#58 – Edtech Trends at Bett 2017 (2/3)

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• ICT Connect 21 and The Japanese association for the promotion of education technology on why Britain is helping with the renewal of their curriculum after ten years, coding and cramming schools. 

• The Bloodhound Project on inspiring the next generation of engineers, thrust, and Tainted Love.

• Digital leader students from Islington schools on what they want from education technology

• Mobile Gaming start up Wibbu on why gaming is the key to longer engagement for language learners

• The Bafta Young Game Designers and a new Nintendo employee on how teachers can help young people get into the creative and high-revenue gaming industry

• Bett Award winners Digiexam on drawing the university examination process away from paper

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Sample quotations: 

Yoshimi Ishizaka, ICT Connect 21

• The Japanese education system is relatively centralised 
• The after school education is so active; not only the physical classroom, but online
• The National Standard curriculum is raised every 10 years; 2020 – the concept of the revision is active learning 
• Starting a programming class will be so tough. We came to england to learn your experiences
• Many edtech venture companies have recently started in Japan. The after school market is so big. The b2c market rather than b2school.
• Another problem is the Japanese teachers are so busy. Too busy!
• If some technology can reduce their burden…that’s very great.

Rob Bennett, Bloodhound 

• What are we watching? We are watching kids get inspired and engaged about rocket cars!
• Engineers: people who use technology to solve problems as, of course, we all do on planet earth from the day we are born
• How am I, the most complicated computer in the world going to solve problems? I need equations.
• I am from the land of the free and brave: Cornwall.
• We are like the starship enterprise, going boldly where no man has ever done. We will prove the science and we will do it safely.
• Produce 9 tonnes of thrust, just pop it down the run way.
• We are communicating the language of maths which are universal

Children from Islington Schools 

• Franklin, 11 years old, Newington Green Primary School
• ‘I’ve seen VR headsets, different robots.’ 

• Matthew, Newington Green Primary School
• ‘I enjoyed the robot one.’ 
• What gets you engaged? ‘ICT’ 

• Nor, 
• A digital leader is responsible for technology and ICT. They are one of the good people.’ 

• Jackson, Alexandra Palance Secondry School 
• ‘I like the robotics.’ 

 Dean Jacobs, Wibbu 

• We’re a group of game developers and linguists and language teachers who have come together to modernise the way people learns languages.
• I’ve always been in love with languages.
• Our philosophy is about long term engagement with language learning 
• We had a concept game out last year. We had a quarter of a million downloads and went to the number one in the apps store education category in 20 countries. 
• I think it’s really exciting for publishers. I don’t think they’ve seen something which is so gamified. 

Melissa Philipps, BAFTA Young Games Designer of the Year 

• There are brand new games design courses opening up all over the country 
• I’m a big believer in the see it be it 

Kai Mulligan Oliver, Nintendo

• I think its so much easier to be creative now. Being creative digitally is so much in the minds of young people these days
• The tools are now democratised. you don’t need to code. 
• In the indie scene i know lots of people haven’t done degrees

Gustaf Nordback, DigiExam

On the educator side we solve the problem of marking 

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References: 

• Bett Show: https://twitter.com/Bett_show
• Micro:bit: https://twitter.com/microbit_edu
• Crowlands Primary School: https://twitter.com/CrowlandsPS
• Panasonic: https://twitter.com/panasonic
• NEC: https://twitter.com/NEC ]
• Fujitsu: https://twitter.com/Fujitsu_Global
• Hitachi: https://twitter.com/HitachiGlobal
• Dave Smith: https://twitter.com/
• UK Digital Strategy:https://t.co/wb66BQdEIf
• RocketFund: https://twitter.com/RocketFundUK
  Edspace: https://twitter.com/EdspaceHoxton
  ICT connect: https://ictconnect21.jp/
  Info@ictconnect21.jp
  JPET: https://www.jset.gr.jp/english/president/
  Khan Academy: https://twitter.com/khanacademy
  Blood Hound Edu: https://twitter.com/bloodhound_Edu
  Bloodhound_SSC https://twitter.com/bloodhound_SSC
  Katy Potts: https://twitter.com/katypotts
  Cornwall council: https://twitter.com/CornwallCouncil
  racefortheline.com 
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Trevithick
  http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/project/team/andy-green
  http://newingtongreen.co.uk/
  http://www.alexandrapark.school/
• Bafta YGD: https://twitter.com/BAFTAGames
  Wibbu: https://twitter.com/wibbu_studios
  Lightneer: https://twitter.com/LightneerInc
  Duolingo: https://twitter.com/duolingo
  Busuu: https://twitter.com/busuu
  Abertay university: https://twitter.com/AbertayUni
  Falmouth university: https://twitter.com/FalmouthUni
  The Chinese room: https://twitter.com/ChineseRoom
  Gina Jackson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gina-jackson-7b74392/
  Jessica Curry: https://twitter.com/jessicacurry2
  Rhinana Pratchett: https://twitter.com/rhipratchett
  Ray Chambers: https://twitter.com/Lanky_Boi_Ray
  Minecraft: https://twitter.com/Minecraft
  Deck bound: https://twitter.com/deckbound
  Maker space south London: https://twitter.com/LDN_Makerspace
  Sonic: https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog
  Finnal fantasy seven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII
  Media molecule: https://twitter.com/mediamolecule
  Dan Pearce: https://twitter.com/GameDesignDan
  Bett awards: https://twitter.com/BettAwards
• Digiexam: https://twitter.com/DigiExam

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