I’m in conversation with the wonderful Sandy Speicher, Managing Director at Ideo Education Practice talking about design thinking in education. I also chat to Nick Robinson, Co-Founder and CEO, ELTJam about learner experience design. Finally, I give a sneak peak into what's coming up on The Edtech Podcast next, including a brand new series in November and January.
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I’m in conversation with the CEO of Kahoot, Erik Harrell. We talk British education in Thailand, sailing around the Nordic Fjords & bringing Kahoot! to corporate learning. Plus, David Levin announces he is leaving McGrawHill Education.
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This week, we’re yabbering on about Australia and Edtech. Crikey! I speak to Summer Howarth, Learning Director, Education Changemakers, John Angley, Senior Trade & Investment Commissioner at AusTrade, Riley Batchelor, CEO, Edugrowth and start up founder, Isuru Wanasinghe, of Life is Yellow.
For full show notes and references go to https://theedtechpodcast.com
This week I’m delighted to share a conversation I recorded with Edsurge CEO and Co-Founder Betsy Corcoran back in May this year.
In this episode we talk about how Betsy left her secure role at Forbes (at the height of the economic recession). Betsy then embarked on some educational volunteering, dust-bunny collection and finally set up Edsurge in a bid to better understand why the future technologies of learning were not making it into the everyday schools of California.
We also talk yoga, egos and high-stakes student academic and entrepreneurial expectation in the Silicon Valley, as well as what Hamilton the musical has got to do with Personalised Learning.
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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".
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The fifth edition of the ASU GSV Summit Series on The Edtech Podcast. Listen here.
Welcome everyone to this fifth episode from the ASU GSV Summit series on The Edtech Podcast. This week we’re getting into the many-headed beast of educational reform.
Educational reform can mean many things to many people, but essentially focuses on changing public education for the better. For example at the time of recording the interviews for this episode the incoming 11th Educational Secretary in the US, Betsy Devos, was advocating for more choice in school options (an approach rejected by critics for only favouring those who are able to exercise such choice due to economic and social mobility and freedom.)
During her ASU GSV Summit keynote, Devos stated:
“Our education-delivery method should be as diverse as the kids they serve, instead of our habit of forcing them into a one-size-fits-all model”
“Traditional, charter, private, virtual, and other delivery methods not yet developed—would all be treated as viable options as long as they meet the needs of students.”
To a choice audience of educational technology proponents, Devos gave a confident endorsement of edtech - something we are yet to see explicitly from the UK Government - stating:
“I’m pretty confident that we have not yet realized the full range of technology’s power and ability to help students learn’.
She also vowed to cut bureaucracy to unleash these benefits, in other words to:
...'Move the federal government out of the way so you can do your job'
In this episode, we spend time looking at the various efforts of educational reform across the US and how these compare internationally, including focus on literacy, adult education and higher education. How is educational reform co-ordinated across multiple states in the US, how can the tide of adult illiteracy be turned and how can the financial structures of Higher Ed be challenged to increase access? All this and more in our interviews with this week’s guests. You’ll hear from:
What's in this episode?
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Sample Quotes:
Some programmes, they never sustain, they never catch, because there is no policy basis for their programmes - Lizzette C Gonzalez Reynolds, Vice President of Policy, ExcelinEdHow do we continue to work with our State leadership? If the policy is going to get in the way, we need to have different conversations - Lizzette C Gonzalez Reynolds, Vice President of Policy, ExcelinEdWe have a mission of trying to help 11million people who otherwise would not be prepared for knowledge economy jobs - Heather Hiles, Deputy Director on the Postsecondary Success team, Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationThere are 36 million Americans that are not at the basic level of reading - Hutton Hinson Higgins | Senior Director, Development & Strategic Alliances Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
References:
Lizzette Reynolds
Heather Hiles
Hutton Higgins
Like this episode? Check out these related videos and podcasts:
Keynote and Fireside Chat with Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos & Jeanne Allen, CEO, The Center for Educational Reform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW4m61KWdHs
American Revolution 2.0 How Education Innovation is Going to Revitalize America and Transform the U.S. Economy - download here.
RoboEd: The Who, What, and Why of Personalized Learning with moderator, Michael Moe, Co-Founder + Partner, GSV Asset Management and panelists, Dr. Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University and Jose Ferreira, Founder + CEO, Knewton
https://soundcloud.com/global-silicon-valley/roboed
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A quick message from our friends at iClassics Education.
iClassics Education is a new program, based on the award-winning iClassics Immersive Reading App Collection, an Indie Start-Up based in Barcelona. Created by a team of Educators, Developers and Designers, it provides a truly unique and high-quality medium to engage students with literature.
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· An Analytics Platform Enabling Teachers to Monitor Student Progress
· iClassics Specific Teacher Resources for each App
· Unlimited Access to the ENTIRE iClassics App Collection
· Maintenance and Updates
For more information on engaging students with literature and to see what they’re up to, visit iclassicscollection.com/en/education/. You can also sign up for a free account at iclassicsedu.com/
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The fourth edition of the ASU GSV Summit Series on The Edtech Podcast.
Welcome everyone to this fourth episode from the ASU GSV Summit series on The Edtech Podcast. This week we hear about China and Edtech featuring a whole raft of entrepreneurs talking about the internationalisation of Edtech and the part China is playing in investment, innovation and change at a state and consumer level.
Educator looking to navigate online tutoring opportunities? Listen In. International School or University looking to understand how to expand into China? Listen In. Start Up wanting to know how to expand into China and/or what the incubator opportunities are? Listen In. Want to check you know about the Government priority areas in educational innovation? Listen In. Fancy some new book recommendations from some of China's top innovators? Listen In.
Basically, listen in.
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:
US spending on housing is 33%. in Asia, 10%. Family spending on ed in US is 2%. In Asia, 15% - Michael Moe, GSV Cap.
You know, the Chinese Olympic Games had this spirit of 'one world, one dream' and it very much inspired me to set up my next two start ups - Dun Xiao, Co-founder, 17zuoye.com
'I think the Chinese Government has invested $1.7bn in the edtech system, since 2015 alone, but i think the major factor is families' - Cindi Mi, CEO, VIPKid
'We are one of the first in the world that focus entirely on building AI teachers instead of doing online tutoring' - Yi Wang, CEO, Liulishuo
'Nowadays, we are doing lots of investment in early education, STEAM, K-12 learning and International Ed' - Joy Chen 陈丁鸿, Executive Advisor, International Business Development, TAL Education Group
'The top 3 things for edtech expanding into china? Localisation, partners, and patience ' - Sophie Chen, Partner, JMDEdu
'We are definitely finding a trend in extra-curricular learning' - Pei Yu, Head of the Edstars Programme
References:
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A quick message from our friends at Class Central. Its been more than half a decade since free online courses from Stanford kicked off the modern-MOOC or massive online open courses movement. Since then more than 700 universities around the world have launched MOOCS, and more than 60 million people have taken at least one course. Class Central has been keeping track of the MOOC space right from the beginning. Over 10 million learners have used Class Central to find and review online courses. As the #1 search engine for online courses, Class Central provides a comprehensive listing of more than 8000 MOOCs. Class Central’s MOOC Report blog contains the most comprehensive coverage of the industry, including a recent listing of the top 50 MOOCs of all time. To find out what’s up, down, new or just slightly left field in the world of online courses, head to www.class-central.com/report/
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#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
Like this episode? Check out these related videos and podcasts:
Solving Higher Ed's complex problems with Bart Epstein, Founding CEO, Jefferson Education Accelerator and Research Associate Professor at the University of Virginia and company...
Under 30 Conversation: Dorm Room Founders On Impact And Reform with Caroline Howard, Editor, Forbes with Jacob Allen, Founder-CEO, pilotEd Schools (30 Under 30 2017), Alexis Morin, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Students for Education Reform (30 Under30 2013) and Joe Vasquez, Co-Director, Runway Incubator; Co-Founder, Michelson Runway EdTech Accelerator (30 Under 30 2017):
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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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.
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#81 - How can Edtech Drive School Improvement?
A panel discussion run by the British Educational Suppliers Association during London Edtech Week 2016, recorded for The Edtech Podcast. Listen here.
Hello and welcome everyone. From apps that are aspiring to be the Uber of supply teaching, to cutting-edge platforms and assessment tools allowing school data to be analysed in innovative new ways, many EdTech companies are aiming to enhance teaching and learning experiences across the UK and in doing so, transform the way that schools operate – saving them both time and money. As well as playing a unprecedented role in helping to raise standards of attainment; and improving the quality of what is taught and how it is taught.
This week's episode looks at all of these things and the UK's standing in edtech, alongside an increasing attraction to international expansion opportunities. I hope you enjoy! (Plus, don't forget to check out the reference links below, for more guest suggestions and reading on this topic.)
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Sample quotes:
We need to drive efficiencies within our schools so we can save money and spend that money on having more teachers in classrooms with our kids, as thats what schools are all about
Edtech as a term means more to policy makers, incubators than to schools
There’s a famous saying for those teachers here, y’know, consistency leads to outstanding outcomes
References:
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#80 - User-centred design: co-creating best of breed edtech with teachers for teachers
Hello and welcome everyone. This week we are in ‘takeover’ mode with Harness, talking about user-centred design and creating edtech with teachers for teachers.
Educators! Join in the co-development process:
What's in this episode?
We look at everything from how investment and growth plans influence edtech design to the good and the bad, to how teachers share information on practical edtech, and we also hear from Harness on their own personal edtech start-up story and why they believe 'a teacher a day keeps the EdTech in play'.
Like this episode? Check out the message below from the team at Harness on how you can get involved in their product development and feedback.
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