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We are joined by Conrad Taylor & Adam Dwight. Conrad is the Business Learning & Technologies Manager at City of Wolverhampton College, where he ensures the college is using the latest technology and the digital up-skilling of all staff and students. He has over 20 years’ experience in further education and his passion lies in fostering collaborative practice, personal development and creative thinking.  

Adam has been a lecturer in FE for the last 25 years. In more recent years, he has become a lecturer in Teacher Education and a Learning Innovator supporting staff in the use of technology and embedding 21st century learning skills. Next month he will have his Viva for his PhD in Sports Equality.

This roundtable was part of the Edufuturists Awards 2021 online event.   

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Host: Patrick McGrath  

Guests: Bukky Yusuf, Al Kingsley, Lawrence Tijjani, Jamie Smith & Jo Saxon-Fletcher  

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Amanda is Head of Apprenticeships for Google. She leads a team that builds apprenticeships at Google, sharing good practice for maximum impact and providing fantastic opportunities for apprentices to learn on the job. 

This is a keynote talk that was delivered at the Moving Forward Together in FE event on 23rd June 2021.

You can watch the video of this talk at https://youtu.be/Rej-idu4LEk

This keynote by David Jones OBE was recorded at our Moving Forward Together in FE event on 23rd June 2021. In this talk David reflects on the changing face of education in light of the innovation of the past couple of years. 

Watch the video of this keynote here: https://youtu.be/g_Ny0BaZ1wY

David Jones has over 30 years experience in FE/HE, most recently 16 outstanding years as CEO at Coleg Cambria. He stepped down in January to pursue a range of consultancy and non-exec roles. David was a key presenter at our New, Next or Never Normal roundtable in June to launch a report he compiled of the same name, which we will discuss today. We asked about how to figure out the changing world of further and higher education. David was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Clwyd in March 2010 and was awarded an OBE in the 2015 New Year’s Honours List in recognition of his services to education. David also won the TES UK FE Leader of the Year Award in 2017.

This is the keynote talk "Make it Great" by Joshua Dahn at the Edufuturists Awards 2021. 

Watch the video of this keynote at https://youtu.be/-s5BBiLCNK4

A full length indepth interview is available with Josh on episode #142 

Joshua Dahn is the Executive Director and founder of Astra Nova School in Los Angeles, California. He is a co-founder of Synthesis, a company that brings students together from around the world to learn through complex games.   

“Six years ago, Elon Musk asked me to start an experimental school with him at SpaceX. The goal was to develop students who are enthralled by complexity and solving for the unknown.”  

Joshua co-founded Ad Astra School, the predecessor to Astra Nova, with Elon Musk in 2014. Joshua met Elon while teaching his children at Mirman School for highly gifted children in Los Angeles. Ad Astra School was located on the campus of SpaceX for Elon’s children and some Space X employee’s children.   

The curriculum at Ad Astra was not that of a typical school. Students learned about artificial intelligence and how to deliver "essentially a TED talk".  To encourage entrepreneurship Ad Astra also had its own unit of currency called the "Astra," which the children were able to trade with each other. Joshua explains that "One of the things they do is three times a year there’s a marketplace called the Bazaar and at the Bazaar the kids have their own companies essentially."   

Joshua will be delivering the keynote talk at the Edufuturists Awards 2021 on 2nd July. At the online event, where educators from around the UK are celebrated for their innovative approach to education, Joshua will explain the vision behind Astra Nova and how the future of education must adapt to meet the needs of our changing world.   

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We are joined by Sebastian the CEO of Enter. 

Enter is a decentralised NFT marketplace connecting content creators, musicians, artists and investors. The Enter platform is powered by the deflationary cryptocurrency token NFTART.  

Website: enter.art 

Sebastian on twitter: @SebastianLykke3  

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Joshua Dahn is the Executive Director and founder of Astra Nova School in Los Angeles, California. He is a co-founder of Synthesis, a company that brings students together from around the world to learn through complex games.

“Six years ago, Elon Musk asked me to start an experimental school with him at SpaceX. The goal was to develop students who are enthralled by complexity and solving for the unknown.”

Joshua co-founded Ad Astra School, the predecessor to Astra Nova, with Elon Musk in 2014. Joshua met Elon while teaching his children at Mirman School for highly gifted children in Los Angeles. Ad Astra School was located on the campus of SpaceX for Elon’s children and some Space X employee’s children. 

The curriculum at Ad Astra was not that of a typical school. Students learned about artificial intelligence and how to deliver "essentially a TED talk".  To encourage entrepreneurship Ad Astra also had its own unit of currency called the "Astra," which the children were able to trade with each other. Joshua explains that "One of the things they do is three times a year there’s a marketplace called the Bazaar and at the Bazaar the kids have their own companies essentially." 

Joshua will be delivering the keynote talk at the Edufuturists Awards 2021 on 2nd July. At the online event, where educators from around the UK are celebrated for their innovative approach to education, Joshua will explain the vision behind Astra Nova and how the future of education must adapt to meet the needs of our changing world. 

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Lawrence Tijjani is a Google Certified Trainer, Educator and Innovator globally. He is an expert practitioner in FE IT Strategy and leading Educator for mentoring programmes across under-represented groups for Google Workspace for Education UK. Lawrence also runs Just a Guy foundation which focuses on empowering young people to reach their full potential.   

Lawrence's FREE Online Careers Fair is running 5-7th July 2021. Sign up for more information at: justaguy.co.uk/careersfair  

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This special episode is roundtable 2 from the Moving Forward Together event on 10th June 2021. In this fantastic discussion Edufuturists, Lawrence Tijjani, Kelly Mildenhall, Jonny Regan, Jess Marsh and Kate Cheal discussed digital skills, creativity in curriculum design, engagement and delivery in a post-COVID world.

You can watch the video of this roundtable and the rest of the event at eventindependent.edufuturists.com

In this special episode we are sharing the keynote talk from the Moving Forward Together event on 10th June 2021. This talk given by Georgina Dean covers creativity, innovation, and inquiry based critical thinking, through digitally integrated experiential learning.

Georgina is an ISTE Certified Educator, a Google for Education Certified Trainer & Innovator (#VIA20), an Adobe Education Leader & Creativity Crew Founding Member.

You can watch the video of this talk and all the event roundtables at eventindependent.edufuturists.com