The Edtech Podcast

What's in this episode? This episode looks at the early careers space and delves into the response for young people going into the world of work, amidst the pandemic. You will hear from investors, entrepreneurs and graduate interns all interested in innovation around young people, skills development and employment in the age of Covid-19. With internships, apprenticeships, and traditional volunteering opportunities all closing down to some extent; what opportunity is there to support young people better, and through the use of technology? We discuss this and more. Plus, a message from the writer of our latest blog post, Richard Pettey, 'Advancing technology education in rural high schools across America'. 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 Nic Pillow, Venture Manager, Blackfinch Ventures & Isolation Intern | Twitter: @DrNicP Lucy Griffiths, CEO and Co-Founder, Sort Your Future | Twitter: @lucygriffiths Femi Ayibiowu, Risk Consulting Intern, KPMG, EdTech & Esports Investor, United Nations Young Innovator, Nigeria, Graduate of 2019 | Twitter: @femiayibiowu Jenna Hyde, Young Entrepreneur, careers digital and media skills support for young people | Website: www.houseofhydemedia.com Richard Pettey, Director of Policy and Strategy, U.S. Department of Education | Twitter: @RichardPettey Show Notes and References Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. Tell us your story 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.

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. People Sophie Bailey, Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech Chip Paucek, Co-Founder & CEO, 2U | Twitter: @chippaucek Show Notes and References Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. Tell us your story 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.

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. Plus, the need for better data, and a quick message from the author of our latest guest blog post: 'Teaching through the pandemic – A Brit's view from the US." Thank you for listening! Stay busy, stay safe, and keep smiling. People Sophie Bailey, Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech Nicole Ponsford, Award-Winning Digital Educator and Founder of The Gender Equality Collective (The GEC) | Twitter: @NicolePonsford; @edtechdemo Becki Bawler, Teacher, Leader & Learner | Twitter: @RCCS_MissBawler Tom Hooper, Founder & CEO, Third Space Learning | Twitter: @thirdspacetweet Katy Potts, Computing, Digital and Online - Lead for schools at Islington Council | Twitter: @katypotts Paul Beeton, Key Stage Two Leader and Assistant Headteacher, Hanover Primary School | Twitter: @thebeet79 Genna Ash, Editor, Education Technology | Twitter: @genna_ash Philip Bhol, Class Teacher, Communications Team Lead, Kings Cross Academy, Kings Cross London UK | Twitter: @pip_bhol Michael Forshaw, Founder and CEO, EdTech Impact & Innovate My School | Twitter: @TheEdtechImpact; @InnovateMySchl Stephan Caspar, Assistant Teaching Professor in Media Creation and Multicultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University | Twitter: @dotsandspaces Show Notes and References Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. Tell us your story 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.

What's in this episode? In this week's episode, you'll hear from the Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln in the UK. Chris Headleand developed an innovative way to keep students and staff connected to the University of Lincoln during lockdown, by creating a virtual campus called Lincoln Island which has been downloaded over 8000 times. We chat to Chris about the opportunity for Universities to really reinvigorate their teaching and learning, student centricity and the need to take the reality of local lockdowns and needs of shielding students seriously. Thanks again for listening and have a wonderful week. People Sophie Bailey, Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech Chris Headleand, Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Computer Science, University of Lincoln | Twitter: @ChrisHeadleand Show Notes and References Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. Tell us your story 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.

What's in this episode? In this week's episode we throwback to a past recording with John Brindle a learning technologist at the University of Liverpool, who offers up lots of useful frameworks for those who might be finding themselves thrown into the world of learning technology and the pedagogy of online learning and all the head-scratching that entails. 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 John Brindle, Learning Technologist, University of Liverpool Management School | Twitter: @johnbrindletel Show Notes and References Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. Tell us your story 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.

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 Show Notes and References Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. Tell us your story 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.

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 Linah Anyango, Teacher and ICT integration Coordinator at Regis school Runda, Gems Education and Global Teacher Prize 2020 Nominee | Twitter: @YLnhanyango Kai Vacher, Principal, British School Muscat | Twitter: @PrincipalMuscat Dr Sonia Ben Jafaar, CEO, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education | Twitter: @SB4Edu Atif Mahmood, Founder and CEO, Teacherly | Twitter: @teamteacherly Show Notes and References Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. Episode Time Stamps 3:30 - Kai Vacher Intro 12:00 - Aastha Das Intro 19:00 - Linah Anyango Intro 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 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.

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 Dr Neelam Parmar, Director of EdTech, Digital Learning and Innovation, www.ashfordschool.co.uk | Twitter: @AshfordSchool 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 Show Notes and References Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. Tell us your story 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.

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 Nancy Diebkilé, Customer Success Manager, @wooclap | Twitter: @nancy_wooclap Martin Hamilton,Writer, Futurist and Innovation Advisor, Website: MartinH.Net | Twitter: @martin_hamilton Veejay Lingiah, CEO, Flashacademy | Twitter: @FlashAcademy_HQ Neil Mosley, Digital Learning Designer, Cardiff University | Twitter: @neilmosley5 Scott Wood, Associate Director, Machine Scoring, ACT | Twitter: @ACTNext Show Notes and References Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. Tell us your story 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.

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 Show Notes and References Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. Tell us your story 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.