This week’s episode is part of our series collaboration with Bett, supported by Pearson. Recorded LIVE at Bett 2022, you’ll hear from;

• David Price, OBE and author of Power of Us @DavidPriceOBE
• Valerie Hannon, Systems rethinker, and author of Thrive: The Purpose of Schools in a Changing World, @valeriehannon and
• Siân Gresswell, Senior Adviser for Careers and Employability, at GreenWood Academies.
• Sophie Bailey, Founder and Host, The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech, Founder, WorkTripp

We’re talking about Schools, Employability and Skills. Namely;

• How to continually develop and connect a careers programme to real-world opportunities.
• Connecting students and school teams to the "outside world", and,
• Helping students find their why in a local and global context. 

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You can find links to any references from the episode in our show notes: https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast.

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Episode two from our new series with the Female Edtech Fellowship, a collaboration between the European Edtech Alliance and Supercharger Ventures to support the growth of the most promising female founders in Europe.

In this second episode, I’m in conversation with the amazing Nele Mletschkowsky, Co-Founder and now CEO of Quofox and Riccarda Zezza the Italian founder and CEO of Lifeed. We talk about demands in reskilling and upskilling, applying life skills into the workplace and securing investment for fast growth businesses working in lifelong learning.

Follow along @EuropeanEdtech #femaleedtechfellowship

Bruce Daisley is a best selling author and technology leader from the UK.  He is one of the most respected thought leaders on the subject of workplace culture and the future of work and spent 12 years running Twitter in Europe and previously YouTube in the UK.

In this episode, we chat about challenging the "resilience orthodoxy" and challenging expected work intensity, and recognising the amazing power of groups for learning. 

I also share which events The Edtech Podcast will be at in the next few weeks. This is an episode with loads of amazing recommendations  - happy listening! 

Happy International Women's Day!! 

What better way to celebrate than to release this first episode from our new series with the Female Edtech Fellowship, a collaboration between the European Edtech Alliance and Supercharger Ventures to support the growth of the most promising female founders in Europe.

In this first episode, I’m in conversation with Beth Havinga and Svenia Busson of the European Edtech Alliance about female-led edtech innovation. We talk about the hopes of the fellowship, and a new investment fund that Svenia will be leading on.

Coming up on the series, we’ve got episodes on school digital strategies, corporate learning, and creative problem solving.

Follow along @EuropeanEdtech #femaleedtechfellowship

What's in this episode?

In this episode, I chat with Al Kingsley, author of My Secret Edtech Diary, MAT Leader and Edtech CEO. We chat about:

• Essential questions you should be asking around edtech 
• Practical considerations for funding and implementing Edtech
• How to create change through informal and formal channels, without doing it all yourself. 

Plus, a shout out to listeners around the world. 

You can follow Al at @AlKingsley_Edu

Check out the full episode show notes and references here: https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast.

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In this episode, I chat with Emily Devonald, Co-Founder, KEVRI, an early-stage startup focused on making knowledge exchange easier to capture for Universities. We chat about:

• Who is responsible for knowledge exchange within Higher Education
• Which countries are doing knowledge exchange "well" and what this means for innovation
• The effect of the pandemic and Brexit on knowledge exchange in the U.K vs. ROW. 

You can follow Kevri @kevridotco

Check out the full episode show notes and references here: https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast.

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What's in this episode?

Welcome back listeners...here's to 2022!

In this episode, it's James Plunkett, Author of End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken and How We Will Fix It. James is also Executive Director, Design, Data and Technology at Citizens Advice and has held various roles across the Resolution Foundation, Young Foundation and the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation. We chat about: 

• The challenges of upskilling in an atomised gig economy
• Bold approaches to adult education 
• Why sustaining change management puts you in a long line of social reformers. Keep going! 

This episode is part of our VocTech Podcast series produced in collaboration with Ufi VocTech Trust. 

You can follow James @jamestplunkett

Check out the full episode show notes and references here: https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast.

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What's in this episode?

This episode, recorded for the Reimagine Education Conference 2021 with Lumina Foundation and Bloom Institute of Technology (formerly known as Lambda School), is about pioneering new education models.

In this episode, we chat about 

• The value of credentials and why they matter
• Whether regulation is fit for new business models to evolve 
• Whether there is a risk of the 'haves and have nots" aligning with campus / virtual ed
• How to ensure equal scrutiny of all education models to ensure value for the learner 

People:

• Dr Courtney Brown, Vice President for Impact and Planning, Lumina Foundation | Twitter: @CourtLB; @LuminaFound
• Mr Austen Allred, Co-Founder & CEO, Bloom Institute of Technology (fka Lambda School) | Twitter: @Austen; @bloomtech
• Sophie Bailey, Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech

Check out the full episode show notes and references here: https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast.

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What's in this episode?

Hello and welcome to the next series of The VocTech Podcast where we take a look at vocational learning technologies and improving opportunity in the workplace. This series is supported by Ufi VocTech Trust.

This episode was recorded LIVE at the Week Of Voctech and in it, you'll hear about;

• how to remove barriers in education
• how to boost learner confidence, and
• how to build a use case for tech in learning within a corporate or workplace environment

Happy listening! 

Join in the conversation using #VocTechPodcast and #VocTech.

People

• Mark Baxter, Technical Director and Co-Founder, Digitalnauts | Twitter: @BaxterCodes, @Digitalnauts
• Dr Andrea Cullen, Lead Tutor & Co-founder, CAPSLOCK | Twitter: @stuff4andrea, @capslockcyber 
• Diane Morgan, Director of Talent, Zinc VC | Twitter: @dmorgannyc; @zincvc
• Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech

Show Notes and References  

Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes. 

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Hello listeners! 

In this episode, I am in conversation with Simon Freeman, the MD for IRIS Education who provide agile School Management Software for 12000 schools in the UK and Internationally.

Simon has an amazing array of public sector technology experience and in this episode we talk about;

• How School Leaders can manage the scale of the task ahead when it comes to the role of technology, learning and digitally-competent leadership within the school environment to create precious time for school plans.
• How to choose agile partners, who can act as a change management partner during this process. What to look out for and what to avoid.
• How to tap into the data within your school and get your MIS out from under desks. Is that you? The big message here is RELEASE THE DATA! and get onboard with agile processes.

Plus, free tickets for listeners to Reimagine Education, and other awards news and updates! 

Check out the full episode show notes and references here: https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast.

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