Another really informative episode on EdTech Shared. In this episode Richard Purcell  talks about his experience of dyslexia in school and university and how it impacted his learning. He speaks first hand about the power of assistive technology in education and how it can support students. Rich explains how CareScribe and its two software products were born, going over the use cases for university clients. He discusses the impact of the pandemic and the benefits of the hybrid learning model. Richard Purcell is the co-founder and director of Bristol-based assistive technology company, CareScribe. Richard is an NHS doctor and entrepreneur, working to develop innovative assistive technologies designed to promote and enable accessibility and inclusion in education and the workplace. CareScribe is an assistive technology company based in Bristol, UK , Caption.Ed and TalkType, are used by thousands of people worldwide daily in education and the workplace.

In this episode, Neil Emery talks about how to use digital signage in schools to help share success, ethos and having impact. Where to locate them, who your audience is and how to select content to maximise that impact.  Neil Emery has been working in education for over 15 years supporting well over a 1500 schools. As an Apple Education Trainer his work took him all over the world including The Baltics, Middle East and Europe. He has even run a number of education technology projects in the Amazon RainForest. Now director and founder of TrilbyTV the ‘#1 Digital Signage Platform made for Education’ his passion is making sure schools and colleges gain the most from their technology purchases.

In this episode of EdTech Shared, Patrick McGrath, Head of Education Strategy at TextHelp talks about Universal Design for Learning and unpicks the what, why and how we learn and how this can be made inclusive and equitable through use of technology.  Educator, international speaker, blogger, podcaster, Honorary Fellow at UU and Head of Education Strategy at the Texthelp Group, Patrick is passionate about ensuring that technology has a positive, meaningful and sustainable impact on teaching & learning through a focus on inclusion, accessibility and universal design. Find Patrick online @TH_Patrickm or www.pmcgrath.me

In this episode, Gemma Kenny talks about how we tackle what is in the news with children, depending on their age and development stage. Gemma shares content and advice for teachers to help them start these often difficult conversations. Gemma is a Primary School and Special Education Needs Teacher from Sydney, Australia.  After teaching in Australia, Sweden and United Kingdom she saw varying approaches to technology use in the classroom. Gemma saw the power technology had to enhance learning opportunities for all students and began applying it in many areas of her own teaching. Gemma is now a Producer and Curriculum Specialist at Discovery Education and is using her background of teaching to support her fellow teachers embark on their own digital teaching journeys.  She has experienced first-hand the challenges of discussing distressing global news with children and understands the difficulty in these conversations.  You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

Ryan Evans catches up with EdTech Shared at BETT to give us his backstory on what inspired him to digitally transform a special needs school. This encompassed helping teachers shift their pedagogical and technological practices to help students access well known digital tools to support future forward learning for all students. The story of the development of IncludEdu is lovely because it ties in with Ryan’s own personal development as a Google Innovative Educator and the idea of creating teacher platforms that global communities can use to support the needs of all learners accessing their own schools curriculum. Ryan is a former Head of Faculty and ICT teacher from Carmarthen in West Wales. A Partner Technologist for Google at Aspire 2Be, a Welsh based Learning Technology Company that are the only Apple, Google and Microsoft PD Partner in Europe. Ryan is a Google Certified Innovator and Trainer, Apple Professional Learning Specialist and Microsoft Certified Educator and his #VIA20 project reflects his passion for inclusivity in learning. You can follow Ryan on twitter here or find out more about the "free" framework Include.edu here https://includedu.online/ You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

Linda catches up with Tim Clarke on the expansion of Cornerstone primary school in the UK. The digital development of his school is one of the examples of how his staff have pulled together as a team to drive the development of a learning community, focused around their core values. Tim  is Headteacher of Cornerstone CE Primary in Hampshire (UK) and has been teaching and learning for over 25 years. Cornerstone is a Microsoft Showcase School: and focuses on 'learning always and all ways'. Tim is an MIE Expert, an MIE Master Trainer, and a Microsoft Certified Educator. He blogs about educational leadership and learning at timjumpclarke.wordpress.com Cornerstone is focused on 'Growing an Inspirational Learning Community.' They define this as: Together, inspiring a love of learning;Encouraging and empowering partnerships;Nurturing a Growth Mindset.   You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

James Fraser-Murison catches up with EdTech Shared at BETT to give us a 10min taster on the incredible growth of the Esports in education community and how he has developed a successful Pearson BTEC curriculum to teach students the skills needed to access this fast growing global vocation.  James is a national award winner of Innovation, Esports Director at Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke & National Trainer for Pearson for the esports BTEC. James has presented as a speaker at the Festival of Education, BETT, EGX and NASEF mentor. He's the manager of the esports team, the QMSamuari and current NASEF mentor. James's other role is the business development manager and esports educational consultant for Yoyotech who build esports gaming arenas around the UK.  May 2021 saw the UK’s first-ever sixth form esports floor open based on grants and funding of 300K which James helped raise and personally oversee the build of. James is an avid computer gamer, especially with his son Noah. Loves Thai food and Netflix (in that order) and passed his cycling proficiency test on the first go 😉. He’s been in education for 17 years, mostly at management level and is luckily enough to be asked to speak about all things esports and education across the globe. Connect with James on Twitter here - https://twitter.com/FraserEsports You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

A fab episode where Philip Birchinall talks all things immersive education.   Phil has been an educator and award winning EdTech innovation leader for almost 30 years, developing and bringing high impact content into the classroom, most recently at the forefront of immersive technologies such as augmented and virtual reality. He is senior Director of immersive content at Discovery Education.  You can connect on Twitter with Phil at https://twitter.com/philbirchinall You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

In this special episode of "EdTech Shared" you might notice that Linda is rather excited about the upcoming BETT conference, she shares why, the opportunities to learn, build her #PLN, check out innovative solutions and mentions quite a few she is looking to develop within her schools. Well worth adding to your pre-BETT checklist.  She'd love to meet up with you at the show, so do reach out.  You'll find Linda on Twitter at @DigiLin_ and on her website  www.DigiLinLearning.com

In this special episode of "EdTech Shared" Al shares his plans for #BETT2022, what he hopes to discover, products and solutions he plans to check out as well as highting the amazing group of vendors who have come together with NetSupport on stand SK51 for the show. You can find out more here. Al will be speaking on the first day (Wed) on a panel discussion on ‘Leading a digital strategy beyond crisis response’ in the Leaders @ Bett Theatre between 11:00 – 11:30 and later in the day he will be hosting a discussion on "The cloud’s silver lining: tech Covid-19 has left us with" between 14:00 - 14:35 at the LearnIT conference on the "Tech in the Classroom" learning track.  Al describes himself as a man of two hats, with one he the is CEO of the #EdTech powerhouse NetSupport, with almost 30 years' experience in educational technology and digital safeguarding. With his other, and with a passion for education and, in particular EdTech, governance and raising organisational performance, Al has undertaken numerous roles in education, including being Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust and of an Alternative Provision Academy. He is chair of his regions Governors' Leadership Group and chairs the regional SEND Board. With 20+ years of governance experience, Al also sits on the Regional Schools Commissioner's Advisory Board for the East of England and North London, is an FED Council member, Chair of the BESA EdTech Group and chairs his regional Employment and Skills Board. A well-known face in EdTech around the world, Al is also the author of "My Secret #EdTech Diary" and co-author of “A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education”. Al writes and speaks internationally on the effective use of Educational Technology and is a Forbes Technology Council Member. Al continues to support schools and EdTech vendors with consulting and mentoring – as well as writing for the wider education community and speaking at events. You can find Al on social media here :  Twitter - Linkedin - Instagram - Website  And check out the full range of solutions from NetSupport from here .

In this episode of "EdTech Shared" Paul Gardner shares his experiences working internationally on delivering a digital vision, addressing the core "why", building stakeholder support, building an ecosystem that respects and complements the school community and much much more.   Paul is the Vice Principal of Methodist College Belfast (@MethodyBelfast ) and was previously Deputy Head at Deira International School in Dubai (@DIS_Dubai) and Head of VI Form Kings College, Spain. He's also the author of 'So, you want to teach abroad', which will be available in April 2022 on Amazon.  You can connect with Paul at @DubaiDeputy  You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

In this brilliant episode of EdTech Shared, Kat Cauchi talks about her journey as Editor of RISE magazine, creating a platform and voice for educators, what she learnt, how she fostered the community voice and opportunities for you to get involved too.  Kat Cauchi works at NetSupport as the product manager of ReallySchool, editor of R.I.S.E. Magazine and host of the "Of Primary Importance" Podcast. She is a member of the Global Equality Collective, a Technocamps GiST role model and a Global EdTech author. Formerly a year 2 primary school teacher, Kat is very passionate about education as well as diversity inclusion, closing gaps, and spreading kindness.  Kat is proud of how R.I.S.E. magazine  empowers many educators by giving them the opportunity to have their voice heard. You can follow her on Twitter at @ReallyschoolK … but be warned you may find lots of posts about cute animals! You can subscribe to R.I.S.E. Magazine free here. You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

In this episode of EdTech Shared, Mark Anderson talks all things marginal gains, how those little tweaks to your practice, with a cumulative effect can really have a big impact. He shares some great tips and tricks to help you save time with feedback and ways to streamline lessons with the use of classroom management solutions.  Mark is a teacher of 20+ years, author, international speaker and recognised voice on all things Educational technology. He's also an Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Certified Innovator, Microsoft Certified Educator and expert in mobile learning and associated pedagogies.  You can contact mark at www.ictevangelist.com or on twitter at @ICTEvangelist You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

In this episode of EdTech Shared, Evo Hannan discusses the need to create a culture of innovation in any organisation. Evo is passionate about design and innovation in education. Innately driven by his desire to create positive change, Evo has utilised his 20 years of teaching experience to channel into projects which have made an impact across the globe, including The Agency project and Ed Talks Live, a live YouTube talk show which engages in hot education topics with guests from around the globe. This inspired him to take a step out of the classroom in July 2021 and start his own education venture called Innovation X, a big thinking company created to help inspire new ideas to move education forward. He recently launched Innovation X’s first service called Vertigo, a social media agency for schools and education partners that offers a modern, streamlined approach to communication, engagement, and community growth.  Visit www.evohannan.com to find out more. You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

In this episode of EdTech Shared, show co-host and all things "Digital Innovation" leader Linda Parsons asks the question, what is innovation? She shares her journey, best practice advice and three top tips to help you innovate too. Some great mentions for Ross McGill's Teacher Toolkit, Tom Sherrington and the ADAPT model, TPACK and so much more.  You'll find Linda on Twitter at @DigiLin_ and on her website  www.DigiLinLearning.com

In this great episode Russell Prue talks about all the opportunities and benefits for children from having a School Radio station.  Russell is a well-known character in the Edtech World, he’s an educator and published author.  Russell regularly hosts live shows for colleagues and young people on his broadcasting platform LearnRadio.Net. He’s been a major part of the Mental Health & Wellbeing Events in Cardiff with his live broadcasts that accompany the show. Russell has worked at every BETT Show since it started properly in 1985. During lockdown and throughout the Pandemic Russell has been working with colleagues to produce regular live educational shows for children and young people at home and at school, including a series on Crafting, After School Books Clubs and Mental Health & Wellbeing Shows. From the first day that Schools partially closed in March 2020, Russell had a live learning show with Pie Corbet and friends that generated a listening audience of over 1.2M young folks. He’s in his 12th year of building outstanding radio stations for schools, most are in the UK but he has one in Singapore and two in Dubai. You can find out more at Anderton Tiger Radio     You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

In this episode of EdTech Shared Al Kingsley talks through the questions to ask and things to consider when selecting any #EdTech solution for your school.  Al describes himself as a man of two hats, with one he the is CEO of the EdTech powerhouse NetSupport, with almost 30 years' experience in educational technology and digital safeguarding. With his other, and with a passion for education and, in particular EdTech, governance and raising organisational performance, Al has undertaken numerous roles in education, including being Chair of a Multi-Academy Trust and of an Alternative Provision Academy. He is chair of his regions Governors' Leadership Group and chairs the regional SEND Board. With 20+ years of governance experience, Al also sits on the Regional Schools Commissioner's Advisory Board for the East of England and North London, is an FED Council member, Chair of the BESA EdTech Group and chairs his regional Employment and Skills Board. A well-known face in EdTech around the world, Al is also the author of "My Secret #EdTech Diary" and co-author of “A Guide to Creating a Digital Strategy in Education”. Al writes and speaks internationally on the effective use of Educational Technology and is a Forbes Technology Council Member. Al continues to support schools and EdTech vendors with consulting and mentoring – as well as writing for the wider education community and speaking at events. You can find Al on social media here :  Twitter - Linkedin - Instagram - Website  And check out the full range of solutions from NetSupport from here .

In this episode of "EdTech Shared" Caroline Allams gives us the low down on all things digital citizenship - #DigCit and why it's never been so important.  Caroline is Natterhub’s Co-founder, Chief Product Officer (CPO) and an experienced educator. Natterhub, a gated immersive online safety and digital citizenship learning platform, provides primary schools with a tool to develop crucial digital soft skills and teaches young children to understand more about their digital landscape. Caroline believes in authentic reasons for learning, and that digital citizenship and media literacy warrant a higher profile in schools.  You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com

In their preview episode, Linda and Al just say Hi, introduce their ideas for the  EdTech Shared channel and most importantly, explain how you can get involved. The show is intended to showcase in bitesize episodes, educators and innovators from around the world who want to share their ideas, advice or experience on any topic they think will be of interest. Perhaps a great lesson plan, a book they have read, an event they attended, a product they love or just some tips and best practice to help others on their way....the floor is yours !  If you want to feature on one of their episodes it's super easy, no live show, no scheduled event, just record your topic (7-10 minutes) on your own (so no stage fright) and at a time that suits you on your phone or PC, send it to them along with a profile photo and they will do the rest. Come and join the discussion. You can find Al at www.AlKingsley.com and Linda at www.digilinlearning.com