Digitize Fully Charged Podcast

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we meet Matthew Wemyss! Matthew Wemyss is an international educator and author known for his human-centred approach to artificial intelligence in schools. As Assistant School Director at the Cambridge School of Bucharest, he leads projects that integrate AI into teaching...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we meet Patrick Hickey! As a primary teacher, EdTech consultant, and PhD researcher, Patrick blends his unique lived experience with cutting-edge digital tools to completely redefine inclusive education. By swapping stigmatising, separate devices for green-screened langu...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we meet Steve Archer! As a full-time Year 5 teacher and official Canvassador, Steve blends his daily classroom reality with cutting-edge EdTech to completely revitalise the primary curriculum. By swapping tired worksheets for AI-generated Viking avatars and pupil-coded m...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we meet Cat Lamin! Cat is an extraordinary educational leader and Google Certified Innovator who currently drives global impact as a Senior Education Consultant at Canopy while championing educator wellbeing, as seen through her pioneering work with the Global GEG Mental...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we meet Leif Thobroe! Leif Thobroe is a Welsh advocate and community leader known for his resilience and dedication to empowering disabled people. Originally from Swansea, his life changed in 2015 when a spinal injury during a rugby match resulted in paralysis of his rig...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we meet Jenny Martin! After an accidental 25-year tech career, Jenny is now blending a "dirty secret" psychology degree with Agile expertise to prove that kindness and neuroinclusion are the ultimate leadership power moves. From LEGO Serious Play to her "OOPSI" framework...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we are chatting all about BETT, answering all of your questions, and interviewing your favourite guests! Got a question for us? Drop us a message, or check out our dedicated podcast website at https://digitize-fully-charged.podcastpage.io/ We’re so excited to introduce y...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. This episode is a Christmas Special, and it’s a little different. Instead of a guest, I opened the floor to questions from educators, parents, and curious humans — and some of them go right to the heart of learning, creativity, AI, and what’s really happening in our classrooms....

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we are joined by the incredible Heather Aird. Heather is a dedicated advocate for inclusive education, skilfully embedding Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and assistive technology into mainstream classrooms to support diverse learners. Her global impact is evident th...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we are joined by the incredible Andy McLaughlin. Andy is a highly respected Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen whose career path took a fascinating, "squiggly" turn - starting with a decade in complex IT infrastructure and networking before pivoting to become a teach...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we are joined by the incredible Stuart Naismith. Stuart is a multi-award-winning educator celebrated for his contributions to STEM education, despite holding no formal STEM background initially! His career trajectory dramatically shifted following a car accident, which p...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we are joined by the incredible Jonathon Simons. Jonathon is an ex-Jewish Studies teacher who made waves with his decade-ahead digital education teaching techniques, and is now running his own company ( Code Inventorz ) offering robotics, 3D printing and coding clubs to...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we are joined by the incredible Caroline Keep. Caroline is an award-winning Teacher, AI & Edtech Researcher, and Data Scientist. She is currently completing her PhD research at The University of Lancashire - crafting a unique Neurodivergent Edu/Tech narrative. Got a...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we are joined by the incredible Gary Jamieson. Gary is the Schools Development Officer at the V&A Dundee, and is making a huge difference to learners all across Scotland - around 10,000 kids every year! Gary has an incredible story to share all about his journey from...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we are joined by the incredible Eilidh MacDonald. Eilidh is a primary teacher with eight years’ experience, currently working with P1–3. She is passionate about edtech, play-based pedagogy, and creating inclusive, neurodivergent-friendly classrooms. Over the past year, s...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we are joined by the incredible James Hood. James has been a massive friend to Niall and Pam over the years and we’ve been huge fans of his work for a number of years. James has been THE name in Scottish eSports for a while now, and is currently the Head of Business Deve...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game 🚀 Today, we are joined by the incredible Eric Curts. Eric has been in education for 33 years, and currently serves as a Technology Integration Specialist for SPARCC in North Canton, Ohio. He also provides keynotes, professional development, and consulting for schools, organisat...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast – where we energise educators, spark new ideas, and level up your digital skills in education. In this episode, we’re joined by the brilliant Larisa Black. Larisa is an experienced virtual teacher for a publicly funded charter school in South Carolina, delivering all her learning online for the past nine years — long before the world shifted to remote...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast – where we energise educators, spark new ideas, and level up your digital skills in education. In this episode, we’re joined by the brilliant Tavs Laurie. Tavs is a Head Teacher in the Scottish Highlands to an off-grid school of 8 pupils, and is unreachable by vehicle! Tavs shares his unique experiences, including how his school is powered by a wind tu...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we are joined by the incredible Harriet Benbow. Harriet is a Rising Star award winner and digital learning champion with a passion for making education more accessible and inclusive. From empowering technophobe teachers to exploring the potential of AI in the classroom,...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, the incredible Kirsteen Steven talks to us about her 20-year journey as a Primary Teacher before transitioning to CALL Scotland at the University of Edinburgh, her passion for technology which began with her volunteering to install the first Interactive Whiteboard in her...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, the incredible Aileen Wallace talks to us about her background as an EdTech doubter, her pirouette from dancer to teacher, and the impact that AI tools have made on her students and colleagues. Got a question for us? Drop us a message, or check out our dedicated podcast...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, the incredible Dean Stokes talks to us about his past careers at Google for Education and Adobe, AI, and his background as one of the best speakers we’ve ever had the pleasure of listening to. Got a question for us? Drop us a message, or check out our dedicated podcast w...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, Niall takes us through a handful of questions that we’ve been asked over the last wee while via DM. Got a question for us? Drop us a message, or check out our dedicated podcast website at https://digitize-fully-charged.podcastpage.io/ We’re so excited to introduce you to...

Welcome to the Digitize Fully Charged Podcast, where we energise listeners, spark inspiration, and top-up your tech-game. Today, we’re joined by the incredible Ben Rouse. Ben is a strategy workshop facilitator, former maths teacher and EdTech trainer. He transitioned from training teachers on tech to facilitating strategy for a range of organisations with his own company, Evolving Design. Ben is a...