What’s featured in this episode? 

• How much investment does Emerge Education have for your teacherpreneur idea?
• New investment in Emerge Education from Oxford University Press and China’s Qtone EdTech company
• The EdTech start up opportunity in Asia 
• Meet the teams behind Edspace and Emerge Education 
• Find out about EdTech start-ups: medical training platform Open Simulation and parental engagement company, Easy Peasy
• Understand how Ark and Oasis academy chains are working with EdTech start ups to inform and access service innovation and how Hackney Community College is beta testing products 
• Balancing pedagogical integrity with commercial reality and vice versa 
• Find out what conditions are important for EdTech business success globally 
• Find out the main findings of an early years experiment by renowned psychologist Walter Mischel
• How can an app help aid higher grades at school, bigger salaries at work and longer and more sustained relationships at home, by getting ‘kids ready to learn for school’?
• Start up efficacy trials with Oxford University
• The growing Ofsted priority of parental engagement 
• How EdTech is helping with the problem of scaling surgical training via augmented reality
• Classlist crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube
• 40% discount offer for listeners to attend EdtechEurope

 

Thank you to supporters: 

This weeks episode is brought to you by Classlist and EdtechEurope      

 

Quotations:

• ‘There’s something very magical happening at the beginning which sets the trajectory for our futures.’ - @EasyPeasyApp 
• ‘Half (of school ready children) are not ready to learn because they lack these basic skills; concentration, self-control, getting on well with peers, resilience.’  - via @EasyPeasyApp 
• ‘Could EasyPeasy support social mobility?’ That’s our mission.’  -via @EasyPeasyApp
• ‘It’s really becoming the hub for EdTech start ups in the UK.’ - via @EdspaceHoxton 
• ‘The connection with the college is great. The principal is very entrepreneurial. If we are co-located we have more of an opportunity to build and grow things together.’  - via @EdspaceHoxton
• ‘We work with a network of school chains; Ark and Oasis academies, for example. They will trial the products, give feedback, potentially become first customers’ - @EmergeLabs
• ‘There are 5 million people in the world today who won’t have access to safe and affordable surgery.’ - via @OpenSimulation 
• ‘We need to drastically increase surgical training and the surgical workforce.’  - via @OpenSimulation 
• ‘We started with a pizza box; from a pizza box we moved to a box file to the current wooden box. The idea that we want to share with the world is you don’t need high end complex things…you just need your mobile phone, a cardboard box and you could learn how to perform a surgery.’ 

 

Reading and resources: 

 

Emerge Education

Edspace 

Open Simulation 

Easy Peasy 

BESA 

Sir Adrian Smith 

Crawford Report 

Qtone

Oxford University Press

Walter Mischel