Edufuturists

All of our guests in this episode were involved in London Tech Week. Our first guest is Professor Mischa Dohler from King's College London. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Distinguished Member of Harvard Square Leaders Excellence. Our second guest is Gori Yahaya Founder and CEO of UpSkill Digital -  a company dedicated to minimising the global digital skills gap. The third member of the impressive triumvirate is Caroline Wright, Director General of the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) She is also Director of EdTech Exchange, Europe’s largest EdTech start-up network organisation. We are excited to discuss some of the themes from the Future of Learning: 2020-2025 report from London & Partners and Future Scape 248 that has recently been published. Please get your questions and comments in for the 3 guests throughout the chat.

In this episode we are joined live by Professor Mick Waters. Mick worked at a national level with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority where he was Director of Curriculum.

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Watch the video of this episode at https://youtu.be/7vDmOM1Eeio Many of our guests and listeners have told us they want to hear the voices of the students to let us know how they think the future of education might look. So we listened! We are glad to be joined by students (and staff) from Cheam Common Junior Academy in Surrey, part of the LEO Academy Trusts.  As an EdTech Demonstrator School, Cheam Common is now supporting the delivery of the Department for Education’s new national programme, providing peer-led advice and training to help schools and colleges use technology to support remote teaching and improve their digital capability.   The students joining us today are some of the digital leaders at Cheam and we are looking forward to hearing their ideas. If you want to check out the school, have a look at http://www.cheamcommon.org.uk/

Watch the video of this episode https://youtu.be/jxkrTZCyEvA Many of our guests and listeners have told us they want to hear the voices of the students to let us know how they think the future of education might look. So we listened! We are glad to be joined by students (and staff) from Matthew Moss High School in Rochdale.

Watch the video of this episode at youtube.com/edufuturists In this episode we are joined by Gavin & John from Alpha Plus - an education service business that specialises in standards, assessment and certification. We first met Gavin at the Surpass Conference in Newcastle last year where we presented about the need for a look at digital assessment in schools & colleges. Alpha Plus are leading the way in helping to make this possible. You can find out all about them at https://www.alphaplus.co.uk/ 

Watch the video of this episode https://youtu.be/yBdLNxCZfbg In this episode we are joined by Eric Curts. If you are big user of Google for Education, then Eric needs no introduction. Eric is a tech integrationist and Google for Education Certified Trainer and Innovator. His famous blog ControlAltAchieve.com helps educators all over the world in their journey of using technology in the classroom. Eric has just released his new book, named after his blog Control Alt Achieve, which aims to help teachers and students be innovative in the classroom using the Google for Education tools. You can follow him on twitter @ericcurts

Our guest today is Genelle Aldred. Genelle is a communications professional and has worked in media for over ten years. Genelle has most recently worked as a freelance newsreader for ITN. She has also worked for the BBC, ITV and ITN Productions, after gaining a Master degree in Broadcast Journalism. You can follow Genelle at @GenelleAldred

Our guest today is Andrew Strachan. Andrew was our first ever guest alway back on episode 1. Since then Andrew’s role has changed and we will be chatting to him about the work he is doing in the North East of England. You can follow Andrew on Twitter @MrStrachan_IT