The Evidence Based Education Podcast

Many people who are well known for their work in education have such interesting backgrounds and stories to tell, although many of us don’t get to hear them. The aim of this new podcast series is to learn a bit more about these people, and to allow them to share their stories.

We sit down for a chat over a cup of tea, a glass of wine or a beer to find out a bit more about them – what  were they like at school? What did they do after school? How did they come to work in education?

Whatever we discuss, every podcast episode ends with the same question: If you were in charge of the education system for a day, what one policy or structural change would you make?

In this first episode, we chat with Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University. Well known for his hole in the wall experiment and winning the $1 million TED prize, Sugata talks about growing up, and his work before and after hole in the wall. We cover music, maths, mind altering chemicals and much more:

Chapter 1 – Growing up and life at school (0:00 to 21:30)

If you’d like to enquire about partaking in a future episode of Knowing Me, Knowing Ed-U, contact us at [email protected].

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We’re back again with another in our series of podcasts, delivered free to your device! This is the third in our monthly series now, and if you haven’t checked out the first two yet, please do.

This month, we have a talk by the inimitable Alex Quigley, Director of Huntington Research School in York. Alex is a well-known figure in the world of education blogging and tweeting, but in case you haven’t come across him, you can find him at The Confident Teacher, and on Twitter at @HuntingEnglish.

In this presentation, Alex Quigley talks about his practical experiences around evidence-based school improvement, covering the challenges, successes and next steps. Again, the slides are here as a PDF download for you, and please do subscribe to receive the latest episodes straight to your device. If you enjoy it, please rate and review!

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We’re back again with another in our series of podcasts, delivered free to your device! We were really pleased with the engagement and feedback from Professor Jonathan Sharples’ talk last month, so – by popular demand – here we are again!

This month, we are delighted to present Tim Oates, Group Director of Assessment Research and Development at our partner organisation, Cambridge Assessment. Tim came and spoke to our first ever cohort of Assessment Leads at their graduation event in June this year, held at Durham University’s Hild Bede College.

It was an extremely insightful and thought-provoking presentation. As ever, please do subscribe to receive the latest episodes straight to your device, and if you enjoy it, please rate and review!

If you are inspired by listening to the legend that is Tim Oates, and you would like to join the leading edge of assessment practice in schools, check out our Assessment Lead Programme. We’ve created an innovative and powerful programme so that practitioners can learn what they need to know to assess effectively and efficiently. Visit the Assessment Lead Programme page to find out more!

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Welcome to the first episode in our new (monthly) podcast series, featuring Jonathan Sharples as our first contributor. Here at EBE, we’ve been organising talks and interviews, and bridging the gaps between education policy, research and practice, for years now. Spreading the word has been the issue. We got such great feedback about our guest speakers at the Assessment Lead Programme Residential last week, that we felt it would be a shame not to get the messages across in another form, to a wider audience. So here goes…

The very first episode of The Evidence Based Education Podcast comes from the evening talk on Thursday 3rd August, delivered by the Education Endowment Foundation’s Senior Researcher, Professor Jonathan Sharples. Jonathan and The EEF are both on Twitter – well worth following for up-to-date research and evidence.

He gave an engaging and open insight into the work of the EEF, and also a more holistic window into his vision for a functioning and effective evidence-based school system in the UK.

His slides are downloadable here, for your reference as you listen, and click here to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes (Android and other links below) – if you enjoy it, please rate and review!

All of our podcasts are available to download from our Podcast Archive.

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