The EdTech Hour

This week is a slightly different format. Daley catches up with John Cowell for a freeform chat about the state of education technology today. John is Head of Computing at an independent school in the North West of England. He’s also an Education Technology Consultant working in schools all over the UK to help them transform their approach to learning. Show highlights: - Student independent learning – why making teachers uncomfortable is a good thing in the classroom - How possible is it to...

For Episode 10 of the podcast, we welcome Nathalie Richards from Edukit. They're a social enterprise that help schools raise attainment by offering instant online access to development programmes for pupils aged 5 to 19 Show highlights: - Learn how young people can all realise their potential - How the Premier League frames its basic skills programme to engage young people - Why schools need outside help to engage all of their pupils - Why a lot of pupil premium spend isn’t ‘new money’ - Why...

Episode 009 of the podcast lands with a couple of great edtech startups out of The States; Panopen (https://panopen.panopen.com/) and Ellevation (http://ellevationeducation.com/) - a company just 5 years young that's just been financially backed by Steve Jobs' Widow and Mark Zuckerberg. We also cover off some big changes in Higher Education regarding Apple technology, why Google is all giddy about the Internet of Things and what the hell EdTech has to do with social capital. This week's...