#243 – School Digital Strategies

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What’s in this episode?

Thanks to Learnosity and WorkTripp for sponsoring this episode. 

In this episode, I’m in conversation with the amazing Madeleine Wolf, Founder and CEO, VisionYOU, Germany and Kadri Tuisk, Founder and CEO Clanbeat, Estonia. 

We talk about: 

• What insights you uncover speaking to 300 headteachers in Germany
• How to think about the “wicked (complex) problem” of student wellbeing  
• Plus, listener discounts for upcoming events, accerator deadlines and more… 

This is episode three from our new series with the Female Edtech Fellowship, a collaboration between the European Edtech Alliance and Supercharger Ventures to support the growth of the most promising female founders in Europe.

EdtechX is fast approaching on the 23 June, LOndon. I’ll be there hosting a fireside chat with the CEO of Coursera and the GREAT news for listeners is I have a discount code for anyone who wants to attend. So, if you want to make the most of that code, it is ETX22PODCAST40 once again ETX22PODCAST40 and the discount is decent at 40% off.  Link to register with the code here. 

Follow along @EuropeanEdtech #femaleedtechfellowship

People

Madeleine Wolf, Founder and CEO, VisionYOU, Germany

I did my Master’s degree in Sustainable Business Management at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde. From 2008-2017 I worked for Deutsche Bahn AG, including in the area of technical innovation projects in the environmental sector. In 2017, I founded visionYOU – a creative agency for digital education – together with Teresa Kreis and Paul Wolf. Since 2019, I have been a board member in Bitkom’s working group Educational Policy (Germany’s digital association), since 2022 by the Lord Mayor appointed member of the Digitisation Council of the state capital Potsdam, was appointed member of the Digital Summit Platform “Digital Future: Learning. Research. Knowledge” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, am involved in various juries, including Smartschool Competition and Innovative Business Models (a programme of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology). I recently became a Female EdTech Fellow Europe. Above all, I am a passionate team player, love to initiate new ideas and enter unknown territory with my team and partners.

Kadri Tuisk, Founder and CEO Clanbeat, Estonia

Kadri Tuisk is the founder and CEO of Clanbeat – students’ wellbeing platform with social learner communities. Helping people to discover their true passions, achieve their goals and shape their own future. Her mission with Clanbeat is to help students to be self-aware individuals with strong self-management skills so that they can reach their true potential. She is design thinking practicioner and is driven by purpossefully implementing it to support people designing their life. She is a mother and likes outdoor sports. And pandas.

Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech

Sophie is the founder of the iTunes new and noteworthy, The Edtech Podcast. The mission of The Edtech Podcast is to improve the dialogue between ‘ed’ and ‘tech’ for better innovation, through storytelling. The podcast is downloaded from over 145 countries with the UK, US & Aus in the top 3. Sophie has spoken and moderated at a variety of events including SXSW EDU, Yidan Education Prize, ASU GSV Summit, and the Next Billion Edtech Summit. She is an industry mentor and advisor, a Reimagine Education, GESA Awards, Bett Awards and XPrize Adult Literacy judge, and previous Edtech50 and Edtech Digest winner.

Sophie is passionate about lifelong and everyday learning. If she’s not interviewing a University Vice-Chancellor, Edtech Investor, School Leader, or StartUp about education innovation, she’s engrossed in Teach Your Monster to Read or wrestling her lockdown baby. A keen cyclist, she has recently relocated to West Devon which she considers the English version of the Pyrenees. She is very lucky to work with a distributed team on The Edtech Podcast.

Her new venture is WorkTripp: a marketplace for high-growth companies to book team offsites. 

Thank you to this week’s sponsors

Learnosity is the global leader in assessment solutions. Serving over 700 customers and more than 40 million learners, its mission is to advance education and learning worldwide with best-in-class technology. Learnosity’s specialized expertise and pre-built assessment APIs make it easy for modern learning platforms to quickly launch fully featured products, scale on demand, and always meet fast-evolving market needs. Visit learnosity.com today to discover how.

WorkTripp is a marketplace for high-growth companies to book team offsites, to improve talent retention, cross-team innovation and employee experience. We come at team offsites from an events and learning and development perspective, not just a transactional booking process. This helps teams to get the most out of their time and investment on bringing everyone together. To book a WorkTripp or add your listing go to www.worktripp.com  

Discount code for listeners attending EdtechX

EdtechX is fast approaching on the 23 June, LOndon. I’ll be there hosting a fireside chat with the CEO of Coursera and the GREAT news for listeners is I have a discount code for anyone who wants to attend. So, if you want to make the most of that code, it is ETX22PODCAST40 once again ETX22PODCAST40 and the discount is decent at 40% off.  Link to register with the code here. 

References from this week’s episode

• Some links on how to try and support Ukraine here and here. 
• WorkTripp – need to book a team offsite? Join our marketplace
• Transcend Network closes soon. Apply here. 
• Check out GoldStar Education and take part in an impact diagnostics for your edtech initiative 
• Digital Pact Germany  – With hopes of making a ‘big leap’ in digital learning, German Education Minister Johanna Wanka plans to invest 5 billion euros in 40,000 schools
• Graydin  – coaching culture for schools 
• Acclerate Estonia – a testbed for solving wicked problems
• Book recommendations: Two books: “Designing your life” by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans and “the Almanack of Naval Ravikant” by Eric Jorgenson
• Book recommendations: “Die Kunst des klaren Denkens” (The art of clear thinking) by Rolf Dobelli and “Führen. Leisten. Leben.” (Lead. Perform. Live.) by Fredmund Malik

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