#81 - How can Edtech Drive School Improvement?

#81 - How can Edtech Drive School Improvement?

A panel discussion run by the British Educational Suppliers Association during London Edtech Week 2016, recorded for The Edtech Podcast. Listen here.

Hello and welcome everyone. From apps that are aspiring to be the Uber of supply teaching, to cutting-edge platforms and assessment tools allowing school data to be analysed in innovative new ways, many EdTech companies are aiming to enhance teaching and learning experiences across the UK and in doing so, transform the way that schools operate – saving them both time and money. As well as playing a unprecedented role in helping to raise standards of attainment; and improving the quality of what is taught and how it is taught.

This week's episode looks at all of these things and the UK's standing in edtech, alongside an increasing attraction to international expansion opportunities. I hope you enjoy! (Plus, don't forget to check out the reference links below, for more guest suggestions and reading on this topic.) 

Included:

• Message from this week's sponsors Qatar Foundation International and Unio by Harness
• Sophie Bailey introduction: Win a free pass to China's biggest edtech event by listening to this week's episode and answering our competition question!
• Andrea Carr, Managing Director, Rising Stars
• Naimish Gohil, Founder and CEO of Show My Homework powered by Satchel
• Vini Bance, CEO and founder of Worktu
• Mark Dorling, Educator and founder of the Digital School House project
• Tracy Goodway, Head of School Improvement, EES for Schools
• Sophie Bailey outro - what's on next week's episode? 

Sample quotes: 

We need to drive efficiencies within our schools so we can save money and spend that money on having more teachers in classrooms with our kids, as thats what schools are all about 

Edtech as a term means more to policy makers, incubators than to schools  

There’s a famous saying for those teachers here, y’know, consistency leads to outstanding outcomes 

References: 

• BESA
• Emran Mian - Twitter
• Department for Education
• How the impact of EdTech is currently measured in the classroom: a BESA report
• Caroline Wright - Twitter
• Andrea Carr - Twitter
• Rising Stars
• Mark Dorling
• Mark Dorling - Twitter
• Digital Scorehouse
• Computing at School
• EES for Schools
• EES for Schools - School Effectiveness+
• Worktu
• Satchel
• Show My Homework
• ICT & Computing in Education
• TES
• Plum Innovations
• SSAT - Schools, Students and Teachers Network
• MirandaNet
• Nesta
• EDUCATE
• Miles Berry
• Bethnal Green Ventures
• Emerge Education Accelerator
• Whizz
• Titus Learning
• EdTech Special Interest Group
• Language Magnet
• UK Israel EdTech Task Force
• Educational App Store

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Unio is an interactive lesson delivery and assessment platform, designed with teachers to promote excellence in teaching and learning. Based around shared online screens between teachers and students, Unio makes it easy to personalise learning and assess progress at a glance.

Teachers can:

• Create an interactive lesson by uploading an existing PowerPoint, Word or PDF.
• Display lessons and live annotations on all student screens.
• Assess understanding with self-marking quizzes.
• Take control of any student’s screen to provide targeted feedback which students can access after class.

 Get involved here:

1. Sign up for a free account on Unio by visiting www.uniobyharness.com
2. Unio love to hear from teachers or senior leaders in education and welcome you to get in touch via email or Twitter at nihal.salah@uniobyharness.com or @uniobyharness

Qatar Foundation International (QFI), LLC, is a U.S.-based member of Qatar Foundation (QF). QFI operates as both a grant-making organization, and a convener of thought leaders on issues related to global and international education, open education and education technologies as they intersect with the three core QFI programmatic areas: Arabic language and Arab culture, STE{A}M (STEM plus the Arts), and Youth Engagement. 

Go to: http://www.qfi.org/

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• The 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, taking place 5-7 September 2017, University of Liverpool, UK. More here
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