Edufuturists

We are joined by Lord Jim Knight. Jim is currently the Chief Education and External Officer at TES Global and is currently living in London. Aswell sas this he also chairs XRapid.com - which focuses on moving towards offering free malaria diagnosis across the globe. Jim was a Former UK Government Minister, one role was minister of state schools from 2004-2005, and he is a current member of the House of Lords. He is a visiting professor at the London Knowledge Lab of the Institute of Education in London. He is a big advocate for technology and change needed in education. As well as being the chief Education and External officer Jim comes off the bench to write articles too. You can follow him on twitter @LordJimKnight

On today’s episode we are delighted to be joined by Matt Lees from East Education. Matt went to a 2000 student state school in Lymm near Warrington which he describes as very average - they had barely any extra curricular really and not much support beyond subjects - mix of amazing teachers and not so amazing. He managed to get into Oxford University against his school’s advice to study Chemistry with German.

Jordan is currently the Deputy Director of Sixth Form at St Martin’s in the Field - a high-achieving London school.

In this episode we are joined by Jo Fletcher-Saxon. Jo is the current Assistant Principal for Higher and Adult education at Ashton Sixth Form college, which has just been awarded a full house of outstandings in their recent Ofsted inspection. Jo is also the practitioner research lead at the college. She has worked in FE since 1996 and has been at Ashton since 1997. She joined the college to set up early years and BTEC provision.

We are joined by the man, the myth, the legend, Mr Andrew Caffrey. Andy is the UK Regional Director of EdTechTeam. He received an Inspirational Educator Award from the Worshipful Company of Educators in 2016 and was named as part of the EdTech50 in 2020.

In this episode we discuss some really important contemporary issues surrounding school closures, distance learning and how we can work together as educators. We are delighted to be joined by Rachel Coathup. Rachel is a primary educator and a Google Certified Trainer and Innovator. She has a passion for integrating G Suite for Education into learning environments, and actively supports teachers to use technology to transform their teaching.

Martin was Head of School at XP Doncaster and is working as a Schools Designer.

On this show, we have Chris Melia, who is a Senior Learning Technologist at the University of Central Lancashire (known as UCLan), and digital learning lead for the University’s Faculty of Health and Wellbeing.

On this episode we are joined by Paul McKean. Paul is the Head of Further Education and Skills at Jisc (a UK organisation that provides digital solutions for education and research).

On this episode of the Edufuturists podcast we are joined by Dr. Pete Phillips. Pete is Research Fellow in Digital Theology at Durham University & Head of Digital Theology at Premier Media in London.