Edufuturists

We are joined by Dean and Jeff from VIZOR. VIZOR integrates with the Google Admin Console to keep track of your Chromebook inventory and repairs.    For an exclusive Edufuturists offer for 20% off for your first year, go to vizor.cloud/edu   Jeff is a Sales exec from the North American offices working out of Atlanta and Montreal. Jeff works daily with School Districts throughout the US, which is the majority of Vizor customers. Dean leads marketing for VIZOR and will represent VIZOR’s features. Any questions on how Schools use VIZOR and the benefits can be directed at Jeff who can provide some anecdotes, any functional product questions to Dean.   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/edufuturists/id1347592880

Nicolas Cole is 4x Top Writer on Quora, founder of Digital Press and has over 50M+ views on Substack. We are delighted to be joined by this pioneer in social writing. Watch this episode on Spotify and on YouTube 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/edufuturists/id1347592880

Levi Belnap serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Merlyn Mind. As a serial-entrepreneur, Levi has led the creation of innovative new technology ventures within existing organizations and as independent venture-backed startups. Prior to joining Merlyn Mind, Levi was the VP of Business Development & Strategic Partnerships at Wyzant. At Wyzant, Levi led the creation of new business opportunities to bring Wyzant’s marketplace of 80,000 expert tutors to more students. This included a breakthrough new business model with higher education institutions using targeted tutoring interventions to increase student retention rates from 70% to 90% for their most at-risk students. Levi was the founder & CEO of FindIt, a venture-backed mobile search company focused on multivariate visual search across cloud repositories to simplify human-computer interaction and improve collaboration and knowledge transfer in the workplace. Levi earned a BA in Political Science and Arabic from Brigham Young University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he studied innovation under the late Professor Clayton Christensen. Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter  Check out all past episodes and find out more  Subscribe on iTunes 

In this episode Dan and Ben discuss Web3. What does it mean, why is it different and what are the potential opportunities?    Subscribe on YouTube Follow us on Twitter  Check out all past episodes and find out more  Subscribe on iTunes 

Mark is the UK's leading authority on teaching for mastery. He has trained over 2000 schools in mastery models for schooling in the UK and overseas.   A leading figure in mathematics education, Mark has led many large-scale government education initiatives, both in the UK and overseas. Mark was a Director at the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) and has also been a school leader, an Advanced Skills Teacher, a school inspector and a teacher trainer. He founded and was Chairman of the Teacher Development Trust.   Mark has extensive experience of mathematics teaching and learning across all age and ability groups, having taught students from age 3 to PhD. Mark is the author of several books, including the best-selling Teaching for Mastery, in which he outlined his long-held belief that all pupils can learn well.

In this episode Ben, Dan and Steve discuss their desire to learn how to survive, how a life of learning fits in with having children and the evolution of their relationship as Edufuturists.

So we are delighted today to be joined by Ed Kirwan, CEO and founder of Empathy Week

Tonight’s episode is a collab. We are delighted to be joined by Phil, Andy & Dave, also known as the Talking Cod lads from the podcast Talking Cod. You can subscribe to the Talking Cod podcast on your podcast app.

We are delighted to be joined by Jo Maher, Principal & CEO of Loughborough College, and former senior leader at Boston College and Reaseheath College. With a background in sports psychology, Jo has worked with athletes from grassroots to Olympic standard and with professional sports teams, alongside her work in education. She has been a Youth Commissioner for the Learning and Work Institute, a Trustee of the Skills Education Group and was lead psychologist for World Skills Team UK.   Jo has regularly contributed to the Times Educational Supplement, has delivered conference speeches to the Federation of Awarding Bodies and Skills Education Group and has chaired a forum on implementing technical and vocational education reform. Her essay on apprenticeships reform was part of a House of Commons debate.

We are delighted to be joined by May Jue, who is currently a program manager at Google for Education (she has been at Google for 6+ years now!) and leads the Trainer and GEG programs. She was born and grew up in Hsinchu, Taiwan and moved to California when she was 12. May then graduated from UC Berkeley with a business major and education minor and worked in finance for a few years before becoming a high school math teacher in San Jose, California. During her off hours, May loves to spend time with her husband Casey and 2.5year old baby girl Joyelle!    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/edufuturists/id1347592880