Edufuturists

Les McBeth is an educator on a mission to empower students to solve the world's big problems. With 15 years of experience at the intersection of design and education, Les has worked in design and public policy in Switzerland and NYC and as a teacher in Toronto. As Director of Special Projects at Future Design School, Les designs programs and products that help educators and school leaders break do...

A few weeks ago people using the online forum Reddit managed to drive up the stock price of an American company called Gamestop, which lost a lot of Wall Street investors billions of dollars. This worldwide news was on our screens for days and had a lot of commentators hailing a revolution for the stock market.  With our guest Jamie Smith, we are going to delve into what happened, what it all...

We are delighted to be joined today by Martin Illingworth. Martin is Senior Lecturer in English Education at Sheffield Hallam University and Associate with Independent Thinking. Martin is a consultant for The National Association for the Teaching of English and a regular speaker for Independent thinking. His first book ‘Think before you Teach’ urges teachers to reflect deeply on their motivation a...

We are delighted to be joined today by Professor Rachel lofthouse. Rachel is a Professor of Teacher Education and Director of CollectivED at Leeds Beckett University. Rachel has 30 years experience  as a teacher, teacher educator, writer and researcher, and is working weekly with students, teachers and school leaders as well as being involved in a range of European projects. She is passionate...

#TeacherHugRadio @Edufuturists @TeacherHugRadio The Edufuturists launch show for TeacherHugRadio.com which aired on 31st January. In this special episode about the exam fiasco of the last 10 months we are joined by Lord Jim Knight, Laura McInerney, David Price OBE and Dr. Debra Kidd. After 10 months of dithering and delay in England on many political issues, one important decision that teachers up...

We are delighted to be joined today by Paul Dix. Paul is an Award-winning Behaviour Specialist who has helped schools all over the world transform their behaviour policies. He is author of the book “When the adults change, everything changes” and leads the very popular Ban the booths campaign. Paul starts a new venture this coming weekend when his new radio station for teachers, Teacher Hug Radio,...

We are delighted to be joined today by Bob Harrison who has had extensive experience in schools and colleges as a teacher, lecturer, senior manager, principal and governor. Bob was recently shortlisted for the TES FE “Lifetime Achievement award” for services to Further, Vocational and Adult Education. You can join his following on twitter @bobharrisonedu

We are delighted to be joined today by our good friend, Al Kingsley, Managing Director of NetSupport Group. Al joins us to talk about educational leadership and learning during lockdowns and into the future.    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/edu...

Kenyatta Forbes is the former Edu Content Manager for Google for Education where she managed content across the Google Teacher Center, Chromebook App Hub, Google Certified Exams Level 1/2, and Google’s Edu Equity Initiatives.  She now works as Great Lakes Senior District Manager - Adoptions for Nearpod and Flocabulary. Kenyatta spent two years working with Mozilla Foundation as a Community Ma...

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ais8vbEeGcg We are joined in this episode by Bukky Yusuf and Mark Anderson. Bukky is a senior leader, science teacher and coach. She is also a Network Leader and coach for WomenEd & BAMEEd. She is a judge for The EdTech50 Schools, BETT Awards and serving as an Education Board Member for Innovate My School.  She is a co-chair of the EdTech Le...

We are delighted to be joined by Ben Owens and Adam Haigler from Open Way Learning - the co-authors of Open Up Education and pioneers in innovative education from the USA. Ben Owens worked as a mechanical engineer for a multinational corporation for 20 years before becoming a STEM teacher for 11 years in rural Appalachia. While at Tri-County Early College, he helped transform the school into one t...

We are joined by the brilliant Laura McInerney, a former teacher and editor of Schools Week, who has spent over 12 years on the frontline of education policy and interviewed over 60 top education names — from Dylan Wiliam to Carol Dweck to Amanda Spielman. Laura has keynoted at events such as The Education Festival, the Headteachers Roundtable Summit and the BETT show and since 2013, has been a co...

We are joined by Mike Feerick, CEO and Founder of Alison.com. Mike is an internationally recognised and award-winning social entrepreneur. He is a key figure within the education industry and believes that free, accessible learning is the answer to many of the world’s problems and the solution lies within education. Mike started the business in 2007 as an avenue to increase employability for all....

Watch the episode on Youtube We are joined by Davis Chen, VP of Engineering at Kneron, a San Diego based AI solutions provider. Davis spent 21 years at Qualcomm and was the former Taipei Head of Engineering. In his time there, he managed six business units including Mobile, IOT/XR, Compute, Connectivity, Auto, and Audio, and won eight Qualcomm Annual Achievement Awards. Davis has a Master’s Degree...

We are delighted to be joined by Amber Harper, the creator of Burned-In Teacher and author of Hacking Teacher Burnout. Amber is a Teacher Burnout Coach, she coaches educators to help prevent and/or recover from burnout, so that they can live happier, more fulfilled lives. Amber is driven by her desire to support teachers to ensure that this current career and this one life they have, is the best,...

We are delighted to be joined by two pioneers in a brand new innovation, known as The Critical Engineer. Louise Jones is a regular guest on the podcast and is Founder of Cairngorm Futures & Director of Education Community and Partnerships at ThingLink. Paul Fagan is Head of Enterprise and Employability at West College Scotland and one of The Critical Engineer Founders.   Find out more and sign up...

We are delighted to be joined by David Jones has over 30 years experience in FE/HE, most recently 16 outstanding years as CEO at Coleg Cambria. He stepped down in January to pursue a range of consultancy and non-exec roles. David was a key presenter at our New, Next or Never Normal roundtable in June to launch a report he compiled of the same name, which we will discuss today. We asked about how t...

Watch the video of this episode at https://youtu.be/mamE9OR1k3o We are delighted to be joined by Liz Pemberton, known on social media and education circles as The Black Nursery Manager. She is super active in the EYFS setting. Liz has worked in Early Years for over 16 years but has had experience in secondary teaching (Health & Social Care, Childcare & Drama) and university lecturing. She...

In this episode we are delighted to be joined by Debra Kidd. Debra has worked across primary, secondary, FE and HE settings and is the author of four books on education. She works internationally now, in and out of classrooms with children and teachers, exploring how to make learning matter. Watch the video of this podast here https://youtu.be/B98pPjC1P1E www.edufuturists.com

We have a really exciting episode today and we have the CEO of Texthelp Martin McKay. Martin founded Texthelp in 1996 to help people with communication difficulties. What started as a company focused on people with profound Speech and Dexterity Disabilities has become a world leading Education Technology company creating smart, inclusive software that helps people read, write, express their though...

All of our guests in this episode were involved in London Tech Week. Our first guest is Professor Mischa Dohler from King's College London. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Distinguished Member of Harvard Square Leaders Excellence. Our second guest is Gori Yahaya Founder an...

In this episode we are joined live by Professor Mick Waters. Mick worked at a national level with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority where he was Director of Curriculum.

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Watch the video of this episode at https://youtu.be/7vDmOM1Eeio Many of our guests and listeners have told us they want to hear the voices of the students to let us know how they think the future of education might look. So we listened! We are glad to be joined by students (and staff) from Cheam Common Junior Academy in Surrey, part of the LEO Academy Trusts.  As an EdTech Demonstrator School...