Our guest today is Erica Tuke is an Engineering Design teacher and Instructional Coach at Highland Park High School, in Chicago. Since Erica started teaching eight years ago, she has been exploring project-based learning, EdTech, and ways to make student curiosity the center of her lesson designs. After falling in love with the design thinking process a few years ago, Erica has fully adopted this model in her teaching approach. In addition to design thinking, Erica is passionate about equity in ...
Dec 22, 2019•41 min
Kellie is a teacher and Digital Learning Leader at Broughton Primary School. Kellie is passionate about enhancing teaching and learning by embedding digital technology in the classroom. She has recently returned to the classroom after a secondment as Regional Digital Leader for North Wales.
Dec 15, 2019•25 min
Joining us again on the podcast today is Jamie Smith, who is joint with Paddy McGrath as our most capped guest. Jamie is a good friend of the Edufuturists and spoke at our Summit in July this year. Jamie is Executive Chairman at C-Learning as well as a serial investor and entrepreneur.
Dec 08, 2019•1 hr 2 min
We have a special announcement
Dec 05, 2019•40 sec
Unifrog helps students find their future. They bring all the available information into one single, impartial, user-friendly platform that helps students to make the best choices, and submit the strongest applications.
Dec 04, 2019•13 min
Joining us on the podcast today is Drew Povey. At the age of 32 Drew became one of the youngest ever headteachers in the UK, when he became the head at Harrop Fold School in Salford. In 2017, Harrop Fold School became the focus of the Channel 4 TV show ‘Educating Manchester’, which documented the day to day life of the school.
Dec 01, 2019•50 min
Joining us on the podcast is Professor Damian Hughes. Damian is a world-renowned keynote speaker who combines his practical and academic background within sport, organisation and change psychology to work as a trusted adviser to the business, education and sporting elite, specialising in the creation of high performing cultures. He has delivered training to and advised the whose who of business, education and sport, working with the likes of Sale Sharks, Warrington Wolves, West Bromwich Albion a...
Nov 24, 2019•48 min
Joining us today is Patrick McGrath. Paddy is a great friend of the Edufuturists podcast, and has now appeared on more episodes than any other guest. As well as joining us on the show Paddy also led a workshop at the Edufuturists summit this summer and presented one of our awards on behalf of texthelp, the organisation he works for.
Nov 12, 2019•51 min
We are joined on the podcast today by Zaitoon Bukhari, who works not far away from me at Witton Park Academy in Blackburn. Zaitoon went to the University of Huddersfield and specialised in Human Biology before going on and completing her teacher training at Bradford College.
Nov 10, 2019•27 min
Martin Boehm is a marketing professor at IE Business School in Madrid. For the last decade, he has been researching and consulting in the area of customer management. What really interests Professor Boehm from a marketing standpoint is the management of customer relationships in order to increase a firm’s long-term profitability.
Nov 03, 2019•47 min
Lindsay is a passionate education visionary with vast experience assisting others in adapting to, and thriving in, technology-rich classroom environments. After graduating from the University of Stellenbosch with a BA in Geography and Environmental Studies, Anthropology and Xhosa, she completed her Post Graduate Certificate in Education through the University of South Africa.
Oct 26, 2019•32 min
Steve, Ben and Dan discuss Google Slides as an educational tool. This is a practical guide to the tool, with some of the classic features and new updates.
Oct 22, 2019•10 min
Our guest is Steve Bambury joining us all the way from Dubai! Steve has worked in education for 18 years, ultimately taking on the role of Head of Digital Learning and Innovation across the JESS Dubai school group. Steve now works as an independent technology consultant, supporting schools and other organisations to integrate technology effectively.
Oct 20, 2019•40 min
Ben is a former Mathematics teacher who has worked with schools, districts and organisations on implementing change through educational technology since 2012 when he took his own school through a Google for Education implementation. Ben now leads the Google relationship for AppsEvents, a Google for Education Professional Development Partner. This involves working directly with the Google for Education team to design, create and deliver on a range of training experiences. Including instructional ...
Oct 12, 2019•49 min
One listener will win an Echo Dot 3rd G worth £49.99, an official Edufuturists travel mug, tote bag, pen, stress ball & stickers. Simply tweet us what you think of the podcast and tag people 3 people in it. Ends 31 Oct 19
Oct 10, 2019•1 min
At Edufuturists we believe that the future of education must be influenced by industry. So in this special episode Dan, Ben and Steve are in the north west of England for the Burnley College Science and Technology Festival. At the festival we chat to industries and educators who are passionate about connecting and working together. We get into the benefits of technology for industry and how that needs to impact the classroom, so that students gain the right skills. We chat VR welding, robotic ar...
Oct 06, 2019•36 min
Darren Simons chats to us about Google Data Studio. Darren started his career in commercial radio after studying a national diploma in media. He went on to work at the BBC World Service as a Studio Manager before returning to his old college, Suffolk New College, in 2010 as a media lecturer.
Oct 01, 2019•12 min
We have got a double act joining us on the podcast and we have two men who are in that unenviable position of leading IT in their organisations. Both of them are newly minted Google Certified Innovators and are really keen to join up IT teams with teachers, making it easier to work together.
Sep 29, 2019•44 min
In this episode we are joined by Donnie Maclurcan. Donnie has been an entrepreneur since he was young: from selling his brothers artwork at the age of 8, trading on the stock market from the age of 12 and co-founding the post-growth institute, where he is now CEO. The Post Growth Institute is an international group exploring and inspiring paths to global prosperity that don’t rely on economic growth. The PGI primarily focuses on what economic systems will come after capitalism and what that syst...
Sep 21, 2019•45 min
Our guest today is Charlie James. Charlie is a Learning Technologist at Basingstoke College of Technology, a Google Reference College in the South East of England. A strong believer in student-centered learning, Charlie has an affinity for technologies and approaches which empower and accommodate all learners. Charlie also has a keen interest in AI and machine learning, social media and the uses of data within education, and is proud to be a Level 1 Google Educator.
Sep 14, 2019•18 min
We chat to Pete Atherton about his book "50 Ways to Use Technology Enhanced Learning in the Classroom"
Sep 10, 2019•13 min
Our guest today is Amanda Alford, a seventh-grade science and Google Education teacher at Switzerland County School Corporation in Vevay, Indiana. She is the host of Facing Your Fears podcast which has had some awesome guests including Eric Curts and Matt Miller.
Sep 07, 2019•30 min
Our guest today is John McGowan, CEO at Unicorn Magic creating at AutomagicalApps.com.
Sep 05, 2019•22 min
Patrick (if that is his real name) is the technical lead for the UK government’s CyberFirst programme.
Aug 31, 2019•42 min
Our guest today is Tom Mullaney. Tom is the Digital Learning Coach at Carroll Middle School in Raleigh, NC. He is dedicated to making school engaging for students and sustainable for teachers. Tom’s public education experience includes Special Education, Social Studies, educational technology coaching, and digital design in New York, Pennsylvania, California, and North Carolina.
Aug 24, 2019•23 min
Our guest is Carrie Hamilton. Carrie is one of the rare educators who wouldn’t want to be anywhere but in a middle grades classroom. She’s spent a decade teaching sixth grade, first as a social studies teacher at a charter school designed to meet the needs of the local refugee community, and now teaching across the curriculum at a small independent school in Atlanta, Georgia
Aug 17, 2019•18 min
Our guest is Stephanie Signer. Stephanie is a Teacher/Librarian, Grade 5/6 Teacher and Technology Lead Teacher with the York Region District School Board in Ontario, Canada.
Aug 10, 2019•18 min
Our guest is Pete Atherton. Pete has been a teacher for over 20 years, now a writer and lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University and Edge Hill University.
Aug 03, 2019•22 min
Our guest is Cheyenne Batista. Cheyenne is Founder & CEO of Firefly Worldwide Inc., a global education consulting firm supporting visionary leaders to achieve their missions brilliantly.
Jul 27, 2019•28 min
Our guest in this episode is Dr. Tim Green. Tim is a professor of Educational Technology and Teacher Education at California State University
Jul 20, 2019•39 min
