#131 – Raising the Student Voice
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This episode was recorded at The Edtech Podcast Festival 2018. You can register your interest for the next festival here. Thank you to the Ufi Charitable Trust for sponsoring this week’s episode and supporting our mission to improve the dialogue between ed and tech for better innovation and impact. 🙌
What’s in this episode?
This week I’m delighted to bring the second episode of the Ufi upskilling mini-series on The Edtech Podcast. This series will take a bite-size look at technologies in work-place training which are changing the ways we learn and thrive. This week, we look at “tipping qualification and assessments on their head”.
What else? This week’s episode main feature is a LIVE podcast discussion on raising the student voice, including what we can do to bring student’s into decision making whilst improving their communication skills.
People
- Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
- Ufi upskilling mini-series on The Edtech Podcast:
- Liz Dobree, Chief Impact Officer, at the ufi Charitable Trust | Twitter: @UfiTrust
- Kevin Jones, Head of Projects, Digital Guild at East Sussex College Group | Twitter: @DigitalGuildUK
- LIVE podcast discussion from our podcast festival:
- Julian Hall, Founder, Ultra Education | Twitter: @theultrapreneur
- Debbie Penglis, Director of Partnerships, School21| Twitter: @DebPenglis
- Adebayo Odusola, Programme Director, Debate Mate Podcast| Twitter: @AdebayoOdusola
- Haider Nazerali, Student, Debate Mate | Twitter: @haldululu
- Kamare Hall, Student
About the Ufi Charitable Trust
Our aim is to help improve vocational skills in the UK’s workforce by funding digital solutions for vocational learning. We only fund activity that is ‘scalable’ through technology, ie projects that use digital methods to widen access to vocational learning. While digital learning solutions are potentially open to all, we are especially keen to assist digital projects which involve post school age vocational learners that have failed to be engaged by the education system.
News, events and funding: https://www.ufi.co.uk/
Quotes from this episode
- Liz Dobree, Chief Impact Officer, at the ufi Charitable Trust | Twitter: @UfiTrust
“Things are changing so much from the days of having a written exam paper at the end of a very long period of study”
- Kevin Jones, Head of Projects, Digital Guild at East Sussex College Group | Twitter: @DigitalGuildUK
“We know employers like the flexibility of being able to specify exactly what they are looking for, in terms of recruiting new talent”
- Debbie Penglis, Director of Partnerships, School21 | Twitter: @DebPenglis
“The way to create really great talk for students to believe they should be able to speak is to create authentic situations where their voice makes a difference”
References
Scottish Qualifications Association
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Kamare’s Vegan Chocoria spread
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