#89 – Design Thinking in Ed with Sandy Speicher, Ideo Education
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Hello! and welcome everyone to this final edition of the ASU GSV Summit Series on The Edtech Podcast. My name is Sophie Bailey and this series has been dedicated to bringing together the whole spectrum of learning and talent innovation from around the world, so do let us know where you are listening in.
So, what’s happening this week?
Well, this week I’m in conversation with the wonderful Sandy Speicher, Managing Director at Ideo Education Practice. We talk about the very pressing issue of design thinking in education, something we touched upon previously in episode 80. Sandy works with organizations across the public, private, and social sectors, constantly exploring ways to design more effective and inspiring systems. She and her teams have helped to create a scalable, affordable school model in Peru, strategies to improve schools for the poor in India, digital learning platforms that meet the needs of today’s students, and a new vision for the food system in San Francisco’s schools. We also dip into the parallel universe of Mona Lisa Kitsh.
As this is the last episode in the ASU GSV Summit series, I’d like to give a big shout out to everyone at ASU GSV Summit including Deborah Quazzo, Michael Moe, and the whole rest of the team for making the series happen. A big thank you also to our wonderful and sporting guests who joined us from as far afield as China, France, the US, and Australia. If you’d like to delve into more content on the theme of design thinking, check out this week’s extras features via our weekly email, asugsvsummit.com or via @podcastedtech. You can also listen in at the end of this week’s interview to hear from Nick Robinson, Co-founder and CEO at ELTjam, on what learner experience design means to him and why ELTJAM are launching Innovate Edtech focusing on design thinking in edtech on November 11th.
So, the ASU GSV Summit Series has finished. What’s coming next?
Well, first up we’ve got three recordings from the Future of Edtech event earlier this year. These recordings have a focus on higher education innovation and feature Olivier Crouzet, Director of Pedagogy at Ecole 42, Heidi Fraser-Krauss, Director of Information Services at The University of York, and Nicole Engelbert, Director of Research & Analysis at Ovum Technology. So, keep your eyes and ears peeled for them.
In other news, I’ve been squirrelling away and working very hard on a brand new series, which launches in November! The series, produced in partnership with Pearson, is titled Future Tech for Education and explores the implications of and questions around future tech for education. I speak to a whole range of people from across industry, research, and academia about everything from AI, digital citizenship, language technology, AR/VR, gaming, assessment without tests and what really is personalised learning? Look out for our trailer on the series out soon.
So, there you have it. A big shout out to the ASU GSV Summit, Qatar Foundational International, the Michelson 20MM Foundation and Class Central for sponsoring this week’s episode. And don’t forget if you’re enjoying the series you can drop us a review on iTunes where you can also rate the show.
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What’s in this episode?
- Message from this week’s episode sponsors Qatar Foundation International , Michelson 20MM Foundation and Class Central
- Sophie Bailey introduction
- 1:1 interview with
- Sandy Speicher, Managing Director at Ideo Education Practice
- Sophie Bailey outro – hello from Nick Robinson, Co-Founder and CEO, ELTJam, plus new series announced on The Edtech Podcast
Don’t forget to also check out the reference links below, for more follow up videos, podcasts and reading on this topic!
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References:
- Nick Robinson, Co-founder and CEO at ELTjam
- Innovate Edtech takes place on the 11th November and you lucky lot get a 50% discount on registration with the code ‘EDTECH50’. You can register here: https://iedtech17.innovateevents.com/ The event is focused around learner experience design, and I’m chairing a panel with School 21, the British Dyslexia Association, Detective Dot, and The Harris Academy on exactly that.
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Thank you to this week’s sponsors:
The ASU GSV Summit annually brings together the most impactful people from diverse constituencies – entrepreneurs, business leaders, K12 and higher ed leaders, policymakers, leading tech companies, and philanthropists – to create partnerships, explore solutions, and shape the future of learning and talent innovation.
Go to: https://www.asugsvsummit.com/
Qatar Foundation International (QFI), LLC, is a U.S.-based member of Qatar Foundation (QF). QFI operates as both a grant-making organization, and a convener of thought leaders on issues related to global and international education, open education and education technologies as they intersect with the three core QFI programmatic areas: Arabic language and Arab culture, STE{A}M (STEM plus the Arts), and Youth Engagement.
Go to: http://www.qfi.org/
Founded by Dr. Gary K. Michelson, the Michelson 20MM Foundation is dedicated to supporting and investing in leading edge entrepreneurs, technologies, and initiatives that seek to transform learning and improve access to educational opportunities that lead to meaningful careers. The Michelson Runway is the world’s first social impact accelerator dedicated to supporting innovations in higher education and career training. I met the guys at the Michelson 20MM Foundation out at SXSW and they played a mean game of bowling at ASU GSV Summit. Go and check out what they do – especially if you’re involved in higher education and online learning innovation – at 20mm.org
Go to: Michelson 20MM Foundation Website ; Michelson Runway Website
A quick message from our friends at Class Central. Its been more than half a decade since free online courses from Stanford kicked off the modern-MOOC or massive online open courses movement. Since then more than 700 universities around the world have launched MOOCS, and more than 60 million people have taken at least one course. Class Central has been keeping track of the MOOC space right from the beginning. Over 10 million learners have used Class Central to find and review online courses. As the #1 search engine for online courses, Class Central provides a comprehensive listing of more than 8000 MOOCs. Class Central’s MOOC Report blog contains the most comprehensive coverage of the industry, including a recent listing of the top 50 MOOCs of all time. To find out what’s up, down, new or just slightly left field in the world of online courses, head to www.class-central.com/report/
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