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Oct 1, 2017

In this episode I speak to Patrick Brothers, CEO, Navitas Ventures on the Global Edtech Census which has mapped over 30,000 education companies from around the world into various edtech specialisms. Plus, extra conversations with Scott Kinney, Senior Vice President, at Discovery Education and Matthew Johnson, Associate, Cooley LLP, give us the low down on K-12 and legal landscapes around education innovation in the US and globally. Deborah Quazzo from GSV Labs also joins in the intro to give the GSV perspective on the ed innovation landscape from Pre-K to Grey".

Go to www.theedtechpodcast.com for full show notes and references. 

Sep 10, 2017

#82 - On Efficacy and Impact in Edtech

The third part of the ASU GSV Summit Series on The Edtech Podcast. Listen here.

Welcome everyone to this third episode from the ASU GSV Summit series on The Edtech Podcast. This week we hear about efficacy and impact touching upon evidence-based education, why you shouldn't attempt to be a researcher, and why accreditation isn't the answer in the complicated world of education! 

Don't forget to check out the reference links below, for more follow up videos, podcasts and reading on this topic. 

What's in this episode?

Sample quotes: 

Rather than saying let’s do it like this because Vgotsky said so in the 1920s, let’s look at what is the alternative 
Very very infrequently is the efficacy and impact judged in advance of major policy decisions
We want to make it more likely that the edtech products that reach our classrooms will have the best impact, not just the best marketing claims 

References: 

Bart Epstein - Jefferson Education Accelerator

Tom Bennett - ResearchED

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Solving K-12’s most complex issues across ed-tech dev, funding, and procurement with Katrina Stevens, Former Deputy Director of the Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education and Bart Epstein, Founding CEO, Jefferson Education Accelerator and Research Associate Professor at the University of Virginia moderating... 

 

 

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The ASU GSV Summit annually brings together the most impactful people from diverse constituencies – entrepreneurs, business leaders, K12 and higher ed leaders, policymakers, leading tech companies, and philanthropists – to create partnerships, explore solutions, and shape the future of learning and talent innovation.

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This episode is brought to you by the Michelson 20MM Foundation. A nonprofit based in Los Angeles, California that supports and invests in leading edge entrepreneurs, technologies, and initiatives with the potential to improve access, affordability, and student success in higher education. In 2016, 20MM launched the Michelson Runway, the world’s first accelerator dedicated to supporting innovations in higher-ed and career training. Both were founded thanks to the generous support of renowned spinal surgeon, Dr. Gary K. Michelson and his wife, Alya. Visit 20mm.org and michelsonrunway.com for more information.

Qatar Foundation International (QFI), LLC, is a U.S.-based member of Qatar Foundation (QF). QFI operates as both a grant-making organization, and a convener of thought leaders on issues related to global and international education, open education and education technologies as they intersect with the three core QFI programmatic areas: Arabic language and Arab culture, STE{A}M (STEM plus the Arts), and Youth Engagement. 

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Feb 4, 2017
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What's in this episode?

  1. Announcing an official media partnership with the SXSWedu® Conference & Festival
  2. In conversation with Richard Taylor, UK-based angel-investor in c.12 edtech start ups
  3. Recorded at Bett, you’ll hear what Taylor believes are:
    1. The 3 lessons for edtech success
    2. What he thinks of accelerators, distributors and teacher pension schemes
    3. And why he thinks part of our latest obsession with coding is a red herring.

Sample Quotes (@dick_taylor)

 

 

  • Investing in early stage start ups is like a horse race. Only the horse race takes seven years and half of them you need to take out and shoot.
  • Sometimes you make money but actually the better lesson is when you lose money.
  • When I first started in education i didn't really care what it was or if it had any impact. If it made money that was all I really cared about.
  • The ones that are more likely to be successful are the ones that have a teacher in the founding team
  • 'When schools buy or use edtech there is a big cost, but also a big opportunity cost.’
  • 'Schools buy million pounds worth of stuff pretty much how the local football club buy sausage rolls for their fundraising night' 


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Announcing Media Partnership with SXSWedu® Conference & Festival

The Edtech Podcast will attend the seventh annual SXSWedu® Conference & Festival in Austin, March 6-9, 2017 to document the passionate and diverse community of education stakeholders brought together across its four days of programming. As part of our media partnership, listeners can access a $50 discount on tickets by going to http://sxswedu.com/ and entering the code reg-edu-etp_c5173c53f9 at check-out! Shout out @podcastedtech if you're going and use the code :) 

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Bett is your annual opportunity to experiment with the latest education technology, hear from inspirational figures and experts in the industry and meet your peers from far and wide (as in literally from classrooms around the world).Read more and register here:  For more information contact laura.conboy@i2ieventsgroup.com 

 

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EdTechXEurope is the leading thought leader summit bringing together executive level investors, innovators and industry influencers from European and international education companies. Now in its fourth year, EdTechXEurope hosted 800+ global attendees and invited over 150 speakers to showcase EdTech innovations and perspectives from around the world. http://edtechxeurope.com/ 

 

The EdTech Exchange is Europe's largest community of EdTech Founders and provides members with mentoring, support and a programme of events designed to share best practice through peer-to-peer learning. The Exchange brings together like-minded EdTech entrepreneurs, encouraging them to exchange ideas, swap war stories, and give and receive advice from their peers. It is solely for Founders of EdTech companies who have raised at least £100,000 of financing or revenue, with many members having raised significantly more.  http://edtech.exchange/ 

 

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Jul 24, 2016

What's in this episode? 

  • Deborah’s journey from investment banker to angel Edtech investor to interviewing Bill Gates 
  • The link between investing in education innovation and giving people ‘access to the future’ 
  • Difference in EdTech uptake between K-12 and Higher Education in the UK & USA
  • The link between mindfulness and mental well-being in students, educators & investors
  • Challenging the factory model of education, with a modernised version of Montessori & personalised learning 
  • Shout-outs to some of Deborah Quazzo’s 47 angel investments from pre-K to Grey
  • Challenges for start ups  including procurement issues, difficult sales cycles, & dominant legacy providers  
  • What are former Angry Birds launching, in the form of Periodic-table storytelling, for the future of learning? 
  • Why Edtech which is positive and not punitive wins the day with educators 
  • Celebrating an increased representation of women in Edtech companies vs. the usual 6% in tech 
  • Why angel investment might be the dumbest thing in your life, unless …
  • Did Google’s Montessori upbringing affect the nature of the company? 
  • The 4Ps entrepreneurs need to remember 

Further Reading: 

Background:
Michael Moe, Investor, Entrepreneur and Author of Finding the Next Starbucks: https://twitter.com/michaelmoe
Think Equity partners: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/thinkequity-llc#/entity

GSV ASU Speakers
Dr. Condoleezza Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtG1FeuEFcE
Bill Gates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxSxq5TZhBE
Jim Collins: http://www.jimcollins.com/article_topics/articles.html
Carol Dweck: https://www.ted.com/talks/carol_dweck_the_power_of_believing_that_you_can_improve?language=en

Start-Ups/Scale-Ups:
Calm: https://twitter.com/calm?lang=en-gb
Headspace: https://twitter.com/headspace?lang=en-gb https://twitter.com/ClassDojo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Kahoot: getkahoot.com
Classdojo: https://twitter.com/ClassDojo
Gojimo: http://www.gojimo.com
BridgeU: https://bridge-u.com/schools
Lightneer: http://www.lightneer.com

Education Institutions:
Chicago Public School board: http://cps.edu/Pages/AboutCPS.aspx
Harvard Business School: http://www.hbs.edu/Pages/default.aspx
Teach for America: https://www.teachforamerica.org
Summit Schools of California: http://www.summitps.org/schools

Culture of learning:
Laszlo Bock: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laszlobock
(Hilariously retro vid on Google Founders and going to Montessori): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C_DQxpX-Kw

Pearson: https://twitter.com/pearson
McGrawHill: https://twitter.com/MHEducation
President Michael Crow, Arizona State University: https://president.asu.edu/about/michaelcrow ; https://twitter.com/michaelcrow
Stanford: https://twitter.com/Stanford
MIT: https://twitter.com/MIT
Link to Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast with Tim Ferris the following statement from ASU GSV
http://fourhourworkweek.com/2016/06/21/malcolm-gladwell/

Diversity in Edtech:
@womened
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3043779/world-changing-ideas/is-education-technology-where-women-are-starting-to-buck-the-tech-world
Mitch and Freada Kapor Lifetime Achievement Award: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7u1XWwhJQo

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