too. Don’t forget to drop your comments @podcastedtech on twitter or during our clubhouse session.
Guests:
Thomas Moule, author of Cracking Social Mobility: how AI and other innovations can help to level the playing field. Thomas works at Jisc as Product Lead at the National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education and previously led operations at The Institute for Ethical AI in Education, and worked for a leading EdTech company. He started his career as a science teacher, completing the Teach First Programme in Yorkshire. You can find Thomas at @tommoule8 on twitter. Of the biggest myth or foe in education or technology that he would like to see corrected, Thomas writes of the idea that “social mobility is a divisive agenda, which merely aims to airlift the talented few out of poverty whilst neglecting the needs of the many. This characterisation is not only inaccurate, it is dangerous. Talent and potential are distributed equally and abundantly throughout society. The problem is that opportunity is not. Proponents of social mobility simply want this to be put right.”
Laura McInerney, Co-founder of Teacher Tapp, an app that surveys 8000 teachers every day. "No one was more shocked by my GCSE results than my mum, who seemed to think that teachers telling her I was very clever was just them being polite! Going to a bog-standard comprehensive school (that's now closed) and then to an adult education centre (a weird FE hybrid thing) and then to Oxford does make me think that schools can come in many forms and it call all be okay!"
13 Aug 2019
#159 - How to develop the team who will deliver change
00:51:29
What's in this episode?
Hello everyone!
In this episode, we’re travelling back to (the) Future Edtech conference where a panel of Higher Education leaders discuss how to develop the team that delivers change in the context of institutional capability and leadership development for the "21st Century University". You will hear about how saying no to change is embracing the status quo, academic and professional services collaboration as central towards bringing about change, and why downloading board papers digitally shouldn’t be beyond the University SLT. We also think about value and the tussle between liberal education and University as a bridge to work.
Stay in touch and have a great week!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Debbie Holley - Professor of Learning Innovation & Head, Centre for Excellence in Learning, Bournemouth University
Chris Cobb - Pro Vice-Chancellor & Deputy Chief Executive, University of London
Andrew Turner,Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning, Coventry University
Wendy Purcell - Professor, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
Jane Armstrong - Senior Director, EMEA Industry Solutions Higher Education, Salesforce
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
19 Jun 2019
#153 - John Katzman chews the (edtech) fat + special guests
00:53:09
Hello everyone.
As we speak, it’s London Edtech Week in the UK so to celebrate we are putting out an episode of The Edtech Podcast every day! PHEW!
You’ll be hearing from a mixture of amazing teachers, Ministries of Education, edtech companies, Sleep specialists and much more recorded all over the world.
If you enjoy listening, give us a shout out on twitter @podcastedtech and share the London Edtech Week hashtag #londonedtech
Today;
Recorded at SXSW EDU, HundrED Summit and online.
Tra-My Nguyen, Maker Academy Initiator & Coordinator, Kidspire, Vietnam
John Katzman, Founder and CEO, Noodle
Dasha Marchetti, Executive director at Bucks County Community College
Stephan Caspar, Assistant Teaching Professor in Media Creation and Multicultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Don't forget, if you want to support our work you can donate on the website www.theedtechpodcast.com.
Normal service resumes next week. Enjoy!
09 Dec 2019
#176 - HigherEd & Tech in 2019 and beyond
00:54:21
What's in this episode?
Hello everyone and welcome to the fourth episode of our "The Edge" series, supported by Salesforce.Org. This series is all about new ways of doing things in Higher Education leadership and this week's episode is all about HigherEd & Tech in 2019 and beyond.
In our final #EdTechEdge episode of 2019, we ask Vice-chancellors and Presidents of Universities what their top concerns were in 2019, what they see coming online in 2025 and beyond. Plus, the role of technology in solving some of higher education’s challenges. You’ll hear about Brexit and international academic relations, university and perceived value, funding and mental health and wellbeing, and the online and physical campus.
You can follow the conversation using #EdtechEdge and #edtechpodcast
Happy listening and have an excellent week!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
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20 Apr 2020
#192 - Dr. Peter Shukie on Connecting Learning with Purpose
00:54:44
What's in this episode?
In this week’s episode, we throwback to a recording with Dr. Peter Shukie, Academic Group Leader, Creative and Digital at University Centre Blackburn College. Peter was the 2019 National Winner of the Festival of Learning Social Impact award, and in this episode, we talk about connecting learning with purpose. Plus, how IBM and UCL are collaborating on relieving loneliness during social isolation.
Thank you Ufi Voctech Trust for supporting this series and vocational skills development in the UK through their investments and grants in vocational technology. You can check out their work here.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
Enjoy!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Dr. Peter Shukie, Academic Group Leader, Creative and Digital, University Centre at Blackburn College | Twitter: @ShukieOne
John McNamara, Senior Inventor and IBM UK University Program Leader, IBM Hursley | Twitter: @j0nnymac
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13 Apr 2020
#191 - What Matters In Edtech ASIA
01:03:45
Our podcast collaboration with Bett, What Matters in Edtech, is back, this time with a focus on global education. This podcast series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.
What's in this episode?
In our first episode, we focus on Asia and the current challenges and insights from this region. Asia was the first region to see the impact of COVID-19 on the education system and school closures.
We speak to a range of educators and partners in the region to talk about their approach to teaching and learning both before and during the Coronavirus crisis.
What tools and pedagogies are they utilising to best serve their students in the here and now, and also prepare local youth for the connected digital world in the long-term? And just how has Coronavirus expedited or frustrated these strategies in the region.
You’ll also hear about robust technology developed to take on one of the harshest environments out there – space - and how this is being adapted to fulfil large data research projects in this current time.
You can follow the conversation using #edtechpodcast and #BettASIA
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
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19 Jan 2020
#182 - Innovation
01:16:34
Welcome to the fifth episode of our What Matters in Edtech series, supported by Bett. This series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.
Thank you to pi-top for sponsoring this week's episode.
What's in this episode?
This episode is all about Innovation.
What is innovation? How can it be measured and sustained? How can a culture of innovation be developed, and what examples of pedagogical and technological innovation have come to the fore in recent years? We speak to entrepreneurs, ecosystem developers, academics and educators about the role of innovation and hear about how innovation is evolving in virtual reality in Singapore, career technical education in the US, STEAM education in Belgium, and real-world problem-solving in Bhutan. Plus, why educators are inherent innovators and more about the edtech innovation testbed here in the U.K. Phew!
You can follow the conversation using #edtechpodcast and #Bett2020
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Dr Peter David Looker, formerly Head, Teaching, Learning and Pedagogy Division, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, now Chief Learning Officer, Eon Reality | Twitter: @peterloo51
Niko Lindholm, Program Director, Eduspaze (formerly XEdu) | Twitter: @nikolindholm
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31 Aug 2020
#205 - Back to School, Back to College with The Edtech Demonstrator Programme
00:54:05
What's in this episode?
The next in our mini-series on the edtech demonstrator programme in England, this time with a focus on back to school and college. Lots of tips on continuity of learning, plus peer to peer and wellbeing support.
Also in this episode, Fergus Bruce of Sublime talking us through this week’s guest blog and Caroline Wright of BESA with some events news. And finally, Charlie James of edtech demonstrator college, Basingstoke College of Technology, on from learner to learning technologist and blasted resits.
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16 Jul 2020
#199 - Lessons from Home Learning
01:03:16
What's in this episode?
This week’s episode is all about home learning. We’re in conversation with school leaders and digital leads, Edtech Demonstrator coordinators, editors and edtech companies taking stock of the past weeks experience in the UK and how we might prepare and improve as the Autumn term approaches, with local lockdowns also looming.
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05 Jan 2020
#179 - Empowering Teaching and Learning
01:12:14
Welcome to the fourth episode of our What Matters in Edtech series, supported by Bett. This series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.
What's in this episode?
Hello and Happy New Year everyone!!
Our first episode of 2020 is all about Empowering Teachers and Learners. Thank you to Promethean for sponsoring this week's episode.
In this episode, you'll hear from a range of school leaders, professional development specialists, and techie teachers, about the conditions to empower teachers and learners. We talk teacher time, flexibility and trust, evidence-based practice relevant to particular school context and how to best implement tech that supports T & L.
You can follow the conversation using #edtechpodcast and #Bett2020
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Deirdre Hodson, Policy Officer, European Commission, Across Education, Youth, Sport and Culture | Twitter: @deirdrehodson
Sarah Horrocks, Director, London Connected Learning Centre | Twitter: @s_horrox Cat Scutt, Director of Education and Research, Chartered College of Teaching and Learning | Twitter: @CatScutt
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04 Apr 2019
#144 - Digging into Digital Skills Development
00:50:41
What's in this episode?
Hello listeners! This week’s episode is a treasure trove digging into digital skills development.You’ll hear from Kerensa Jennings on the art of audio production and digital skill access for all, Iris Lapinski on new learning tools early adopter teachers who want to pick up new skills in machine learning and AI, and Patrick Cutliffe who is working with Facebook to upskill a huge cohort of 18-30 year old learners to earners.Enjoy, and send us your feedback and comments!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
We are on the lookout for value-aligned sponsors for the Spring '19 schedule. Contact us to find out more.
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09 Jan 2023
#258 - EdSurge on The Edtech Podcast (Second Acts Series, Episode 2)
00:44:47
Hello everyone and welcome to The Edtech Podcast and this episode in collaboration with EdSurge.
This is the second episode in a three-part series to explore the nuances of adult lifelong learners and what sparks their return to University.
Hello everyone and welcome back to The Edtech Podcast, where we aim to improve the dialogue between “ed” and “tech” for better innovation and impact.
In this series, sponsored by WorkTripp, we are looking at all things Future of Work, and how that intersects with learning, leadership, humans, and technology.
In this episode, I'm chatting with author and founder Garry Pratt. We explore:
The foundations of entrepreneurialism
The evolution of edtech (and the internet)
The science behind outdoor time, creativity and innovation (for entrepreneurs & educators)
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26 Nov 2021
#234 - Removing barriers in skills development
00:49:15
What's in this episode?
Hello and welcome to the next series of The VocTech Podcast where we take a look at vocational learning technologies and improving opportunity in the workplace. This series is supported by Ufi VocTech Trust.
This episode was recorded LIVE at the Week Of Voctech and in it, you'll hear about;
how to remove barriers in education
how to boost learner confidence, and
how to build a use case for tech in learning within a corporate or workplace environment
Happy listening!
Join in the conversation using #VocTechPodcast and #VocTech.
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18 Nov 2022
#253 - (LIVE) Supporting hidden learner communities through human-centred design
00:49:36
What's in this episode?
Hello beautiful listeners!
In this episode, we chat to:
A business on a mission to provide better opportunities to apprentices through technology and coaching, with
Chichi Eruchalu, Head of Leadership Development, Multiverse
A business that maps talented gamer skills traits to learner and employment pathways with
David Barrie, Founder, GameAcademy
An online community working connecting 11 million unpaid carers to peer-to-peer learning with
James Townsend, Founder, Mobilise
This episode is part of our VocTech Podcast series produced in collaboration with Ufi VocTech Trust, as part of the annual #WeekOfVocTech.
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19 Nov 2021
#233 - School Leadership: navigating constant change
00:51:45
Hello listeners!
In this episode, I am in conversation with Simon Freeman, the MD for IRIS Education who provide agile School Management Software for 12000 schools in the UK and Internationally.
Simon has an amazing array of public sector technology experience and in this episode we talk about;
How School Leaders can manage the scale of the task ahead when it comes to the role of technology, learning and digitally-competent leadership within the school environment to create precious time for school plans.
How to choose agile partners, who can act as a change management partner during this process. What to look out for and what to avoid.
How to tap into the data within your school and get your MIS out from under desks. Is that you? The big message here is RELEASE THE DATA! and get onboard with agile processes.
Plus, free tickets for listeners to Reimagine Education, and other awards news and updates!
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22 Nov 2019
#173 - Future Tech & Trends
01:00:59
Welcome to the second episode of our What Matters in Edtech, supported by Bett. This series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.
What's in this episode?
In this episode, we are looking at future tech and trends in teaching and learning. Predicting the future is notoriously difficult, but there is value to be drawn in sharing ideas on where time and energy is being focused and why. In this episode, we speak to a range of educators and edtech specialists, about what’s capturing their attention and why.
Big thanks to Redway Networks for sponsoring this week's episode.
You can follow the conversation using #edtechpodcast and #Bett2020
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Mark Martin, Computer Science Lead, South Bank Engineering UTC aka Urban Teacher | Twitter: @urban_teacher
David Lefevre, Director of the EdTech Lab, Imperial College Business School | Twitter: @edtech_lab
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07 Nov 2019
#170 - SEND and Inclusion
00:53:10
Welcome to this first episode of our newest series, What Matters in Edtech, supported by Bett. This series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.
What's in this episode?
In the first episode, we are looking at Inclusion and Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
We look at those working across teaching, learning and research supporting those with special educational needs and disabilities. We look at how their efforts are making way for better identification of learning needs, better innovation in assistive technology, and more inclusion in the classroom, at a time when grade pressure is charged with marginalising SEND learners.
You can follow the series conversation using #edtechpodcast
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
John Galloway, Inclusion and SEND Specialist, Tower Hamlets | Twitter: @johngalloway
Dr. Duncan Astle, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge | Twitter: @DuncanAstle
Sarah Jones, Year 3 and 4 teacher, Head and SENDco at Norham St Ceolwulf’s Church of England First School at Berwick Upon Tweed | Twitter: @Miss_Jones_83
Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Global Head of Accessibility, Microsoft | Twitter: @jennylayfluffy
Helen Caldwell, Senior Lecturer in Education (ITE - ICT), University of Northampton | Twitter: @helencaldwel
Leena Haque, Senior UX Designer & BBC Neurodiversity Lead | Twitter: @L1LHulk
Sean Gilroy, Head of Cognitive Design, BBC | Twitter: @S67Sean
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27 Nov 2020
#216 - VocTech Now: three college stories, responding to the pandemic
00:59:47
What's in this episode?
VocTech Now was part of Ufi's response to support the vocational learning sector in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic.
It addressed the immediate barriers being faced by supporting vocational learning providers to rapidly transition to remote teaching and training and deliver accessible learning at a time of significant change. This was done with small grants of between £10k and £25k.
In this episode, you'll hear stories from three colleges; Lancaster & Morecambe College, the Isle of Wight College and South West College in Northern Ireland. Our guests talk about some of the Further Education challenges they faced during 2020, how their collaboration with VocTech Now had a positive impact and we delve into some of the lessons they have learnt along the way.
Enjoy and follow the conversation using#VocTechPodcastand#VocTechNow.
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06 Nov 2022
#252 - EdSurge on The Edtech Podcast (Second Acts Series, Episode 1)
00:42:50
What's in this episode?
In this week's episode, we are in collaboration with EdSurge and publishing the first of athree-part series EdSurge have developed to explore the nuances of adult lifelong learners and what sparks their return to University.
There are 36 million Americans who have earned some college credit, but not an actual degree. More colleges than ever are trying to help these students return to finish what they started. But so far, colleges are better at attracting these learners than helping them get across the finish line. Why is it so hard? What do these students want? What challenges do they face? And what strategies seem to be working?
Listen in for this first peek into how life events and external forces often challenge our well-laid educational plans and what become the motivational forces for us completing University as returning adult learners?
Questions in my head, as we venture through the series.
Will our future education be less about finishing and more about dipping in as and when?
Will we get over the to do list of completing our college degree?
And how can technology (as well as intrinsic motivation) help keep us on track?
We would love to hear from you. Record a quick free voicemail about this episode via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via Twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
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17 Sep 2020
#208 - School leadership in the age of COVID-19
00:23:40
What's in this episode?
This week’s bonus episode is a LIVE recording featuring a discussion I hosted at the FROG20 conference in August with two school leaders talking about how they kept calm and carried on during 2020. Stay listening in if you’re facing the rest of 2020 and feeling like you need a boost or some extra ideas on how to manage the madness.
Nick House, Headteacher at Greenshaw High School | Twitter: @GreenshawHigh
Kate Wragg, Deputy Headteacher at Education and Leadership Trust, and Teacher of Computing and (Cross Trust lead on E-learning and E-safety) | Twitter: @MrsKateWragg
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Listen in and get a feel for The Voctech Podcast, a new show from the makers of The Edtech Podcast, supported by Ufi Charitable Trust & Ufi Ventures.
This new series explores the intersection of adult learning and tech, including, careers and HR tech, the skills gap and training, diverse workforces and new modes of working, and the foundations for up-skilling and re-skilling.
Get involved and don't forget to share with friends!
👉👉👉 You can also check out ournewsletter and medium site to keep up to date with episode content.
The existing Edtech Podcast show will continue alongside, covering “ed” and “tech” from early years, K-12, to Higher Ed and beyond.
In this trailer;
Sky News Clip interviewing Chief Executive of UK tech firm Sage
CBS This Morning Clip on Virtual Reality Training
WEF Press Conference Clip: 1 Million Workers Targeted in Tech Re-skilling Drive feat. Bill McDermott, Chief Executive Officer, SAP, Germany.
Clip from NEW BUILDERS, a Ministry of Information Film made by Paul Rotha Productions 1944, for the Building Apprenticeship and Training Council via Periscope Films
A-Level Results Day 2018 - ITV News Clip with Sophie Adelman of WhiteHat Apprenticeships
BBC News Clip feat. Theresa May Q&A at Augar Review launch
Rajeeb Dey MBE - Founder & CEO - Learnerbly
Dr Becky Sage, CEO, Interactive Scientific
Steve Wheeler is a Learning Innovations Consultant and former Associate Professor of Learning Technologies at Plymouth University
Chloe Holmes is the Learning and Progress Manager at WhiteHat
Stefan Cecchini, Head of Projects at the National College for Nuclear in the UK
21 Oct 2019
#167 - On Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Learning and Development
00:50:44
What's in this episode?
In this week's VocTech Series episode on Artificial Intelligence and Corporate Learning and Development, we are in conversation with Henrietta Palmer, Learning Solutions Manager at TUI Group, a leading and innovative travel brand in the UK.
Henrietta talks about the use of Artificial Intelligence to curate learning across a large organisation with keen goals. We talk about innovating in real-world scenarios, proving ROI, and adapting to change. Skip to minute 17 to catch our interview.
Before my chat with Henrietta, I speak to Harley Richardson of the organising committee, AoI Education Forum, who is putting together the AI in Ed panel at the Battle of Ideas.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
Big thanks to Ufi Charitable trust and Ufi Ventures who made this new series possible. Go and check out their fine work in developing innovative vocational technology to support workplace skills development.
Happy listening!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
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09 Sep 2020
#207 - Campus reopening: how to support your institution and students
01:15:48
What's in this episode?
COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the student experience. This first episode in the second season of our "The Edge" series, supported by Salesforce.Org, is all about the campus reopening and how to best support both the institution and students during this time.
Four guests share ideas around contact tracing, wellbeing, hybrid teaching and learning, and innovative student experience. Expect synchronous student cooking classes with a Michelin star chef, musings on student numbers and a changed admissions landscape, and technology investments made to support students and faculty long-term.
You can follow the conversation using #EdtechEdge and #edtechpod.
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Dr Ghazwa Alwani-Starr, Pro Vice-Chancellor Strategy, Planning and Partnerships and Director of Property, University of London | Twitter: @AlwaniStarrG
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06 May 2019
#147 - Next Billion Edtech Prize Winners
00:58:40
What's in this episode?
Hi everyone, and welcome back to The Edtech Podcast the show about improving the dialogue between “ed” and “tech” for better innovation and impact.
This week we throwback to my visit to Dubai in March. I was visiting the Global Education and Skills Forum, which hosts the global teacher prize and the next billion prize. The next billion edtech prize was launched by the The Varkey Foundation to recognise the most innovative technology destined to have a radical impact on education in low income and emerging world countries. In this episode you'll hear from;
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
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07 Dec 2022
#254 - Why the 9 to 5 is limiting our ability to learn and grow
00:42:24
Hello everyone and welcome back to The Edtech Podcast, where we aim to improve the dialogue between “ed” and “tech” for better innovation and impact.
In this NEW series, sponsored by WorkTripp, we are looking at all things Future of Work, and how that intersects with learning, leadership, humans, and technology.
In this episode, I'm chatting with the authors of WorkStyle, and the founders of Hoxby, Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst. We explore:
Why 2014 is a magical year for the "future of work"
The role of technology in the "future of work"
Why flexible working and the 4 day working week still track back to the 9 to 5
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11 Apr 2023
#265 - Internet Safety for Children
00:53:18
Karine and Rose meet this week to discuss Internet Safety with Edurio's Ernest Jenavs, and Natterhub's Caroline Allams. The group will explore Edurio's Autumn 2022 report on Pupil Safeguarding, the reaction to Ofsted Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman's 'surprise' over mobile phone use in-class, and discuss good technology role-modelling for young people.
11 May 2020
#193 - Transitioning Into a New World of Work with Jane Oates of WorkingNation
00:35:34
What's in this episode?
This week's episode is all about how economies and industry are transitioning into a new world of work. We throwback to a recording from last year with Jane Oates from WorkingNation where we talk about everything from massive investment in training employees, how working cultures are not interchangeable, and why supporting each other through change is important. These are all subjects that have been thrust into the foreground by Coronavirus in a way that has made us sit up and listen more urgently than any discussion on automation has before.
Plus, an update from our listeners on how teaching, learning and remote work have developed a few months on from operating in a world with Coronavirus.
Thank you Ufi Voctech Trust for supporting this series and vocational skills development in the UK through their investments and grants in vocational technology. You can check out their work here.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
Enjoy!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Jane Oates, President, WorkingNation | Twitter: @oates_jane
Listener Contributors
Dr. Edward Tse, VP Strategy & Content and Co-Owner, Nuiteq | Twitter: @DoctorET
Cameron Mirza, Director, Nottingham Trent University UAE & Bett MEA Board Member | Twitter: @cmirza1
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04 Dec 2019
#175 - On Vocational Reform in New Zealand
00:45:44
What's in this episode?
Welcome to the next episode of our #voctechpodcast series!
This week I’m in conversation with Shaun Gear from the Ministry of Education in New Zealand to talk about vocational learning reform. We talk about improving standards in vocational learning, how to involve the wider community outside of training providers and employers, and creating hubs of best practice.
Thank you to Ufi Voctech Trust for supporting this series and vocational skills development in the UK, through their investments and grants in vocational technology. You can check out their work here.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
Happy listening!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Shaun Gear, Integration Adviser - Employer, Business and Industry - Parent Information and Community Intelligence, Ministry of Education New Zealand | Twitter: @ShaunGear1
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22 Jun 2020
#196 - The Case for Vocational Technology – Part 2: Build Back Better
01:02:24
What's in this episode?
In conversation are an insight and data specialist on the new economy, an investor in vocational learning technology, and a specialist in supporting executive leadership and teams development. In true podcast fashion, there are tea slurps, baby cries and computer dings, in amongst the gems about specific training to working online, more creative online working tools, and supporting employees wellbeing with all the change hitting us at present. This episode is about building back better and takes its starting point from a World Economic Forum article on 5 ways to reset labour markets after coronavirus recovery, which you can find shared on our show notes. Plus, a few listener messages from WISE and Education Technology.
Thank you Ufi Voctech Trust for supporting this series and vocational skills development in the UK through their investments and grants in vocational technology. You can check out their work here.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
Enjoy!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Richard Male, Investor, Ufi Ventures | Twitter: @richardmale
Dr. Vesselina Stefanova Ratcheva, Insights Lead – New Metrics, Platform for the New Economy and Society, World Economic Forum | Twitter: @Vessisr
Gordon Bateman, Chief Executive Officer, CRSI | Twitter: @crsiltd
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09 Nov 2020
#214 - What is next for VocTech and FE?
00:55:22
What's in this episode?
This episode of the VocTech Podcast was hosted live as part of Ufi VocTech Trust's 'Week of VocTech'. We are chatting with our guests to discuss the near and long-term future for vocational technology and further education.
How can the crisis be a pivot point for lifelong learning? What practical examples are there for how industry and F.E are using technology now to set them up for a changed world of employment and skills development?
You'll hear the different perspectives and demands on our guests plus questions and comments from our live audience.
Enjoy and follow the conversation using#VocTechPodcastand#WeekOfVocTech.
Shane Guildford, a FE Hospitality Chef/Lecturer and PEARSONS Silver Award Winner, TES Finalist, EdTech Innovator and MIE Expert from Cheshire College South and West | Twitter: @shanelegend23
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29 Apr 2021
5 Years, Summer Break, & New Series in the Planning
00:07:28
A quick audio message to say thank you as we reach our fifth birthday as The Edtech Podcast!
Plus, news on our summer break, new series planning for our return in the Autumn 2021, and, how you can get involved!
16 Dec 2022
#256 - EdTech Toys for the Holiday Season
00:49:42
Welcome to this Christmas/Seasonal bonus episode examining evidence-based EdTech in toys for children and young people.
Featuring two hosts from the EDUCATE Ventures Research team, founder Rose Luckin and former headteacher and Chief Education Advisor Karine George, this seasonal special looks at a number of EdTech must-have toys and the questions that should be asked of them by any parent and carer looking to spend their money wisely.
Toys are tools of play, and the educational toy market is booming. Below you can find our list of questions to ask of the technology. Head to our website for details of the toys/models in question to help you hunt down the best deals across the holiday season and whenever you are thinking about EdTech across the rest of the year.
The Questions
User Agency – one of the potential advantages technology brings is the potential for a child to gain some agency – to be in charge. What does this tech do to enable agency?
Versatility – is the toy versatile to meet specific needs? For example, if the child has problems with fine motor skills then small controllers or keyboards may not be the best option? If they are visually impaired, they may need text to speech or a connected refreshable braille display. Ensure the games are age appropriate
Value for Money – will you need to buy additional accessories? Are there subscription costs? How durable is the toy?
Evidence – what evidence exists to say this toy works or has value, and are you convinced by it?
Long-Term Engagement – will this toy or device live past a honeymoon period?
Safety/Ethics – does this toy connect to the internet? If it can then two issues need to be addressed: what can the child access through this device, and what information about the child is being tracked or recorded and how is this being used?
Tell us where you are listening in from
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03 Feb 2022
#237 - How to Capture Knowledge Exchange
00:30:01
What's in this episode?
In this episode, I chat with Emily Devonald, Co-Founder, KEVRI, an early-stage startup focused on making knowledge exchange easier to capture for Universities. We chat about:
Who is responsible for knowledge exchange within Higher Education
Which countries are doing knowledge exchange "well" and what this means for innovation
The effect of the pandemic and Brexit on knowledge exchange in the U.K vs. ROW.
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28 Aug 2019
#160 - Geographic Lotteries of Learning
00:48:04
What's in this episode?
Hello everyone!
Thank you for being patient as we took a break over the Summer and prepared for our next season.
This week we throwback to a second recording from this year’s WISE Summit in Paris. In this episode you’ll hear from two speakers on the topic of the future of learning;
Heidi Harju-Luukkainen, Professor, Nord University
Angel Investor, Khaled Helioui
We look at the impact of genetic disposition and geographic lotteries on learning, on the double edged sword of international rankings and the problem with coercion as the basis of learning. We explore how to measure impact without creating norms and exclusivity.
Stay in touch and have a great week!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Prof. Heidi Harju-Luukkainen holds a Ph.D. in education, a special education teacher qualification and a qualification in leadership and management from Finland.
Khaled Helioui is an active angel investor having backed mission driven startups such as Uber (first European investor), Deliveroo, Student.com, Werlabs, Soldo, Upgraded, Yumi or Bolt.
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12 Mar 2019
#141 - For those who want to shape the world, not just fit in
00:59:25
What's in this episode?
Hello listeners from Digifest!
This week i'm in conversation with Ed Fidoe of the London Interdisciplinary School on launching a new style of degree University set up to tackle "humanity’s most complex problems". We also throw back to an old recording from Innovate Edtech with a Governor and edtech entrepreneur, a teacher and a dyslexic learning technology advisor in conversation about what makes great learner experience design. Big shout out to Cool Initiatives for sponsoring this episode.
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Ed Fidoe of the London Interdisciplinary School | Twitter: @weareLIS
David Fudge, Art and Design Teacher, School21 (at time of recording) | Twitter: @school21_uk
Tim Moore from the Harris Federation and We Are Human | Twitter: @timdmoore
Sophie Deen from Detective Dot | Twitter: @detectivedot
Enrico Riva from the British Dyslexia Association | Twitter: @BDAdyslexia
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06 Mar 2024
#276 - AI, Metacognition, and Neuroscience
00:55:51
What's in this episode?
Continuing our new 5-episode miniseries on AI in education with the second episode on AI's relationship to neuroscience and metacognition, host Professor Rose Luckin is joined by Dr Steve Fleming, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, UK, and Jessica Schultz, Academic & Curriculum Director at the San Roberto International School in Monterrey, Mexico. This episode and our series are generously sponsored by Nord Anglia Education.
Metacognition, neuroscience and AI aren’t just buzzwords but areas of intense research and innovation that will help learners in ways that until now have been unavailable to the vast majority of people. The technologies and approaches that study in these domains unlocks, however, must not be siloed or made inaccessible to public understanding. Real work must be done to bring these areas together and we are tremendously excited that this podcast will present a great opportunity to showcase what inroads have been made, where, why, and how.
Guests:
Dr Steve Fleming, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
Neuroscience and AI are well-respected fields with a massive amount of research underpinning their investigation and practices, but they are also two very shiny buzzwords that the public likely only understands in the abstract (and the words may even be misapplied to things that aren't based in neuroscience or AI). Can you tell our listeners what they are, how they intersect with one another, and what benefits their crossover can provide in the realms of skills and knowledge?
Can we use one field, AI, or Neuroscience, to talk about the other, to better 'sell' the idea of the other field of study, and in this way, drastically raise the bar of what is possible to detect, uncover and assess, in education, using these domains?
In practical terms,how do we use AI and neuroscience to measure what might be considered 'unmeasurable' in learning? What data is required, what expertise in the team, or in a partner organisation, can be leveraged, who can be responsible for doing this in an educational or training institution? What data or competencies or human resource do they need access to?
Sponsorship
Thank you so much to this series' sponsor: Nord Anglia Education, the world’s leading premium international schools organisation. They make every moment of your child’s education count. Their strong academic foundations combine world-class teaching and curricula with cutting-edge technology and facilities, to create learning experiences like no other. Inside and outside of the classroom, Nord Anglia Education inspires their students to achieve more than they ever thought possible.
"Along with great academic results, a Nord Anglia education means having the confidence, resilience and creativity to succeed at whatever you choose to do or be in life." - Dr Elise Ecoff, Chief Education Officer, Nord Anglia Education
06 Dec 2023
#274 - Managing Your School's Digital Transformation
00:57:59
Digital Transformation! Digital Strategy! Professional Education! What do they mean, and how do we implement them in a school? In today's episodewe’re very lucky to have on three wonderful guests who operate at the intersection of educational practice and the leveraging of technology for a better learning experience. They are:
Associate Professor Jane Hunter, School of International Studies and Education, University of Technology, Sydney
Each of these guests has a long history of working within the education space, from engineering and installing the hardware and catering to the evolving demands of schools, to leveraging the technology as a communal bridge between parents, teachers and students, and finally to researching and understanding the added value such technologies provide for teachers and learners and how they might successfully incorporate their use into daily practice.
Talking points and questions include:
The evolving demands of the classroom – what futureproofing and future planning exists in each of your spaces to accommodate new trends and developments? For those catering to the hardware, does the school or college determine what you make, or are they, and the ways their teachers and learners perform, conditioned by you? What space is there for reciprocity between the EdTech maker and the EdTech user?
Teacher professional education – how important is this? Surely a learning tool lives and dies by the amount of training and ‘after-sales support’ is provided to practitioners? What is the extent of the refusal by a teacher or department to adopt the technology and how is this overcome? Is it just waving statistics about time-saving and cost-saving in their faces or is there a form of trust that must be engendered?
Digital strategy – this means different things to different stakeholders. What are the commonalities that should be agreed upon for successful rollout of technology? Obviously contextual factors are key to each school, but what are the non-negotiables?And with regard to developments like generative AI and other future trends we can’t even predict yet, what kinds of guardrails need to be in place with teachers, leaders, and the developers of the tech to ensure ongoing supportive relationships with stakeholders. What foundations should be in place to support digital transformation no matter the bumps in the road ahead?
Welcome to this penultimate episode in our Education 4.0 series with friends at Jisc, looking at the changing world of education in the fourth industrial era.
This week we ask “Who can help embed new technologies and working practices?” as we look at the pioneers and settlers needed to create change in education.
We hope you enjoy this episode. We are taking a break over the summer, but can't wait to bring you final episode in our Education 4.0 series, plus the launch of our new series in September. 😎🌞🎧
Enjoy, and don't forget to message in or post using #edu4_0!
Happy Summer Holidays!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Dave Coplin, Author, Alchemist, Catalyst and Founder of the Envisioners| Twitter: @dcoplin
Sue Attewell, Head of Change FE & Skills, Jisc | Twitter: @AttewellSue
Chris Cobb, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Operations) and Chief Operating Officer, University of London | Twitter: @ChrisCobbLondon
Andy McGregor, Deputy Chief Innovation Officer, Jisc | Twitter: @andymcg
Alexander Iosad, Projects and Partnerships Lead, Emerge Education | Twitter: @simplescholar
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16 Jun 2019
#151 - A former & current MoE, award-winning teachers, and an edtech org. passionate about future skills
00:38:31
Hello everyone.
As we speak, it’s London Edtech Week in the UK so to celebrate we are putting out an episode of The Edtech Podcast every day! PHEW!
You’ll be hearing from a mixture of amazing teachers, Ministries of Education, edtech companies, Sleep specialists and much more recorded all over the world.
If you enjoy listening, give us a shout out on twitter @podcastedtech and share the London Edtech Week hashtag #edtechweekldn #edtechweek.
Today;
This episode was recorded at this year's GESF.
Anjali Tiwary, Founder & CEO, Augmented Learning, on Augli.
Yasmin Amin, Chemistry Teacher, SMK La Salle, Malaysia
Cameron Mirza, Office of President, University of Bahrain
Don't forget, if you want to support our work you can donate on the website www.theedtechpodcast.com.
Normal service resumes next week. Enjoy!
10 Mar 2023
#264 - Understanding EdTech Buyers
00:48:10
Bett is a gigantic trade show, with over 30,000 people coming to East London’s ExCel Centre every year, and 600 resource and solution providers exhibiting in its massive halls. Amongst the new products, innovations, conversations and meetings, however, is the public, with that overriding question: what can I find here? This week, we invite a teacher, educational technology researcher, and founder and CEO, to answer why they return to the show year after year, and what questions they ask of the technology on display, and the predictions made in the heart of the Bett arenas.
30 Jan 2020
#184 - Lessons from a Lifelong Learner
00:36:59
What's in this episode?
Welcome to the newest episode of our #voctechpodcast series!
This week’s episode is all about lessons from a lifelong learner. You’ll hear from the exuberant Cath Brown, the Open University Students Association President and a prolific learner both online and offline. Listen in to be inspired about using technology in learning, the importance of good mentors, and flexible learning from 3 am to much later in our adult lives.
Our reporter, Ian Hurd also features and is in conversation with Emma Ball, Head of Learning Technologies and Tom Davies, Learning Technologist at Solihull College and University Centre. In this chat, you’ll hear all about their work in virtual reality and skills development.
Thank you to Ufi Voctech Trust for supporting this series and vocational skills development in the UK, through their investments and grants in vocational technology. You can check out their work here.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
ENJOY, SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW!!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Cath Brown, President, OU Students Association & Lifelong Learner | Twitter: @NotoriousCath
Ian Hurd, Reporter and Presenter at The Edtech Podcast
Emma Ball, Head of Learning Technologies and Tom Davies, Learning Technologist, Solihull College and University Centre | Twitter: @SolihullCollege
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12 Nov 2019
#171 - Equity, Equality & Diversity in Higher Ed Leadership
00:54:52
What's in this episode?
Hello everyone and welcome to the second episode of our "The Edge" series, supported by Salesforce.Org. This series is all about new ways of doing things in Higher Education leadership in an era of dizzying advanced computing.
This week, we look at Equity, Equality & Diversity in Higher Ed Leadership. We delve into inclusive models of leadership, the role of digital in supporting or aggravating existing inequities in leadership, and what current leaders think will change the dial in diversity in Higher Education at the top, to the benefit of the sector.
You can follow the conversation using #EdtechEdge and #podcastedtech
Enjoy and have a great week!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Karen A. Longman, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Higher Education, Program Director, Ph.D. in Higher Education, Azusa Pacific University, author of Perspectives on Women’s Higher Education Leadership from Around the World | Twitter: @KLongman
Janet Rafner, Director of Learning at ScienceAtHome, Center for Hybrid Intelligence at Aarhus University | Twitter: @jrafner
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22 Jul 2020
#200 - A Conversation with Chip Paucek, CEO of 2U
00:40:31
What's in this episode?
"You can do a tonne online, but it would be great to have a beer."
In the first of our new conversations making sense of the world with Covid, I speak to the CEO of 2U, Chip Paucek. We talk about why the University campus isn’t going to disappear anytime soon, what makes remote learning high-quality, and what it's like to experience the highs and lows of being an edtech CEO and entrepreneur.
Plus, we made it to episode 200. Thanks for listening everyone.
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23 Aug 2020
#204 - Preparing for a successful September return
01:21:42
What's in this episode?
This week’s episode shares the work of edtech demonstrator schools and colleges in England. The EdTech Demonstrator Programme is a network of schools and colleges across England who exhibit effective practice in the use of technology. The Demonstrator Schools and Colleges involved in the programme provide professional development and support, focusing initially on supporting the effective delivery of remote teaching practices to schools and colleges across the country.
In this episode, guided by Kriss Baird, London Regional Lead - Dfe EdTech Demonstrators Programme, you’ll hear about
• Ideas to support senior leaders and educators as schools manage social distancing in the school or college learning context.
• Consolidating online support for those students unable to return to schools and colleges
• Building on progress made with remote learning
• And, Ensuring the momentum for strategic change in the use of technology is maintained in the autumn term and beyond
Plus, Dr. Vicki Cameron, Chief Education Officer, PeopleBench, on our guest blog...
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07 Sep 2020
TRAILER - Season 2 of The Edge (our HigherEd Podcast Series)
00:03:15
A peek into our new HigherEd series, with Salesforce.Org. This series takes a fresh look at higher education and digital transformation.
Clips used in this trailer to "set the scene" of HigherEd in 2020;
Iain Harper, Head of Digital, Oxford University Business School, Digital Transformation at the World's Oldest University @ Salesforce Higher Ed Summit
Audio of U.K Student protests over A-Level exam results in 2020, YouTube
WHO director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announcing COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020
CBS Boston report, Trump administration reverses policy on international students studying in the U.S, YouTube
BBC Newsnight, How are exam results being calculated this year? Clip with Sam Freedman, former Department of Education Advisor
BBC Newsnight, How are exam results being calculated this year? Clip with Deputy Vice-Chancellor Reading University, Professor Parveen Yaqoob
July 30th 2020, Arizona State University Weekly Briefing on Campus Reentry plan with University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins
Chris Headleand, Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln, on The Edtech Podcast
HEPI & select committee webinars with Michelle Donelan MP, Minister for Universities
The Edge: Accelerating Higher Education, isthe second season from The Edtech Podcast, supported bySalesforce.org, and exploring the intersection of higher education and digital transformation.
You can follow the conversation using #EdTechEdge and #edtechpod and subscribe by searching for The Edtech Podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever else you listen.
Salesforce.org is the social impact centre of Salesforce focused on partnering with the global community of change-makers. They provide access to powerful technology that empowers change-makers to build a better world. Salesforce.org’s Education Cloud gives Higher Education institutions a single, shared view of students, alumni and staff in an integrated CRM platform to create personalised experiences at scale - transforming learner engagements into lifelong relationships.
11 Feb 2020
#185 - University and Industry, What is next?
01:10:21
What's in this episode?
Hello everyone and welcome to the sixth episode of our "The Edge" series, supported by Salesforce.Org. This series is all about new ways of doing things in Higher Education leadership.
In this episode we pick apart University and Industry, exploring learning economics in an age of perpetual upskilling, the unique strengths of University and Industry respectively, and to what extent established Universities are limited on how they can evolve through regulation and red tape.
You can follow the conversation using #EdtechEdge and #edtechpodcast
Happy listening!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Graham Brown-Martin, Founder, Learning Without Frontiers (LWF) | Twitter: @GrahamBM
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25 Feb 2021
#223 - What Matters in Edtech: Leadership
00:52:50
Welcome to the latest episode of the GLOBAL edition of our What Matters in Edtech Series, our podcast collaboration with Bett. This podcast series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.
Thank you to Bett for supporting this series and to FormAssembly for supporting this episode.
What's in this episode?
This episode is all about leadership and is a timely reflection on how we can bolster our resolve and communicate a shared vision during radically changing times. In short, it’s all about people and you don’t have to be an automaton, in fact, you’re allowed to be yourself to lead effectively.
Tune in to hear what three factors are essential to think about for modern leaders, which 5 soft skills are indicators of premium salaries, and why artificial intelligence crafted classical music makes us feel uneasy.
Follow the conversation, share and comment using #edtechpod and #Bett2021.
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25 Aug 2022
#248 – Scaling Learning with Laura Warnier of GoStudent
Laura Warnier, the Chief Growth Officer at online tutoring platform GoStudent
We talk about:
The factors involved in GoStudent’s rapid expansion – investment, team, zeitgeist.
Laura’s view on network effects and membership models
Near to peer tutoring, support and engagement
Plus, some updates on edtech events, reports, and other news.
13 Nov 2020
#215 - VocTech in the Criminal Justice System
00:44:38
What's in this episode?
This episode was hosted live as part of Ufi VocTech Trust’s ‘Week of VocTech’. Ufi Voctech Trust champions the power of technology to improve skills for work. They do this through various grantees and investments, and more recently through funding specifically to ensure the continuity of vocational learning in response to COVID.
This episode looks at some of the projects Ufi Voctech Trust have been supporting that are involved in vocational education across the criminal justice system.
You’ll hear about:
Providing access to learning environments
Tailoring and adapting learning
Assessing learning
Creating employment opportunities
Enjoy and follow the conversation using#VocTechPodcastand#WeekOfVocTech.
People
Patrick Dunn, Project Account Manager, Ufi VocTech Trust
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30 Sep 2020
#210 - Simulation tech for workforce training
00:30:51
What's in this episode?
In this episode we throwback to a past recording chatting about the power of role-play and simulation technology in hostile environment training and international development.
This episode was recorded at the start of 2020 in pre-COVID times so you will also hear an update from one of our guests, Mike Todd, reflecting on what has changed since our recording.
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via. twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
11 Jun 2024
#279 - Can We Trust in AI for Education? (AI in Ed Miniseries)
00:46:37
Coming to the fifth and final episode of our miniseries on AI for education, host Professor Rose Luckin is joined by Timo Hannay, Founder of SchoolDash, and Lord David Puttnam, Independent Producer, Chair of Atticus Education, and former member of the UK parliament's House of Lords. This episode and our series have been generously sponsored by Nord Anglia Education.
Today we’re going to look ahead to the near and far future of AI in education, and ask what might be on the horizon that we can’t even predict, and what we can do as humans to proof ourselves against disruptions and innovations that have, like the Covid pandemic and ChatGPT's meteoric rise, rocked our education systems, and demanded we do things differently.
Slow Reaction to AI: Despite generative AI's decade-long presence and EdTech's rise, the education sector's response to tools like ChatGPT has been surprisingly delayed. Why?
Learning from Our AI Response: Can our current reaction to generative AI serve as a case study for adapting to future tech shifts? It's a test of our educational system's resilience
AI's Double-Edged Sword: With ChatGPT's rapid rise, are EdTech companies risking harm by using AI without fully understanding it? Think Facebook's data misuse in the Rohingya massacre
Equipping Teachers for AI: Who can educators trust for AI knowledge? We need frameworks to guide them, as AI literacy is now as crucial as internet literacy
Digital Natives ≠ AI-Ready: Today's youth grew up online, but does that prepare them for sophisticated, accessible AI? Not necessarily
07 Oct 2019
#165 - Dr Becky Sage, CEO, Interactive Scientific (VR & AR Collaborative Learning)
00:56:36
What's in this episode?
In this weeks VocTech Series episode, on collaborative drug discovery through VR and AR, we speak to Becky Sage, CEO at Interactive Scientific.
Becky is a woman of many talents and is also an actress & award-winning gymnast! We chat about the long-haul marathon race of being an entrepreneur, the role of upbringing in work ethics, and different ways of developing scientific understanding.
Big thanks to Ufi Charitable trust and Ufi Ventures who made this new series possible. Go and check out their fine work in developing innovative vocational technology to support workplace skills development.
Happy listening!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Dr. Becky Sage, CEO, Interactive Scientific | Twitter: @becky_sage
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10 Aug 2022
#247 - The Future of Work
00:46:40
Hello everyone and welcome back to The Edtech Podcast, where we aim to improve the dialogue between “ed” and “tech” for better innovation and impact.
This week’s episode is part of our series collaboration with Bett, supported by Pearson.
In this episode we are focused on The Future of Work, exploring:
Significant trends and drivers for The Future of Work, including push and pull factors for employers and young people in new employment
Demands and expectations in the workplace and how this is changing how we prepare young people for the world of work
Interesting sector-specific case studies in real-world learning and reskilling.
Attributes for success, and the role of technology and humans in the new world of work, including emotional state and learner motivation
I'm in conversation with:
Miriam Partington, a future of work reporter at Sifted, a publication covering European startups and technology
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16 Dec 2019
#177 - David Shull, Head of Handshake UK and Europe
00:42:44
What's in this episode?
Welcome to the next episode of our #voctechpodcast series!
This week I’m in conversation with David Shull, Head of Handshake UK and Europe. Handshake work to make the student employability space or “bridge to work” better. In this episode, recorded earlier in the year, David and I chat about starting Handshake, the pain points for employers aiming to recruit students, and creating more opportunities for students no matter where they are located.
We also have some snippets from Ian Hurd, who was out and about at the recent Ufi Voctech Showcase, chatting to MegaNexus, Nissan and Pembrokeshire College.
Thank you to Ufi Voctech Trust for supporting this series and vocational skills development in the UK, through their investments and grants in vocational technology. You can check out their work here.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
Happy listening!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
David Shull, Head, Handshake UK and Europe | Twitter: @dsshull
Ian Hurd, Reporter and Presenter at The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @Ian_R_Hurd
Richard West, Meganexus @meganexusltd
Dr Geoff Elliott, Learning and Technology Development Manager, Pembrokeshire College @PembsCollege
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18 Nov 2019
#172 - Investment in Lifelong Learning
01:03:14
What's in this episode?
It's that time again! Welcome to the next episode of our #voctechpodcast series!
This week we are looking at investment in lifelong learning and workforce development. We chat with Marissa Lowman about Village Capital’s Future of Work and Learning accelerator program and Marissa’s background in early edtech ecosystem building. We then hear from Owen Henkel at Pearson Ventures, on the importance of venture capitalists having expertise in their investment areas. We also find out about Marissa’s and Owen’s past formative experiences in education.
Thank you to Ufi Charitable trust and Ufi Ventures for supporting this series and vocational skills development in the UK, through their investments and grants in vocational technology. You can check out their work here.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
Happy listening!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Marissa Lowman, Head of Future of Work Practice, Village Capital | Twitter: @marissalowman
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13 Sep 2019
162 - Competency-Based Education in China
00:37:13
What's in this episode?
Hello everyone!
In this week’s episode, we travel nearly 5000 miles from the UK to China, to talk about increasing interest in competency based education. Plus, a listener news item on a new partnership on UK Maths Edtech.
First up, you’ll hear Edtech Podcast listener Sonnie Tan interviewing the Founder of KitCat, Michael Huang. In this interview with Sonnie, Michael talks about how he think the Gaokao exam will slowly develop to recognise student’s more creative needs, as well as knowledge of cutting edge technologies, and how to apply them, such as AI.
Our second interview is with Yiwei Zhang, Director of International EdTech Projects at Rayee. Rayee is a knowledge provider on education within China, with a focus on well-rounded education rather than the exam-orientated K-12 after school tutoring market that you may have heard a lot about. In this recording you’ll hear from Yiwei about how shopping malls are providing space for students to broaden their learning, whilst their parents enjoy some recreation. What do you think about this set up?
Stay in touch and have a great week!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Michael Huang 黄锐诚, Founder, Kacademy and Kitcat
Yiwei Zhang, Director of International EdTech Projects at Rayee.
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27 Jan 2020
#183 - Skills
00:37:48
Welcome to the sixth and final episode of our What Matters in Edtech series, supported by Bett. This series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.
Thank you to Pearson for sponsoring this week's episode.
What's in this episode?
This episode was recorded LIVE at #Bett2020 and is all about skills. We take a top-level view of the skills agenda both here and internationally, looking into why there is a disconnect between education and skills requirements and where the UK stands on solving this issue compared to the rest of the world. We then drill into some of the vocational learning experiences which are attempting to take on the skills gap.
You can follow the conversation using #edtechpodcast and #Bett2020
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Cindy Rampersaud, Senior Vice President, BTEC and Apprenticeships, Pearson UK | Twitter: @RampersaudCindy
Ben Blackledge, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, WorldSkills UK | Twitter: @BenBlackledge1
Sarah Taunton, Acting Head of Pathways and Enrichment, Ark | Twitter: @SERTaunton
Helen Hall, UK Recruitment & Partnerships Director, Oxford Brookes University (University Alliance member) | Twitter: @HelenLHall
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14 Sep 2023
#272 - Is Attention the Currency of Learning?
00:56:54
Rose hosts Daisy Christodoulou, Director of Education at No More Marking in the EdTech Podcast Zoom studio this week, discussing AI regulation, evidence and effectiveness, and student outcomes in AI assessment, and what we think the future of AI-powered education might look like, and why!
In late March of this year, Professor Rose Luckin and Daisy Christodoulou spoke at the UK parliament’s Governance of Artificial Intelligence oral evidence session for education, and the discussion that took place was passionate and exciting. A link to the video of the session is below in the Show Notes if you’d like to watch it yourself, but a lot of ground was covered, yet not as much as they wished!
The interest in AI and its governance is very intense at the moment. The UK government had published a white paper setting out their proposed approach to the governance of AI and the indication from the paper was that rather than give responsibility for AI governance to a single new AI regulator, it intended to empower existing regulators, and that there were several that existed in the education sector already.Other points raised during the session included the idea of teaching a degree of scepticism in the public’s understanding of AI, meaning that the public should not believe everything that something like ChatGPT, a large language model, returns, for instance, when queried. Concerns about the speed of AI development were raised, there were questions on safeguarding, ethics, transparency, explainability, access to the technology, autonomy, adaptivity and more.
In today’s episode, we’d like to revisit those thoughts on AI regulation, evidence and effectiveness, student outcomes in AI assessment, and what we think the future of AI-powered education might look like and why…
Talking points and questions include:
Quality of evidence for improved student outcomes using AI
The value of assessment: how, when, why, and in what form
More discussion around the future of education with AI’s inclusion, and what we can do now
The Skinny on AI for Education, EVR’s newest publication featuring insights, trends and developments in the world of AI Ed
05 Feb 2021
#222 - Recruitment & Admissions
01:30:59
What's in this episode?
We talk about the complex nature of reaching, recruiting and retaining students in the age of COVID-19 and beyond.
You'll hear about;
Ambitions to reduce the complexity of the admissions process
Extension of virtual open days and events to broaden student intake/and widen participation
Multi-channel approaches to the now complex matrix of student intake and comms across different countries, different pedagogical approaches and different time zones.
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
This episode is part of Season Two of our podcast series 'The Edge: Accelerating Higher Education', supported by Salesforce.org. The Edge takes a fresh look at higher education and digital transformation and this episode is all about recruitment and admissions.
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07 Jun 2019
#150 - The Future of Learning
00:36:47
What's in this episode?
Hello everyone!
This week’s episode is a LIVE recording at WISE Paris earlier this year, where we cover T-shaped learners (broad and deep), what Greek mythology can tell us about the modern day role of the mentor, and how formative culture and parents are in the learning journey. Naturally, we throw in a bit of machine learning, investment and pedagogy for a fine recipe for your ears.
Stay in touch and have a great week!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
François Taddei, Director, Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI) | Twitter: @crisparis
Joel Hellemark, Founder and CEO, Sana Labs | Twitter: @sanalabs
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11 Dec 2020
#218 - What Matters in Edtech: Inclusion, Neurodiversity and SEND
00:34:15
Welcome to the latest episode of the GLOBAL edition of our What Matters in Edtech Series, our podcast collaboration with Bett. This podcast series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.
Thank you to Bett for supporting this series and to FormAssembly for supporting this episode.
What's in this episode?
This week we are looking at SEND and Neurodiversity, specifically;
Personal stories and frustrations
Hopes for change across policy, technology, and education
And, resources and tools for all listeners to help increase accessibility
Follow the conversation, share and comment using #edtechpod and #Bett2021.
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05 May 2023
#267 - What Does a College Degree Mean to a Returning Adult Student? (EdSurge on The Edtech Podcast (Second Acts Series, Episode 3))
00:51:55
Hello everyone and welcome to The Edtech Podcast and this final episode in collaboration with EdSurge.
This is the last episode in a three-part series to explore the nuances of adult lifelong learners and what sparks their return to University.
#149 - Internet of Things & The Intelligent Campus
00:42:48
What's in this episode?
Welcome to episode four of the Education 4.0 series co-curated with Jisc. This week’s episode is all about how universities and colleges are thinking big with tech to improve their student and staff experiences on campus.
Enjoy! and don't forget to message in or post using #edu4_0!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Sue Attewell, Head of Change - Further Education (FE) and Skills, Jisc | Twitter: @AttewellSue
Jon Cole, Head of Management Information Services, Morley College | Twitter: @morleycollege
Dr. Marios Angelopoulos, Principal Academic in Computing, Bournemouth University | Twitter: @bournemouthuni
Duncan Peberdy, Senior Lead - Digital Learning Spaces, Jisc | Twitter: @duncanpeberdy
Dr. Sajjad Hussain, Lecturer, Glasgow College UESTC (Systems Power & Energy) | Twitter: @UofGEngineering
Hayley E. Hanson, Partner, Husch Blackwell | Twitter: @HuschBlackwell
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09 Jan 2023
#257 - Deep Skills in the Age of the Portfolio Career
00:44:32
Welcome to the second episode in a series produced by Professor Rose Luckin's EDUCATE Ventures Research, exploring 'Evidence-Based EdTech', and hosted on The Edtech Podcast
This mini-series connects, combines, and highlights leading expertise and opinion from the worlds of EdTech, AI, Research, and Education, helping teachers, learners, and technology developers get to grips with ethical learning tools that are led by the evidence.
For this episode, we examinethe state of technology in work, training, and mentorship, and ask what role evidence plays when we are dealing with environments where (usually) productivity is the thing that’s measured.
Is productivity for the sake of it good? How do we know the technology that the current and future workforce encounters, benefits them? As many roles demand a more complex skill set, and fluency in technology, is there a risk we’re leaving people behind?What do employability, recruitment, and skills look like in the age of the portfolio career?
We'll be asking:
Are the skills, the ways of working, ways of thinking, ways of measuring success, that schoolsteach young people,appropriate for today’s world of work?
How we balance human intelligence in the workplace with, broadly, ‘machine intelligence’;that is how we work with and support the human learner or worker, with the tech that many workplaces ask us to use
What do we mean by ‘deep skills/reskilling/upskilling’, and this idea that people aren’t just sticking to one role, one organisation or type of work for 20, 30, 50 years?
And most importantly, what evidence is there to help us understand what young people need and what can be done to effectively prepare young people for their ever-changing futures?
Thank you to Learnosity for sponsoring this episode, and for supporting the Evidence-Based EdTech series on the EdTech Podcast.
14 Jan 2020
#180 - 1001 Student Experiences
01:04:09
What's in this episode?
Hello everyone and welcome to the fifth episode of our "The Edge" series, supported by Salesforce.Org. This series is all about new ways of doing things in Higher Education leadership.
This week, we are talking about all things student experience. In an effort to dispel the myth of the “traditional student’ we talk to a range of guests about how Universities are adapting to diverse student needs, what support systems should not be taken for granted, and the dual role of tutor and technology in helping students to achieve.
You can follow the conversation using #EdtechEdge and #edtechpodcast
Happy listening and have a fantastic week!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Warren Stanislaus, PHD Student at Oxford University | Twitter: @warren_desu
Seeta Bhardwa, Student Content Editor, Times Higher Ed | Twitter: @THEUniAdvice
Dr Emily McIntosh, Director of Learning, Teaching and Student Experience, Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement, Middlesex University, Co-Author, Effective Personal Tutoring in Higher Education| Twitter: @emilythemac
Mukund Desibhatla, Agents of Change Student Leadership Podcast, University of Connecticut
Sarah Knight, Head of Change, Student Experience, Jisc| Twitter: @sarahknight
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25 Aug 2023
#271 - Cutting Through the Noise on AI in Education
00:52:47
Rose plays host to Nina Huntemann, Chief Academic Officer of Chegg, and Lord Jim Knight, in the EdTech Podcast Zoom studio this week, attempting to understand how best to cut through the white noise surrounding AI's hype, misinformation, exaggeration and marketing, and determining just how positive for education AI can be if done responsibly.
In our previous episodes on AI, Rose has been in conversation with universities from the US and the UK, examining what the role is for emerging technologies in higher education and what capacity exists to implement AI effectively. The podcast also saw a contributions from Karine George in discussing whether or not the release and widespread use of ChatGPT has actually done education a favour. Has its proliferation sparked debate about human cognition and limited understandings of AI, or initiated conversations in schools around digital transformation and strategy?
In this episode, we’d like to extend these same thoughts on AI to pedagogic effectiveness in education and academia, and how emerging technologies like AI can be incorporated into plans for companies’ commercial services.
Talking points in today's episode includes:
The development of ethical AI in commercial enterprises and how they ensure their responsible technologies are developed
Tensions between the wealth of AI tools available and regulation of the market and educational use of such technologies
Assessing AI tools' effectiveness
Cutting through the huge amount of hype, headlines, and sensationalism at the heart of the communications and marketing around AI
In this episode, I’m in conversation with the amazing Madeleine Wolf, Founder and CEO, VisionYOU, Germany and Kadri Tuisk, Founder and CEO Clanbeat, Estonia.
We talk about:
What insights you uncover speaking to 300 headteachers in Germany
How to think about the "wicked (complex) problem" of student wellbeing
Plus, listener discounts for upcoming events, accerator deadlines and more...
This is episode three from our new series with the Female Edtech Fellowship, a collaboration between the European Edtech Alliance and Supercharger Ventures to support the growth of the most promising female founders in Europe.
Follow along @EuropeanEdtech #femaleedtechfellowship
21 Mar 2022
#240 - The Future of Work, Connectedness & Learning
00:51:52
Bruce Daisley is a best selling author and technology leader from the UK. He is one of the most respected thought leaders on the subject of workplace culture and the future of work and spent 12 years running Twitter in Europe and previously YouTube in the UK.
In this episode, we chat about challenging the "resilience orthodoxy"and challenging expected work intensity, and recognising the amazing power of groups for learning.
I also share which events The Edtech Podcast will be at in the next few weeks. This is an episode with loads of amazing recommendations - happy listening!
28 Sep 2021
#231 - What happened to Edtech in China?
00:22:31
In this episode, we look at what happened to edtech in China, covering regulations introduced earlier this year that are changing the way that online tutoring is conducted across China, and looking at what that means for the sector, learners and educators more generally. Plus, new jobs, funding, and startup support.
#249 - BONUS EPISODE How Can Technology Enhance Collaborative Learning?
00:18:25
In this bonus episode of The Edtech Podcast, we are in collaboration with Teacher’s Voices, with guest host Nina Alonso, and in partnership with Bold, the digital platform on learning and development.
In this episode, Nina speaks to:
Jason Yip, assistant professor of digital youth at The Information School at the University of Washington and,
Koen Timmers, a lecturer, author and founder of several global educational projects.
Plus, some updates on edtech events, reports, and other news.
We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via Twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.
02 Apr 2024
#277 - AI from a Global Perspective
00:53:10
Continuing our miniseries on AI in education with the third episode centred around a global perspective on AI, host Professor Rose Luckin is joined by Andreas Schleicher of the OECD, Dr Elise Ecoff of Nord Anglia Education, and Dan Worth of Tes. This episode and our series are generously sponsored by Nord Anglia Education.
In our third instalment of this valuable series, we head out beyond the UK and the English-speaking world to get a global perspective on AI, and ask how educators and developers around the world build and engage with AI, and what users, teachers and learners want from the technology that might tell people back home a thing or two. We examine how international use of AI might change the way we engage with AI, and we also ask why they might be doing things differently.
Guests:
Dr Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education & Skills,OECD
What are other countries tech and education ecosystems doing to develop and implement AI?
International considerations of ethics and regulation
Is the first world imposing a way of looking at technology and its innovation on the third world? What assumptions are we making, and are we mindful of the context?
Is the first world restricting innovation through specific regulation to change what technology is being built and how, and who might it benefit?
Skills and competencies development can be driven by the needs of business - what priorities for AI education exhibited by international models could the UK adopt or consider?
Nathalie Lesselin, Founder and CEO, Kokorolingua, from Switzerland
Marie Mérouze, CEO Marbotic, from France
Sari Hurme-Mehtälä, Founder CEO, Kide Science, from Finland
Dominika Gyanyi , Head of Education, BookrKids, from Hungary
We talk about:
The challenge and opportunity of technology in early years, and how to bring it back to hands-on learning
The opportunity to leverage popular culture and storytelling in early years learning
Developing an inherent love of learning without reliance on gamification
This is episode four from our new series with the Female Edtech Fellowship, a collaboration between the European Edtech Alliance and Supercharger Ventures to support the growth of the most promising female founders in Europe.
20 Oct 2022
#251 - Skills development in the gig economy, flexible, and freelance space
00:38:15
What's in this episode?
This week we’re back with our VocTech Podcast, this time looking at skills development in the new world of work.
As we move towards ever more atomised modes of work, is there a risk we don't develop our skills properly, just going from one gig to another?
If we are going to prevent that from happening, what do we need our freelance, flexible or gig economy platforms to look like and to build in? Is this ever likely?
This week we’re back with our VocTech Podcast, exploring these questions with special guests.
Sophie Smallwood,RoleShare - which helps people keep up with work and life healthily.
Helen Gironi,Ufi Ventures - the UK’s specialist investor in EdTech for adults
Christina Palmou, formerly of the Tony Blair Institute - which was set up to help make globalisation work for the many, not the few
Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via Twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram. We'd love to hear your thoughts.
15 Jun 2020
#195 - What Matters in Edtech Middle East and Africa
01:31:08
Welcome to the second episode of the GLOBAL edition of our What Matters in Edtech Series, our podcast collaboration with Bett. This podcast series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.
Thanks to Bett for supporting the series, to Teacherly for sponsoring this week’s episode and to the wonderful Sam Wheeler for leading on interviews while Sophie grapples with her Quaranteenie baby.
What's in this episode?
In this episode, we focus on the Middle East and Africa; you'll hear about the role of tech and community in supporting refugee learning, careers opportunities for girls, flexible working and teacher professional development, and truly hybrid online learning. We are in Dubai, Oman, Kenya and across the UAE.
You can follow the conversation using #edtechpod and #BettMEA
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Sam Wheeler, Presenter at The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @SamanthaRose83
Aastha Das, Founder and CEO at InnoYouth, a young passionate entrepreneur & tech-savvy innovator | Twitter: @aasthadas0510
28:00 - This episode is titled "What Matters in Edtech Middle East and Africa"; What would you say are the defining characteristics of education in the MEA region as you see it?
33:00 - Dr. Sonia Ben Jafaar
35:00 - Working with Industry
38:00 \ 1:00 - As we record this, we are in the midst of the novel coronavirus outbreak; how has this affected your work, that of your colleagues, parents, students. Are there any positives to come out of the situation; what do you think will be long term and what more short-lived?
55:00 - Atif Mahmood Intro
79:00 - What books, resources, people, projects or students are you most inspired by?
Tell us your story
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31 Oct 2019
#168 - Catch up with The National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE).
00:41:54
What's in this episode?
In this week's BONUS episode we throw back to Ian Hurd recording at the graduation of the first cohort of teachers to complete a nationally recognised qualification from the National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE).
Ian is first in conversation with Professor Simon Peyton Jones, the NCCE Chair, and Liza Belozerova, Google.org Program Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Both guests share some good reads and inspirational tech for teachers in this space.
Also in this episode two real-world learning opportunities for students. First, Constance Agyeman, Nesta’s Head of Thriving Communities, introduces the Longitude Explorer Prize focusing on getting a more diverse group of young people into AI, tech and innovation. Next, Sevra Davis, Head of Learning at the Design Museum, talks about Design Ventura, aimed at encouraging design thinking, creativity and business acumen in young people.
Happy listening!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
Ian Hurd, Presenter, The Edtech Podcast | Twitter @Ian_R_Hurd
Constance Agyeman, Nesta’s Head of Thriving Communities,@ConstanceAgyema
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Read more at https://theedtechpodcast.libsyn.com/#U0B5LfxMkQRUBdV2.99
10 Jan 2021
#220 - Helping Frontline Workers (Time Invention of 2020)
00:47:00
What's in this episode?
We are talking to the inspirational Dr Alex Young about the power of immersive tools to enhance learning and improve performance, especially in socially distanced settings. Virti was nominated as one of TIME’s inventions of 2020, so listen in to find out why. Also,
Why snowstorms can be responsible for amazing innovations
Why the future of immersive technology may be all about the data and can be used for teacher training, healthcare and retail as just a few examples
Why reading biographies can arm you with amazing virtual mentors
And why vocational technology is more about co-creation, not just generic SAAS platform business models
The episode is part of The VocTech Podcast series and is supported by Ufi VocTech Trust.
Join in the conversation using #VocTechPodcast and #VocTech.
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15 Mar 2020
#189 - Talent Pipeline, Technology and Training
00:44:40
What's in this episode?
This week we throw-back to a "pre-coronavirus" recording with Hector MacAulay, Managing Director at international infrastructure and manufacturing company Balfour Beatty. We chat about talent pipeline, technology and training and why getting up at the crack of dawn in your first teenage job sets you up for life.
Following on from our chat with Hector, Ian Hurd is out and about at this year’s Bett and you’ll hear from a range of attendees about everything from avoiding plagiarism, developing attention and calm in the workspace, and skills development in AI with stories from the UK, via Israel and the UAE.
We kick off the episode with a listener feature on the Edtech 50 evening with Nicole Ponsford, Becki Bawler, and Caroline Keep from the Gender Equality Collective then, a message from HundrED.
Thank you Ufi Voctech Trust for supporting this series and vocational skills development in the UK, through their investments and grants in vocational technology. You can check out their work here.
You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech
Enjoy!
People
Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
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