Monday 21st August 2017

#80 – User-centred design: co-creating best of breed edtech with teachers for teachers

#80 – User-centred design: co-creating best of breed edtech with teachers for teachers

Hello and welcome everyone. This week we are in ‘takeover’ mode with Harness, talking about user-centred design and creating edtech with teachers for teachers. Educators! Join in the co-development process:

Sign up for a free account on Unio by visiting www.uniobyharness.com
Unio love to hear from teachers or senior leaders in education and welcome you to get in touch via email or Twitter at nihal.salah@uniobyharness.com or @uniobyharness

What’s in this episode? We look at everything from how investment and growth plans influence edtech design to the good and the bad, to how teachers share information on practical edtech, and we also hear from Harness on their own personal edtech start-up story and why they believe ‘a teacher a day keeps the EdTech in play’.

Sophie Bailey introduction
Nihal Salah, Marketing Director,Harness
Pierre-Antoine Ulmo, Investor, Harness
Mark Anderson, ICT Evangelist, Former Assistant Head, Award-winning blogger, speaker and edtech consultant
Bukky Yusuf, Secondary Science teacher, consultant and qualified coach, and a member of the teacher tech board at Harness
Diljit Hardy, Chemistry Teacher, Lutterworth College (mixed comprehensive 11+), and a member of the teacher tech board at Harness
Sophie Bailey outro – what’s on next week’s episode?

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Guest biographies:

Nihal Salah

Nihal is the Marketing Director at Harness. For the past decade, she has worked to develop growth strategies for Fortune 500 companies, start-ups, universities and multi-academy trusts in the UK and MEA. Nihal has a background in market research and marketing strategy, holds an MBA, an Advanced Certificate in Market and Social Research Practice and is currently studying for a certificate in the Design and Development of Educational Technology. Nihal has a particular interest in the future of work and the implications this will have on education and she regularly facilitates online research for the Future of Work Consortium. In her free time, Nihal enjoys extreme sports and writing poetry.

Pierre-Antoine Ullmo

Pierre-Antoine Ullmo founded P.A.U. Education in 1995 in Barcelona (Spain), based on the idea that whatever the question, Education is the answer. His company works at the European level and beyond with NGOs, public authorities and private companies to design and implement education projects based on direct participation, community building and mutual learning that empower young people to act and bring about behavioural changes and greater social cohesion.

P.A.U. Education creates new educational paradigms to respond to essential social issues in the fields of school education and innovative learning, health education and healthy living, sustainable mobility and road safety.

P.A.U. Education is a cofounder of the Open Education Challenge, the first European incubator for education startups.

Pierre-Antoine is passionate about innovation in education and advises the European Union on education issues.

Bukky Yusuf

Bukky Yusuf is a Secondary Science teacher, consultant and qualified coach. In her most recent school leadership role, she led a whole school initiative to enhance teaching & learning through the use of technology. Bukky uses her experience with professional development, technology integration and effective pedagogical strategies to help teachers adopt transformative mobile learning strategies / 1:1 classroom implementation. As part of her commitment to support digital leadership within education, Bukky uses social media to participate in a number of initiatives including #WomenEd, #BAMEed and #SLTchat. She frequently presents at educational events, including the world’s leading Ed Tech event – Bett Show, to promote projects that help educators maintain their well-being through the use of social media (e.g. #teacher5aday). Furthermore, she attends a variety of digital conferences to influence the role of technology within schools. Bukky serves as an Education Board member of Innovate My School.

Mark Anderson, ICT Evangelist

I am a former school leader with more than twenty years of experience in the classroom, leading successful faculty departments, being a local authority lead teacher for my subject and I am responsible for some of the world’s most innovative 1:1 programmes. For example, my work in 2010 – 2013 where I led on the teaching and learning and delivery on one of the world’s earliest and biggest 1:1 rollouts at Clevedon School.

My mission has always been to impact positively on the futures of children which has led to me leaving the classroom to pursue that aim on a larger scale. My ICT Evangelist blog won the Education Blog of the Year award in 2015 and I have picked up numerous other accolades over the years. Many know me from my blog and Twitter handle as @ICTEvangelist. In addition to my highly successful ‘Perfect ICT Every Lesson‘ book which has topped the Amazon education charts on numerous occasions, I have contributed to many more books, such as the recent ‘There Is Another Way: The Second Big Book of Independent Thinking‘.

I am now one of the UK’s most in-demand keynote speakers, independent strategic consultants and trainers. I am a passionate advocate for the purposeful use of technology linked to pedagogy. There are few others that have such experience of classroom practice, teaching and learning, management and technical knowledge. My experience has led to me working with schools and keynoting at conferences all over the world.

My pedigree is further reinforced by my associate status with Independent Thinking Ltd; an organisation with such high regard attached to it with some of the most talented and in-demand speakers and authors from around the world. It is a privilege to be a member of this group of forward thinking individuals in education.

With more than two decades of classroom experience, I know the power and importance of student voice in developing sound practice having co-founded the Digital Leader Network in the UK. I am also an Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Certified Innovator, Microsoft Certified Educator and expert in mobile learning and associated pedagogies.

Diljit Hardy, Chemistry Teacher, Lutterworth College (mixed comprehensive 11+)

Chemistry teacher at an 11-18 school with a passion for STEM. Ex- Head of Science with over 25 years teaching experience. My aim is to make Science interesting for all by using practical work, outside speakers and technology to improve students experience of Science in schools, making it more relevant for them.

Thank you to this week’s sponsor:

Unio is an interactive lesson delivery and assessment platform, designed with teachers to promote excellence in teaching and learning. Based around shared online screens between teachers and students, Unio makes it easy to personalise learning and assess progress at a glance.

Teachers can:

Create an interactive lesson by uploading an existing PowerPoint, Word or PDF.
Display lessons and live annotations on all student screens.
Assess understanding with self-marking quizzes.
Take control of any student’s screen to provide targeted feedback which students can access after class.

Get involved here:

Sign up for a free account on Unio by visiting www.uniobyharness.com
Unio love to hear from teachers or senior leaders in education and welcome you to get in touch via email or Twitter at nihal.salah@uniobyharness.com or @uniobyharness

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#80 – User-centred design: co-creating best of breed edtech with teachers for teachers

#80 – User-centred design: co-creating best of breed edtech with teachers for teachers

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