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What's in this episode?

1. Announcing an official media partnership with the SXSWedu® Conference & Festival
2. In conversation with Richard Taylor, UK-based angel-investor in c.12 edtech start ups
3. Recorded at Bett, you’ll hear what Taylor believes are:
   1. The 3 lessons for edtech success
   2. What he thinks of accelerators, distributors and teacher pension schemes
   3. And why he thinks part of our latest obsession with coding is a red herring.

Sample Quotes (@dick_taylor)

 

 

• Investing in early stage start ups is like a horse race. Only the horse race takes seven years and half of them you need to take out and shoot.
• Sometimes you make money but actually the better lesson is when you lose money.
• When I first started in education i didn't really care what it was or if it had any impact. If it made money that was all I really cared about.
• The ones that are more likely to be successful are the ones that have a teacher in the founding team
• 'When schools buy or use edtech there is a big cost, but also a big opportunity cost.’
• 'Schools buy million pounds worth of stuff pretty much how the local football club buy sausage rolls for their fundraising night' 

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References:

• Jackaroo: a young man working on a sheep or cattle station to gain experience. Rose Luckin https://twitter.com/knowldgillusion 
• Roland Fryer, Harvard University: http://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/home ; https://twitter.com/HarvardEcon 
• DFE Centre for procurement: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/procurement ; 
• Tom Bennett: https://twitter.com/tombennett71 
• Minecraft: https://twitter.com/Minecraft   Edcomms: https://twitter.com/edcoms  Tim Pearson: http://www.agent4change.net/news/184-rm-boss-tim-pearson-stands-down-after-six-years   Dame Marjorie Scardino: https://twitter.com/marjscar   Cambridge assessment: https://twitter.com/Cam_Assessment 
• ed:invent: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKkDDmBhInMqM31EUjZTYw/videos 
• Rear admiral Grace Hopper: http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/Files/hopper-story.html  Night Zookeeper: https://twitter.com/nightzookeeper  Hells Angels: https://twitter.com/HELLS_ANGELS_81  Matt Robb, EY Parthenon: https://twitter.com/matthewrobb701 ;@Parthenon_EY  Nandos: https://twitter.com/NandosUK  StudyLadder: https://www.studyladder.com/ ; https://twitter.com/studyladder_t  Clever: https://twitter.com/clever  Show my Homework: https://twitter.com/Showmyhomework   Emerge Education: https://twitter.com/emergelab 
• Jan Matern: https://twitter.com/janmatern   4.0 schools: https://twitter.com/4pt0schools  Start Up Weekend: https://twitter.com/StartupWeekend   Wayra: https://twitter.com/WayraUK   Naomi Klein: https://twitter.com/NaomiAKlein   Theresa May: https://twitter.com/theresa_may  Curriculum Online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curriculum_Online   BBC Jam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Jam  BBC Micro:bit: https://twitter.com/microbit_edu  Technology Will Save Us: https://twitter.com/techwillsaveus   Oliver Quinlan: https://twitter.com/oliverquinlan  Ontario Teachers Pension Plan: https://www.otpp.com/ ; https://twitter.com/OtppInfo  Learn Capital: https://twitter.com/learncap  Deborah Quazzo: https://twitter.com/deborahquazzo   DC Thomson: https://twitter.com/dctventures 
• Patient Capital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_capital  The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: https://www.amazon.co.uk/22-Immutable-Laws-Marketing/dp/1861976100 ; https://twitter.com/jacktrout 
• Viv.ai: http://viv.ai/ ; https://twitter.com/dagk 
• Samsung: https://twitter.com/samsung  Codeclub: https://twitter.com/CodeClub  Primo Toys: https://twitter.com/primotoys  Schools of the Air:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Air  JCStobart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Stobart 

 

 

Announcing Media Partnership with SXSWedu® Conference & Festival

The Edtech Podcast will attend the seventh annual SXSWedu® Conference & Festival in Austin, March 6-9, 2017 to document the passionate and diverse community of education stakeholders brought together across its four days of programming. As part of our media partnership, listeners can access a $50 discount on tickets by going to http://sxswedu.com/ and entering the code reg-edu-etp_c5173c53f9 at check-out! Shout out @podcastedtech if you're going and use the code :) 

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