#58 - Edtech Trends at Bett 2017 (2/3)

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• ICT Connect 21 and The Japanese association for the promotion of education technology on why Britain is helping with the renewal of their curriculum after ten years, coding and cramming schools. 

• The Bloodhound Project on inspiring the next generation of engineers, thrust, and Tainted Love. 

• Digital leader students from Islington schools on what they want from education technology

• Mobile Gaming start up Wibbu on why gaming is the key to longer engagement for language learners

• The Bafta Young Game Designers and a new Nintendo employee on how teachers can help young people get into the creative and high-revenue gaming industry

• Bett Award winners Digiexam on drawing the university examination process away from paper

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Sample quotations: 

Yoshimi Ishizaka, ICT Connect 21

• The Japanese education system is relatively centralised 
• The after school education is so active; not only the physical classroom, but online
• The National Standard curriculum is raised every 10 years; 2020 - the concept of the revision is active learning 
• Starting a programming class will be so tough. We came to england to learn your experiences
• Many edtech venture companies have recently started in Japan. The after school market is so big. The b2c market rather than b2school.
• Another problem is the Japanese teachers are so busy. Too busy!
• If some technology can reduce their burden…that’s very great.

Rob Bennett, Bloodhound 

• What are we watching? We are watching kids get inspired and engaged about rocket cars! 
• Engineers: people who use technology to solve problems as, of course, we all do on planet earth from the day we are born
• How am I, the most complicated computer in the world going to solve problems? I need equations. 
• I am from the land of the free and brave: Cornwall.
• We are like the starship enterprise, going boldly where no man has ever done. We will prove the science and we will do it safely.
• Produce 9 tonnes of thrust, just pop it down the run way.
• We are communicating the language of maths which are universal 

Children from Islington Schools 

• Franklin, 11 years old, Newington Green Primary School 
• ‘I’ve seen VR headsets, different robots.’ 

• Matthew, Newington Green Primary School
• ‘I enjoyed the robot one.’ 
• What gets you engaged? ‘ICT’ 

• Nor, 
• A digital leader is responsible for technology and ICT. They are one of the good people.’ 

• Jackson, Alexandra Palance Secondry School 
• ‘I like the robotics.’ 

 Dean Jacobs, Wibbu 

• We’re a group of game developers and linguists and language teachers who have come together to modernise the way people learns languages.
• I’ve always been in love with languages.
• Our philosophy is about long term engagement with language learning 
• We had a concept game out last year. We had a quarter of a million downloads and went to the number one in the apps store education category in 20 countries. 
• I think it’s really exciting for publishers. I don’t think they’ve seen something which is so gamified. 

Melissa Philipps, BAFTA Young Games Designer of the Year 

• There are brand new games design courses opening up all over the country 
• I’m a big believer in the see it be it 

Kai Mulligan Oliver, Nintendo

• I think its so much easier to be creative now. Being creative digitally is so much in the minds of young people these days
• The tools are now democratised. you don’t need to code. 
• In the indie scene i know lots of people haven’t done degrees

Gustaf Nordback, DigiExam

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References: 

• Bett Show: https://twitter.com/Bett_show
• Micro:bit: https://twitter.com/microbit_edu 
• Crowlands Primary School: https://twitter.com/CrowlandsPS 
• Panasonic: https://twitter.com/panasonic
• NEC: https://twitter.com/NEC ]
• Fujitsu: https://twitter.com/Fujitsu_Global 
• Hitachi: https://twitter.com/HitachiGlobal 
• Dave Smith: https://twitter.com/
• UK Digital Strategy:https://t.co/wb66BQdEIf 
• RocketFund: https://twitter.com/RocketFundUK  Edspace: https://twitter.com/EdspaceHoxton  ICT connect: https://ictconnect21.jp/  Info@ictconnect21.jp JPET: https://www.jset.gr.jp/english/president/  Khan Academy: https://twitter.com/khanacademy   Blood Hound Edu: https://twitter.com/bloodhound_Edu  Bloodhound_SSC https://twitter.com/bloodhound_SSC Katy Potts: https://twitter.com/katypotts  Cornwall council: https://twitter.com/CornwallCouncil   racefortheline.com  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trevithick  http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/project/team/andy-green  http://newingtongreen.co.uk/  http://www.alexandrapark.school/ 
• Bafta YGD: https://twitter.com/BAFTAGames  Wibbu: https://twitter.com/wibbu_studios  Lightneer: https://twitter.com/LightneerInc  Duolingo: https://twitter.com/duolingo  Busuu: https://twitter.com/busuu  Abertay university: https://twitter.com/AbertayUni  Falmouth university: https://twitter.com/FalmouthUni  The Chinese room: https://twitter.com/ChineseRoom  Gina Jackson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-jackson-7b74392/  Jessica Curry: https://twitter.com/jessicacurry2  Rhinana Pratchett: https://twitter.com/rhipratchett  Ray Chambers: https://twitter.com/Lanky_Boi_Ray  Minecraft: https://twitter.com/Minecraft  Deck bound: https://twitter.com/deckbound  Maker space south London: https://twitter.com/LDN_Makerspace  Sonic: https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog  Finnal fantasy seven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII  Media molecule: https://twitter.com/mediamolecule  Dan Pearce: https://twitter.com/GameDesignDan  Bett awards: https://twitter.com/BettAwards 
• Digiexam: https://twitter.com/DigiExam 

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