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Assistive technology that can help everyone, from Caption.Ed 

Captions are vital to ensure inclusion and Caption.Ed is making all sorts of sectors more accessible with its live captioning technology. Richard Purcell, CEO of the company, explains to Russell Prue the work that has gone into refining the solution to recognise accents and specialist terms, as well as the various sectors that are using it. 

https://caption-ed.com/ 

@get_captioned 

James Garnett, EdTech Demonstrator Programme Lead, talks about its value for schools 

Nobody quite knew what to do when the pandemic lockdowns hit, but the EdTech Demonstrator Programme was on hand to support schools, helping them to make the best use of their technology as education switched to remote provision.  

James Garnett, the Programme Lead of the EdTech Demonstrator Programme, explains that even now, as we transition from pandemic mode towards something like normality, it is still providing a valuable advisory service right across the school sector.  

https://edtechdemo.ucst.uk/ 

@jamesmgarnett  

@EdTechDemo 

Cypher Learning’s learning platform has AI infused throughout! 

Alina from Cypher Learning talks to Russell Prue about how its learning platform supports teachers by recognising students’ skills and providing recommendations of content to help them progress. It also assists teachers with lesson design and course planning – it really is a smart learning assistant! 

https://www.cypherlearning.com/ 

@CypherLearning  

Bringing education to life(size) with TeachRex 

TeachRex is all about bringing context to education for primary school pupils with life-size dinosaur, dragon and gorilla costumes! Joe Parsonage, co-founder of the company, explains how the costumes help to fire up pupils’ creativity, promote good SPAG and lead them into thematic writing (in association with Pobble). 

https://teachrex.co.uk/ 

@teach_rex 

As Bett 2022 opens, Al Kingsley chats to Russell Prue! 

Everyone is excited to be back at Bett in person for the first time in two years and NetSupport’s CEO, Al Kingsley, is no exception. Al talks to Russell about the question that’s on everyone’s lips this year, which is, “What’s next for edtech?”. He also explains the importance of looking after student and staff wellbeing in the Trust he chairs, and chats about his plans for the event. 

www.netsupportsoftware.com  

@AlKingsley_Edu  

Here’s your chance to listen back to the live NetSupport Radio broadcast from the first day of Bett 2022!

Host Russell Prue had some inspiring chats with a range of tech and non-tech education solutions providers, including those from TeachRex, Cypher Learning, Caption.ED, Commonsense Education, Time Capsule Education, Arco Iris Learning and i3-Technologies.

In addition, there’s an informative interview with James Garnett, the Programme Lead for the EdTech Demonstrator Programme – and then four Year 6 students from Primrose Hill School in Salford and their teacher, Mr Samuels, who talk about their school radio station.

In this episode, we are joined by Mark Anderson. Mark is a global speaker, education technology expert, consultant, trainer and award-winning blogger and author, known as the ICT Evangelist. He is also Head of Education at NetSupport Group  and he is an Independent Thinking Associate. In 2015, Mark moved on from his 20+ years in the classroom and various leadership roles to work with schools and teachers the world over.

In this episode we discussed ‘What does effective teaching and learning with technology look like in primary schools?’

Here are some of the questions I asked:

• What makes a good curriculum for teaching and learning with technology? What assistive learning and accessibility tools do you recommend for supporting primary pupils?
• How can schools improve teaching confidence in using tech for teaching and learning?
• Are there any particular training courses, books, resources etc. you recommend for teacher CPD?
• Teachers have a lot of accountability and time pressures impacting on teaching and learning, what teach can be used to help lessen the burden?
• What are some of the common misconceptions about using tech for teaching and learning?
• You are a huge believer in purposeful tech- how can schools ensure the edtech they are using is right for them?

You can follow Mark on Twitter at @ICTEvangelist
You can also check out his website and YouTube channel.

In this podcast series we are exploring all things EYFS and primary with different topics and special guests each fortnight. 

In this episode, we are joined by Andrew Cowley. Andrew is a former Primary School DHT who has a commitment to and a passion for wellbeing for children and for school staff. Believing wellbeing to be a strategic consideration as well as a life skill, Andrew co-founded @HealthyToolkit and wrote the accompanying blog, has blogged for Education Support Partnership and BBC Teach. More recently Andrew has been published by Bloomsbury Education: The Wellbeing Toolkit (2019) supports wellbeing for staff and The Wellbeing Curriculum (2021) proposes a broadly defined approach to wellbeing and character development in the primary school.

In this episode we discussed creating a Wellbeing Culture in schools. 

Here are some of the questions I asked Andrew:

• Could you tell us about your wellbeing books?
• Could you tell us a bit about the Healthy Toolkit- what it is and how it all started?
• How would you define wellbeing?
• You mentioned before that wellbeing can be seen as an 'add on' can you explain what you meant by this?
• How can schools create a culture of wellbeing for all staff?
• How can school staff support pupils with their wellbeing and what do you think they should be teaching pupils about wellbeing?
• What are the issues that most negatively impact on staff wellbeing?
• What has been the impact of COVID on wellbeing? Do you feel this has increased awareness of the importance of supporting wellbeing?
•  Where can people find more information and support?

 You can follow Andrew on Twitter at @andrew_cowley23 

Welcome to another great conversation with Andy Earp, our Technical Support Manager at NetSupport.

In this episode of NetSupport Radio, we explore our fantastic product, NetSupport Manager and explore how it can help corporate clients with supporting the remote management of devices within your IT estate. In this episode we explore how NetSupport Manager can; 

• helping you to save time. 
• help you support your colleagues with any issues they are facing using their devices. 
• help you to efficiently update and manage devices across your IT estate, from colleague workstations to POS devices to robots on your production line…  

…and so much more! 

We cover the following questions in the session:

• Things that companies have shared are their favourite features of NetSupport Manager 
• Top tips for helping companies save time with NetSupport Manager
• What issues bring customers to us needing NetSupport Manager and what issues do NetSupport Manager help to solve? 
• Real life hints and tips.

As you might expect, the responses to each of the questions are many, given the broad and varied ways the award-winning NetSupport Manager can help organisations such as yours. 

To learn more about NetSupport Manager and to start using it to help your business, there are several avenues you can take. 

You can:

• Get in touch via the live chat feature on the NetSupport Manager website  
• Chat directly with our team via www.netsupportsoftware.com/chat,
• …or why not reach out to us on Twitter @NetSupportGroup or @NetSupportNSM 

Welcome back to Of Primary Importance!

In this episode, we are joined by Caroline Allams, Natterhub’s Co-founder and Chief Product Officer. Caroline is an educator with over 12 years’ experience in the UK, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Hong Kong.  Natterhub is a gated immersive online safety and digital citizenship learning platform, providing primary schools with a tool to develop crucial digital soft skills and that teaches young children to understand more about their digital landscape.   

In this episode we discussed keeping primary pupils safe online.

Here are some of the questions I asked:

• What made you interested in co-founding a company for pupil online safety?
• What do you think is working really well in schools currently?
• What kind of support/resources etc. do you think are needed to improve the teaching of online safety in schools?
• Since 2020, we all know pupils have been online a lot more, how has this impacted on their safety and how can risks be mitigated?
• What are your 5 top tips for teaching online safety?
• What do you think are some common misconceptions about the online world and how can these be addressed?
• Part of Natterhub is providing a safe social media like space for primary pupils- some may be surprised by this as social media isn't 'supposed' to be used under a certain age, but I know from teaching primary it is. Can you talk about this a bit more please.
• Do you think there are any specific aspects of online safety that should be taught in primary but aren't or are not given enough precedence?
• Unfortunately, we know that children online can be at risk of abuse, what are some signs that parents/teachers may spot that indicate this could be happening?
• What are your tips for parents in supporting their child to be safe online and how can their child's school support with this?
• Your platform supports both digital literacy and digital empathy can you please talk about why these are important skills for pupils to develop.
• How can listeners get in touch with you and are there any other resources/support that you recommend?

You can follow Caroline on Twitter at @carolineallams 

You can also check out Natterhub’s YouTube and website.  

You can follow me (Kat Cauchi) on Twitter at @ReallyschoolK

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