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What's in this episode?

• Intro: trends from London Edtech Week
• LIVE podcast:

  This week’s recording is our LIVE podcast on Is Edtech a Thing? exploring the value of edtech from a financial, educational and opportunity cost point of view. Thrashing out the various nuances in the debate, you’ll hear from

  Lucy Heady - Impact Director, Investments Team - Nesta
  Matt Johnson - Senior Associate - Cooley LLP
  Richard Taylor - Angel Edtech Investor
  Bukky Yusuf - Secondary Science Teacher, Consultant and Qualified Coach

  A big shout out to all the people who came along in the UK heatwave, to Nesta for hosting and to Cooley LLP for covering the drinks until booting out time.

• We're on holibobs in July, watching the TDF and then getting our 2017 2H sponsorship in place. Contact us if you're interested! [email protected] 

Sample quotes: 

'One thing we know from research is that it’s really really hard to improve learning for children. Affect sizes are tiny across the board.’ - Lucy Heady 

'There’s a lot of interest and concern if a company is free. How are they making money?'  - Matt Johnson 

'The reality is something comes in, something has to go out.’ - Richard Taylor

'Something which could cut the marking back’ - Bukky Yusuf on what she’d like to see from edtech

References: 

• London Edtech Week: https://twitter.com/edtechweekldn 
• Lucy Heady, Impact Director, Investments Team - Nesta - https://twitter.com/lucyheady  
• Matthew Johnson, Senior Associate - Cooley LLP-https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-johnson-0b607672 https://twitter.com/cooleyllp 
• Richard Taylor, Angel Edtech Investor- https://twitter.com/dick_taylor 
• Bukky Yusuf, Secondary Science Teacher, Consultant and Qualified- https://twitter.com/rondelle10_b  
• Education City-https://twitter.com/EducationCity  
• Merlin John- Agent4change https://twitter.com/merlinjohn 
• Centre of Procurement Performance - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/centre-of-procurement-performance  
• Rocket Fund- https://twitter.com/RocketFundUK  
• ResearchED- https://twitter.com/researched1  
• Roland G. Fryer-https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/home
• Horizon 2020-https://twitter.com/EU_H2020  
• 2010 Harvard Business Review - https://hbr.org/archive-toc/BR1001  
• G Suite- https://twitter.com/gsuite 
• Class Dojo-https://twitter.com/ClassDojo  
• Clevrbv- https://twitter.com/clevrbv  
• Study Ladder- https://twitter.com/studyladder_t  
• EdSurge- https://twitter.com/EdSurge  
• Edublogs- https://twitter.com/edublogs  
• Teachers pay Teachers- https://twitter.com/tptdotcom  
• Tes Resources- https://twitter.com/TesResources  
• Share My Lesson- https://twitter.com/sharemylesson 
• PowerSchool- https://twitter.com/MyPowerSchool  
• Moshi Monsters- https://twitter.com/moshimonsters  
• OZ- https://twitter.com/ozmusicproducer  
• Night ZooKeeper- https://twitter.com/nightzookeeper  
• Leg up!- https://twitter.com/legup  
• Learning Without Frontiers- https://www.linkedin.com/company/learning-without-frontiers
• Becta-www.becta.org.uk/  
• Kahoot- https://twitter.com/GetKahoot  
• Renaissance Learning -https://twitter.com/renlearn_uk
• Mike Tracano’s blog - http://blogs.worldbank.org/team/michael-trucano  
• UKEdChat- https://twitter.com/ukedchat  
• Innovate My School-https://twitter.com/InnovateMySchl
• Jay Ashcroft- https://twitter.com/iamjayashcroft  
• Navitas Ventures- https://twitter.com/navitasventures

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