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• Intro -
  • Ovum’s Future Edtech event 13-14 June, London. Free tickets for Universities here and 10% discount for non-Unis quoting code edpod/10 here
  • Full Fabric's GDPR event on 22nd June reg here
  • The Edtech Podcast LIVE podcast on Is Edtech a Thing? Reg here!
• Interview with:
  • Dr. Shlomy Kattan, Senior Director XPRIZE
  • Matt Keller, Prize Lead, Global Learning XPRIZE
  • Maggie Mitchell Salem, Executive Director, Qatar Foundation International
  • Mark Nagurski, Co-Founder, animation content studio, MakeMatic and
  • Tricia Edwards, Head of Education, Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center For The Study of Invention And Innovation
• We talk about:
  • What are the global educational problems of our time and how can the psychology of competition help to solve them?
  • What do inventors look like and how can we think of ourselves and our young people as inventors?
  • What’s currently wrong with educator CPD and can a new approach improve upon existing professional development and
  • What teaching resources are available to help educate on Arabic cultures, language and connectedness between young people globally.
• Message from Class Central 

References: 

Dr. Shlomy Kattan, Senior Director XPRIZE Matt Keller, Prize Lead, Global Learning XPRIZE   Dr. Shlomy Kattan- https://twitter.com/ShlomyKattan  Matt Keller- https://twitter.com/matthewkeller  Dr. Peter Diamandis- https://twitter.com/PeterDiamandis  Richard Branson- https://twitter.com/richardbranson  International Space University the diamond https://twitter.com/ISUnet   How to build a spaceship (book)- https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Make-Spaceship-Renegades-Spaceflight/dp/1594206724  The diamond age ( book)- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Diamond-Age-Neal- Stephenson/dp/0241953197 John Gartner (Common Cause) - https://twitter.com/johndgartner  Albert Memmi (The coloniser and the colonised)- https://twitter.c om/albert_memmi  Frantz Fanon- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon  Jean Paul Sarte- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre  Varkey Foundation- https://twitter.com/VarkeyFdn  Global Teacher Prize- https://twitter.com/TeacherPrize  The Yidan Prize- www.yidanprize.org  Elon Musk- https://twitter.com/elonmusk  One Lap top Per Child- http://one.laptop.org/  Nicholas Negroponte- https://twitter.com/nnegroponte  Global Learning Prize- learning.xprize.org   X Prize- https://twitter.com/xprize  Adult Literacy Prize- learning.xprize.org/ World Food Programme (WFP)Unesco- https://twitter.com/WFP  Comcast- https://twitter.com/comcast  City of Philadelphia- https://twitter.com/PhiladelphiaGov  LA unified school distri- www.lausd.net/  t SXSWedu- https://twitter.com/SXSWedu  Charles August Lindbergh- Dr. Sally Shaywitz- dyslexia- dyslexia.yale.edu/About_ShaywitzBios.html  Tech Fugees- https://twitter.com/TechFugeesBNE  Andrew Harper- https://twitter.com/And_Harper    Maggie Mitchell Salem, Executive Director, Qatar Foundation International   Qatar Foundation https://twitter.com/QF  Mags Mitchell https://twitter.com/magsmitchell  Qatar Foundation International https://twitter.com/QFIntl  Global Nomad’s Workforce https://twitter.com/global_nomads  Aspen Institute https://twitter.com/AspenInstitute  The Steven’s Initiative: https://twitter.com/stevensinit  Chicago Public Schools: https://twitter.com/ChiPubSchools   Vijay Kumar http://web.mit.edu/vkumar/www/   Mike Butcher https://twitter.com/mikebutcher  Techfugees https://twitter.com/Techfugees  Josephine Goube: https://twitter.com/josephinegoube  Natalie Scott: https://twitter.com/nataliehscott  TES: https://twitter.com/tes  Chris Emdin: https://twitter.com/chrisemdin  Let the great world spin - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-World-Spin-Colum-McCann/dp/1408801183  Genghis Khan and the making of the modern world https://www.amazon.co.uk/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World/dp/0609809644  The Arab Peoples https://www.amazon.co.uk/History-Arab-Peoples-New-Afterword-x/dp/0674058194/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1496407686&sr=1-3&keywords=The+Arab+Peoples    Mark Nagurski, Co-Founder, animation content studio, MakeMatic   Mark Nagurski- https://twitter.com/iddictive Makematic - https://twitter.com/MakeMatic  BBC Education - www.bbc.co.uk/education Teacher Development Trust- www.tdtrust.org Simon Nelson (Future Learn)- https://twitter.com/urbangenie   Future learn- https://twitter.com/FutureLearn   TedED- https://twitter.com/TED_ED     Tricia Edwards, Head of Education, Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center For The Study of Invention And Innovation   Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center https://twitter.com/SI_Invention  Tricia Edwards https://twitter.com/pdedwards  SparkLab http://invention.si.edu/about-sparklab  James Dyson: https://twitter.com/JamesDysonAward  Alexis Lewis -https://twitter.com/alexis_invent   Jack Andraka https://twitter.com/jackandraka  Victoria and Albert Museum https://twitter.com/V_and_A  Human bullet proof skin http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/18/bullet-proof-skin-spider-silk_n_930389.html  Dupont company https://twitter.com/dupont_news  Mr Whippy ice-cream - Margarat Thatcher https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/04/08/margaret-thatcher-helped-invent-ice-cream-as-we-know-it/?utm_term=.82d0a37a701c    Messages from The Edtech Podcast:

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Qatar Foundation International (QFI), LLC, is a U.S.-based member of Qatar Foundation (QF). QFI operates as both a grant-making organization, and a convener of thought leaders on issues related to global and international education, open education and education technologies as they intersect with the three core QFI programmatic areas: Arabic language and Arab culture, STE{A}M (STEM plus the Arts), and Youth Engagement.

QFI inspires meaningful connections to the Arab world by creating a global community of diverse learners and educators and connecting them through effective and collaborative learning environments —inside and outside the classroom.

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The #ISpeakArabic campaign, which launched in November 2015,  is an awareness campaign by Qatar Foundation International (QFI), a not-for-profit that works to build meaningful connections with the Arabic language and Arab world. I Speak Arabic aims to illuminate the Arabic language and Arab culture through storytelling. In addition to documentary shorts, which highlight inspiring individuals from around the world who found success from speaking Arabic as a second language, the ispeakarabic.com platform provides access to open resources, tools, and kits that expand on the teaching and learning of the Arabic language to non-native speakers.

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