Watch the video of this episode at https://youtu.be/nBD94WhKzBA Rachelle Dene Poth is an edtech consultant, presenter, author, attorney, blogger and teacher. She currently teaches Spanish and a course on emerging tech that covers AR/VR, artificial intelligence, coding, gaming, digital citizenship, video animation and more. She is the president of the ISTE Teacher Education Network and serves on the leadership team for the ISTE Mobile Learning Network. At ISTE19, she received the Making IT Happen...
Jul 19, 2020•56 min•Season 2Ep. 97
Watch the video of this episode at youtube.com/edufuturists Vikki is the National Head of EdTech and Digital Skills at the Education and Training Foundation (ETF). She joined the ETF in 2018 from Epping Forrest College where she was Head of Digital Literacy, Voice & Innovation. Vikki is French and has been living in England since 1987. She initially worked as a freelance illustrator and taught graphic design and illustration at South Thames College. In 1993 Vikki acquired her first Apple Mac...
Jul 12, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 96
Watch the video of this episode at youtube.com/edufuturists Alex has worked in education for a decade. After starting out as an English teacher in a London comprehensive, he completed his MA at the Institute of Education before joining Teach For All, a growing global network of organizations working to ensure that the next generation fulfil their potential. His book ‘Natural Born Learners’ is a user's guide to transforming learning in the twenty-first century. The comedian Ruby Wax described it ...
Jul 05, 2020•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 95
Watch the video of this episode at youtube.com/edufuturists Summer has been working in education for over 16 years. She’s been a teacher, education leader, policy maker, advocate and facilitator of learning for students and professionals across every system and sector in Australia and works to ensure teachers have every support they need to succeed and thrive. Summer has expert knowledge in learning experience design, design thinking, middle years schooling and environmental education, Summer ha...
Jun 28, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 94
Watch the video of this episode at youtube.com/edufuturists In this episode we are joined by David Price OBE. We were last joined by David on Episode 42. It was so full of amazing dialogue, especially discussing David’s book, Open: How We Will Live, Work and Learn in the Future, an Amazon bestseller. As we are sure all will agree who have read this or listened to him speak, David is a brilliant thinker and author specialising in how organisations learn, innovate and make themselves fit for the f...
Jun 21, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Season 2Ep. 93
The the video of this episode at youtube.com/edufuturists We are joined by Professor Stephen Heppell. Stephen's portfolio of effective large scale projects over three decades, have established him internationally as a leader in the fields of learning, new media and technology A school teacher for more than a decade, and a professor since 1989, Stephen has worked, and is working, with learner led projects, with governments around the world, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, with...
Jun 14, 2020•1 hr 32 min•Season 2Ep. 92
This episode is in partnership with our good friends at https://www.texthelp.com Watch this episode as it aired live on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/edufuturists Follow us on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/edufuturists Check out all past episodes at https://www.edufuturists.com Subscribe on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/edufuturists/id1347592880 Send us a message https://anchor.fm/edufuturistspodcast/message Eilidh is currently Education Support Officer for Digital Learning in...
Jun 07, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 91
Watch this episode as it went out live on YouTube https://youtu.be/4YwUrwHnBO8 Follow us on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/edufuturists Check out all past episodes at https://www.edufuturists.com Subscribe on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/edufuturists/id1347592880 In today’s episode we are joined by Michael Quigley, a passionate member of the BNI networking group. Michael Quigley holds BA (Hons) 1st class degree in Drama & English from Chester University and an MA in English ...
May 31, 2020•44 min•Season 2Ep. 90
Watch the live recording video https://youtu.be/lLSxLUIgZ2k Follow us on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/edufuturists Check out all past episodes at https://www.edufuturists.com Subscribe on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/edufuturists/id1347592880 Kavin is a Cambridge-educated, Dad of 2 kids, passionate about developing "soft skills" in the next generation. He quit his job leading the UK division of an Education publishing company to found www.KidCoach.app: a conversational tool th...
May 24, 2020•50 min•Season 2Ep. 89
Follow us on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/edufuturists Check out all past episodes at https://www.edufuturists.com Subscribe on iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/edufuturists/id1347592880 Abdul Chohan is the Director of ThinkSimple Ltd. The organisation works with school leaders and Ministries of Education to develop operational efficiencies and innovative learning approaches in education using mobile technology. Abdul is a former teacher of 20 years and is the Co-founder of a prim...
May 17, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 88
Follow us on Twitter https://www.twitter.com/edufuturists Check out all past episodes at https://www.edufuturists.com Subscribe & watch episodes live at https://www.youtube.com/edufuturists We are joined by Bob Harrison, who has had extensive experience in schools and colleges as a teacher, lecturer, senior manager, principal and governor. He has worked with Head teachers and senior leaders in developing leadership skills for the National College of School Leadership, was the adviser to DfES...
May 10, 2020•1 hr 19 min•Season 2Ep. 87
On this episode we are delighted to be joined by the E-Sports Teacher James Fraser-Murison. James studied at Roehampton uni and currently in his 16th year teaching. James has worked in four large sixth colleges having taught English and media a level and BTEC. James has been a teaching and learning coach, deputy head and now a director of learning at Queen Mary’s college Hampshire teaching on level 2 and 3 courses. He is a Google level 2 trained (, keen proponent of ILT to help achieve results, ...
May 03, 2020•38 min•Season 2Ep. 86
We are joined by Lord Jim Knight. Jim is currently the Chief Education and External Officer at TES Global and is currently living in London. Aswell sas this he also chairs XRapid.com - which focuses on moving towards offering free malaria diagnosis across the globe. Jim was a Former UK Government Minister, one role was minister of state schools from 2004-2005, and he is a current member of the House of Lords. He is a visiting professor at the London Knowledge Lab of the Institute of Education in...
Apr 26, 2020•58 min
On today’s episode we are delighted to be joined by Matt Lees from East Education. Matt went to a 2000 student state school in Lymm near Warrington which he describes as very average - they had barely any extra curricular really and not much support beyond subjects - mix of amazing teachers and not so amazing. He managed to get into Oxford University against his school’s advice to study Chemistry with German.
Apr 19, 2020•57 min
Jordan is currently the Deputy Director of Sixth Form at St Martin’s in the Field - a high-achieving London school.
Apr 11, 2020•29 min
In this episode we are joined by Jo Fletcher-Saxon. Jo is the current Assistant Principal for Higher and Adult education at Ashton Sixth Form college, which has just been awarded a full house of outstandings in their recent Ofsted inspection. Jo is also the practitioner research lead at the college. She has worked in FE since 1996 and has been at Ashton since 1997. She joined the college to set up early years and BTEC provision.
Apr 04, 2020•36 min
We are joined by the man, the myth, the legend, Mr Andrew Caffrey. Andy is the UK Regional Director of EdTechTeam. He received an Inspirational Educator Award from the Worshipful Company of Educators in 2016 and was named as part of the EdTech50 in 2020.
Mar 29, 2020•53 min
In this episode we discuss some really important contemporary issues surrounding school closures, distance learning and how we can work together as educators. We are delighted to be joined by Rachel Coathup. Rachel is a primary educator and a Google Certified Trainer and Innovator. She has a passion for integrating G Suite for Education into learning environments, and actively supports teachers to use technology to transform their teaching.
Mar 21, 2020•59 min
Martin was Head of School at XP Doncaster and is working as a Schools Designer.
Mar 15, 2020•54 min
On this show, we have Chris Melia, who is a Senior Learning Technologist at the University of Central Lancashire (known as UCLan), and digital learning lead for the University’s Faculty of Health and Wellbeing.
Mar 08, 2020•34 min
On this episode we are joined by Paul McKean. Paul is the Head of Further Education and Skills at Jisc (a UK organisation that provides digital solutions for education and research).
Mar 01, 2020•47 min
On this episode of the Edufuturists podcast we are joined by Dr. Pete Phillips. Pete is Research Fellow in Digital Theology at Durham University & Head of Digital Theology at Premier Media in London.
Feb 23, 2020•36 min
On this episode we are joined by Deborah Kellsey Millar. Deborah has thirty years' experience working in further and higher education. Passionate about using technology for educational excellence, she is the Group Executive Director for Digital Learning...
Feb 16, 2020•44 min
On this episode we are joined by Dan Sydes. Dan is currently Principal at North East Futures UTC, a 14-19 year old School that opened in Newcastle, in the UK, in September 2018 specialising in the IT and Health Science industries, two of the fastest...
Feb 09, 2020•41 min
Khaled is Head of e-learning & libraries at the Hull College Group. His main focus is on blended learning and innovation using widening participation delivery models that enhance the digital skills of both staff and students. He is a passionate believer in edtech and learner voice and is a proud Microsoft innovative educator expert and holds a BSc Degree in Computer Science. He tweets at @khaledal_ankar
Feb 02, 2020•25 min
We are joined by Marta McAlister. Marta is a former teacher turned Googler who drives the voice of educators in product and program development. Marta has worked on education teams at Google for over 8 years and is currently focused on building productivity and collaboration tools for higher education.
Jan 26, 2020•45 min
We are joined by another good friend of the show, Louise Jones and also Ulla Koivula. Louise has recently joined Ulla and the team at Thinglink. ThingLink is an edtech platform that makes it easy to augment images, videos, and virtual tours with additional information and links.
Jan 19, 2020•57 min
If you cast your memory back to episode 41 we talked to Jon Neale about his visit to the Agora school in Roermond, Netherlands and their innovative style of education. On this episode we are delighted to be joined by Rob Houben, the manager of Agora. As the manager, Rob is like the headteacher or principal.
Jan 12, 2020•1 hr 4 min
On this episode of the Edufuturists podcast we are chatting with friend of the podcast, Mark Allen. Mark has helped over two hundred schools become future-ready by moving them to the cloud. He works with schools on the three essential strands of Technology, Pedagogy and Engagement, to help them increase productivity both at the individual and the team level. His work has helped enhance learning for both children and adults, and both increase efficiency and save schools a lot of money.
Jan 05, 2020•41 min
Joining us on this episode of the Edufuturists podcast is Samantha Cohen. Samantha leads the Amercian University School of Education's doctoral studies in Washington DC. She is responsible for launching the inaugural, practitioner based program in education leadership and policy. Samantha started her career as a first grade teacher in Atlanta, working with students and families to build partnerships and future pathways.
Dec 29, 2019•34 min
