• Thank you to this week's sponsors Japan Prize 2017 Glisser Edu and ClassCentral! 
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• We are at ASU GSV and Katapult Tech this week 

What's in this episode?

• We’re talking about: Where is money currently being invested into edtech? What are the various accelerators/incubators focusing on and why? How does edtech differ from Vietnam to Israel to Japan to the USA?

• Introduction and recording with the Japan Prize 1-9.00. Enter The Japan Prize Edu Resources - it's free and you might get flown to Tokyo! (more details below). 

• Interviews with Matt Candler, Founder + CEO, 4.0 Schools
  Chian Gong, Investor, Reach Capital
  Phil Kim, Co-Founder, Michelson Runway EdTech Accelerator | President, The Michelson 20MM Foundation
  Mayra Lombera, Director, Strategic Initiatives, The Michelson 20MM Foundation
  Avi Warshavsky, CEO at MindCET
  Tomoko Haneda, Afrel Co. , Ltd. on behalf of Edtech Japan
  T.T. Nguyen Duc, VC, Pearson Affordable Learning Fund

 

• Message from Class Central 
• Message from Glisser Edu

Sample quotations:

How do you measure an idea when it’s in that early phase? 

A lot of that capital exists in fairly old school publishers which are very much incentivised to continue in the existing system. 

I believe in the power of students as teachers.

We’re really thinking about getting students from cradle to college

There were definitely moments where school wasn’t that great for me.

As an alternative to student debt, we could invest in the future of students through an equity vehicle.

We are putting together an investors table or fund, investing in start ups in Israel and the UK 

The You Tubers are the new teachers. They are like rockstars.

Messages from The Edtech Podcast:

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References:  

• Enter The Japan Prize: The Japan Prize Edu Resources
• The Edtech Podcast at London Edtech Week
• ASU GSV Summit: https://twitter.com/asugsvsummit 
• Matt Candler https://twitter.com/mcandler 
• 4.0 Schools https://twitter.com/4pt0schools 
• Chian Gong: https://twitter.com/ChianChirps 
• Reach Capital: https://twitter.com/reachfund 
• Phil Kim, Co-Founder, Michelson Runway EdTech Accelerator: https://twitter.com/MichelsonRunway
• President, The Michelson 20MM Foundation: https://twitter.com/Michelson20mm 
• Mayra Lombera, Director, Strategic Initiatives, The Michelson 20MM Foundation: https://twitter.com/Mayra_Lombera 
• Avi Warshavsky: https://twitter.com/aviwarshavsky
• CEO at MindCET:https://twitter.com/MindCET 
• Tomoko Haneda: https://twitter.com/tropicana_ave
• Afrel Co. , Ltd. on behalf of Edtech Japan: https://twitter.com/EdTech_Japan 
• T.T. Nguyen Duc: https://twitter.com/ttnguyenduc
• VC, Pearson Affordable Learning Fund: https://twitter.com/AffordableLearn 
• Walton family foundation: https://twitter.com/WaltonFamilyFdn 
• Kauffman foundation: https://twitter.com/KauffmanFDN 
• Gates Foundation: https://twitter.com/gatesfoundation
• Patrick Taylor foundation: http://www.pftaylorfoundation.org/ 
• The Booth-Bricker Fund
• Lisa Delpit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Delpit 
• Stephen Johnson Where good ideas come from
  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-Innovation-x/dp/0141033401 
• Green Tech Media, The Energy Gang: https://www.greentechmedia.com/podcast/the-energy-gang 
• Nearpod: https://twitter.com/nearpod 
• New Schools Venture Fund: https://twitter.com/nsvf 
• Dreamit: https://twitter.com/dreamit
• LearnLaunch: https://twitter.com/LearnLaunch
• Intel: https://twitter.com/IntelEDU 
• Newsela: https://twitter.com/Newsela 
• ClassDojo: https://twitter.com/ClassDojo
• Edsurge: https://twitter.com/EdSurge
• School mint: https://twitter.com/school_mint
• Rice University: https://twitter.com/RiceUniversity
• Hewlett foundation: https://twitter.com/Hewlett_Found 
• University Ventures Fund: https://twitter.com/UniVenturesFund
• Pearson: https://twitter.com/pearson
• McGraw-Hill:  https://twitter.com/MHEducation
• Pets: https://twitter.com/pets4ok
• Primo Toys: https://twitter.com/primotoys 
• The Edtech Podcast Spring Playlist! 
• Message from Class Central
• Message from Glisser Edu 

Thank you to this week's sponsors!

Enter The Japan Prize 2017!...

Submit your best work to inspire the future of learning. The JAPAN PRIZE is hosted by Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK. The Contest is the world’s only international competition that focuses solely on educational media. These may include games, apps, websites, and films.During the final selection in Tokyo in October, there are contents screenings and exhibition, a creators’ workshop, and a professional conference. All these events aim to explore how innovation in media can impact the future of education. For more information and entry forms please visit our website: www.nhk.or.jp/jp-prize/ The deadline for entries is June 30th 2017. You can also check them out on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JapanPrize.NHK/ 

Next up, a word from ClassCentral which if you’re into geeking out over online learning and MOOC reports like I am you’ll probably already know about! 

It's been more than half a decade since free online courses from Stanford kicked off the modern-MOOC or massive online open courses movement. Since then more than 700 universities around the world have launched MOOCS, used by over 60 million people. Gaining insight into this fast paced world is worth spending time on (especially for those implicated by such changes). That’s where Class Central comes in.    Class Central launched at the end of 2011, and has kept track of the MOOC space right from the beginning. Not only does it list 7000+ courses, making it the #1 search engine for online courses, but the excellent MOOC report blog has deep analysis on what’s up, down, new or just slightly leftfield. With over 500+ articles written, Class Central has the most comprehensive coverage of the MOOC Industry.   I came across Class Central when I was preparing for a Department for International Trade webinar I was speaking on and found it invaluable. Since then, I met founder Dhawal Shah out at SXSWedu and he was excited to share the resource with all of you. So definitely go and check it out at www.class-central.com/report/ and let me know what you think! 

This is an easy one for me as I regularly use Glisser at events because I frankly find it a bit WEIRD when there are people staring at you but you ignore them! Glisser is an audience engagement platform, and they also have an education offer for socialising lectures where they take regular PowerPoint or Keynote presentations and push each slide out live to student’s mobile devices as they are presented. Professors, administrators and students get valuable data on where information is really engaging, or needs reworking and staff and students can interact through the deck. You can check them out at https://www.glisser.com/student-engagement/ 

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