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#71 - What have Chatbots got to do with Higher Education? 1

May 26, 2017

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Intro -
- Ovum’s Future Edtech event 13-14 June, London. Free tickets for Universities here and 10% discount for non-Unis quoting code edpod/10 here
- Full Fabric's GDPR event on 22nd June reg here
- The Edtech Podcast LIVE podcast on Is Edtech a Thing? Reg here!
Interview with:
Geir Sand Nilsen (@geirsand) Co-founder at Edtech Foundry - the makers of the Differ chatbot
We talk about chatbots, using stutters to your own advantage, and the bittersweet notion of teaching artificial intelligence how to do your job.
Message from Class Central

References:

SXSWedu: https://twitter.com/SXSWedu

Geir Sand Nilsen @geirsand

Differ- differ.chat

Derren Brown- @DerrenBrown

Cass Sunstein-(Author of Nudge) (@CassSunstein)

Nudge-(book)https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nudge-Improving-

Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/0141040017

Nordic Edtech Conference-nordicedtech.squarespace.com

Norwegian government- https://www.regjeringen.no/en

/id4/

Nordic Impact-www.nordicimpact.no/

Learn capital- learncapital.com

Quotes:

AI: 'You're not needed anymore. The role of the human is what
we are talking about here'.
'I’m a stuttering guy as you probably can hear.'
'We scale people.'
'How long before chatbots are mainstream in schools and
Unis? 4-5 years.'
'I want everyone in the world to have a bot'

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#70 - K-12 Edtech Trends from SXSWedu '17 0

May 19, 2017

This episode was recorded at SXSWedu.
Thank you to this week's sponsors Japan Prize 2017 Qatar Foundation International and ClassCentral!
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What's in this episode?

Intro - past events, upcoming events, freelance services, and messages from Japan Prize 2017 and Qatar Foundation International
Interviews with:
Nina Rees, President and CEO, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Anthony A Owen, State Coord of Computer Science, Arkansas Department of Education
Alex Rosenthal, Editorial Producer, TEDed
Michael Cohen, The Tech Rabbi, EdTech trainer
We're talking about:
- What are charter schools?
- What are the current discussions around education and school choice?
- How did computer science gain status in Arkansas?
- How can design thinking interest students and educators?
- What’s next for TEDed after millions of YOUTUBE views?

Message from Class Central

References:

Nina Rees, President and CEO, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

Nina Rees https://twitter.com/Ninacharters

Aspire Public Schools https://twitter.com/aspire

National Alliance for public charter schools

https://twitter.com/charteralliance

Ayn Rand (Author of The Fountainhead)

https://www.aynrand.org/

https://twitter.com/AynRandOrg

The Fountainhead (Book)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Fountainhead-Ayn-

Rand/0141188626

Mosaica education

http://mosaicaeducation.com/

https://twitter.com/mosaicaed

Education Endowment Foundation

@EducEndowFoundn

https://twitter.com/EducEndowFoundn

Abigail Thernstrom. (Author of No Excuses)

http://www.thernstrom.com/

No Excuses (Book) https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Excuses-Closing-Racial-

Learning/dp/074326522X

Richard Whitmire (Author of The founders)

http://richardwhitmire.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/richardwhitmir

The Founders (Book)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Founders-Revolution-

Reinvent...Charter.../B01L7FGEG

Anthony A Owen, State Coord of Computer Science, Arkansas Department of Education

Anthony Owen-

Anthony.Owen@arkansas.gov

Arkansas Department of education-

http://www.arkansased.gov/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnthonyOwenADE

International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology-

http://www.iacsit.org/

Computer Science For All-

http://www1.nyc.gov/

https://twitter.com/CSForAll

Dr. William Durand (Professor in the Mathematics department at Henderson State

University, Arkadelphia, AR)

http://hsuprofsqa.tumblr.com/post/87303224340/dr-william-durand-professor-emeritus

Governor Asa Hutchinson -

https://twitter.com/AsaHutchinson

Johnny Key (Commissioner of education, Arkansas

https://twitter.com/JohnnyKey_AR

Vault 7 WikiLeaks- https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/

Primo Toys https://www.primotoys.com/

Pi Top

https://pi-top.com/

Micro: Bit- microbit.org/

Swift Playgrounds- https://www.apple.com/uk/swift/playgrounds/

https://twitter.com/olebegemann

Scratch-

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/scratch

Code.org-

https://twitter.com/codeorg

Alex Rosenthal, Editorial Producer, TEDed

Alex Rosenthal-

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-rosenthal

TEDed conference- https://twitter.com/TED_ED

PatrickJMT

YouTube-

https://www.youtube.com/user/patrickJMT

Twitter: @Patrick_JMT

Sarah Kay https://twitter.com/kaysarahsera

Avi Ofer-

https://www.aviofer.com/

Jeremiah Dickey-( Director of What "Orwellian" really means TEDtalk NOVA Labs -http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/labs/

https://www.futurelearn.com/

https://twitter.com/FutureLearn

Douglas Hofstadter-(Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid)

https://twitter.com/q_douglashofsta

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Book)-

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Godel-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567

Michael Cohen, The Tech Rabbi, EdTech trainer

https://twitter.com/TheTechRabbi͞

What I wish I knew when I was twenty

- Tina Seelig (Professor of the practice,

management science and engineering) https://twitter.com/tseelig

Austin Kleon (Author of steal like an artist)- https://twitter.com/austinkleon

Steal like an artist (Book)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Steal-Like-Artist-Austin-

Kleon/dp/0761169253

Garr Reynolds (Author of Presentation Zen)

Presentation Zen (Book)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Presentation-Zen-Simple-Design-

Delivery/dp/0321525655

Scratch Conference

MIT-

https://scratch.mit.edu/conference

Education - Apple Distinguished Educator - Apple (UK)-

https://www.apple.com/uk/education/apple-distinguished-educator

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