Hosted by John Mikton and Dan Taylor. Every two weeks we discuss all aspects of technology and life in International Schools.
Episodes
Saturday May 07, 2022
Saturday May 07, 2022
In this conversation with Oliver and Leo, we explore how does an idea started at an international school in Rome transforms into an international company with a global presence, the creative tensions and challenges of running and leading a startup in the education sector, and how Leo and Oliver manage and lead their teams. Learnings and reflections from their journey.
About Oliver Page
Oliver founded his first startup NutKase Accessories when he was 17 and studying in high school in Rome Italy. NutKase Accessories is a device protection company focused on designing and manufacturing protective iPad, Chromebook, and Laptop cases for the K12 Education, Health Care, and Enterprise markets.
Oliver led the sales and growth of the company into the 7 figures and now supplies customers in 50 countries around the world.
After his one year of studies in the UK, he attended Draper University of Heroes, a Silicon Valley school for entrepreneurs founded by Tim Draper (An investor in Tesla, Twitch, Skype, Baidu, Hotmail). Whilst there, Oliver co-founded a business called Flowity that won first place at the Draper Demo Day and received an investment from Tim Draper.
After living and working in the Bay Area for two years, he returned to Italy to co-founded Scooterino, a scooter ride-sharing business that won a grant from the European Space Agency and subsequently raised $800k of follow-on venture capital. Oliver is also a keynote speaker and has spoken at corporate, education, and private events around the world, including two TEDx's.
Oliver is also an angel investor in Zaptic and StudyTracks and a fellow of the Sigma Squared Society (formerly Kairos Society).
Oliver Page on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olpage/
About Leo Shortland
Leo Shortland is an Australian entrepreneur who has worked in three continents, started a Georgian Wine Import business (King St Imports), a menswear direct to consumer brand (Divaska), and after joining K12 focused accessories company (NutKase) quickly became a partner in 2017 before his appointment as Chief Operating Officer in 2021.
While working to scale NutKase towards a $100M business, Leo has been an ardent supporter of digital nomadism and remote work, travelling to over fifty countries in the past decade and making investments in high growth EdTech startups.
Good entrepreneurs can change often; the best change all the time. Leo’s driving passion is to change himself and to transform the companies and the employees he leads.
Leo Shortland on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leoshortland/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/leo_shortland
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lshort10/
Resources:
- Big fan of Josh Braun’s content on Linkedin
- Morning Brew Newsletter
John Mikton on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikton/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmikton
Web: beyonddigital.org
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube
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Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Saturday Apr 23, 2022
Craig shares the journey of creating the EduSpark Professional Learning Platform, why this platform, the vision and juggling multiple projects focused on professional learning and then launching EduSpark. What does professional learning look like for schools and educators in the next few years, has COVID reframed our understanding of virtual professional development.
About Craig Kemp
As a well known and respected keynote speaker, workshop host, and global Education Consultant, Craig is a leader in the field of ICT and EdTech and works with Departments, Ministries, School Leadership, School Communities and Educators to understand, design, and implement digital learning solutions and transformations to improve teaching practice and student learning outcomes.
Craig has supported schools and organisations all over the globe to establish practices, protocols and guidelines to support the sustainable implementation of technology into the curriculum to add value to student learning. In addition, he works as an advisor with technology vendors adding value to their products for use in schools. Craig works with these companies to help them build, develop, grow and connect with schools all over the world and has successfully supported global EdTech companies in developing a presence in APAC.
Craig is a New Zealand born educator with over 15 years experience both in the classroom, in leadership and in consulting. He is an enthusiastic change agent that is passionate about every aspect of education and making a difference. Craig is currently based in Singapore.
Craig is well known for his dedication to education through Social Media, with over 45,000 followers on Twitter. Craig is the founder of new professional learning platform EduSpark that is shaking up the professional learning landscape for schools globally.
Craig Kemp on Social Media
- https://eduspark.world/
- igniteedtech.com (Company Website)
- twitter.com/mrkempnz (Twitter)
- twitter.com/EduSparkWorld (Twitter)
- facebook.com/mrkempnz (Facebook)
- facebook.com/EduSpark.World/ (Facebook)
- linkedin.com/company/edusparkworld/ (LinkedIn)
- instagram.com/eduspark.world/ (instagram)
Resources:
One Free All Access Month to EduSpark - register here: https://bit.ly/1monthES
John Mikton on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikton/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmikton
Web: beyonddigital.org
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube
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Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
My wife recently gave me a copy of ‘The Millionaire Expat’ by Andrew Hallam. I loved the book and connected with Andrew on Linkedin. He agreed to chat on the podcast, and here we are. (This is an excellent testament to LinkedIn as a networking tool!)
We learn all about achieving financial independence, work-life balance, and much more.
John Mikton on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikton/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmikton
Web: beyonddigital.org
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube
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Saturday Mar 26, 2022
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
Join the conversation with Philippa as she talks about her new book The Digital Ecosystem ( How to create a sustainable digital strategy for your school). Philippa shares her insights and expertise on her books areas of focus from digital governance, safeguarding, developing a digital pedagogy, and how the changing world, current pandemic, and lessons learned from schools around the world can guide a digital ecosystem development and implementation to build your own digital vision.
About Philippa Wraithmell
Philippa Wraithmell has been an educator for 12 years, working in the UK and the UAE. For the last 5 years she has specialised in Digital Strategy and Innovation in schools, supporting educators globally to develop sustainable Digital Ecosystems.
Philippa is passionate about supporting educators to ensure that they are using the right systems for their schools.
Philippa Wraithmell on Social Media
Blog: www.designedtoteachdigitally.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrsWraithmell
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John Mikton on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikton/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmikton
Web: beyonddigital.org
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube
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Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Sunday Mar 13, 2022
Katherine will share about KnowledgeWorks’ efforts to spark new thinking about ways to prepare students for an uncertain future -- and what that future might hold. Katherine will describe KnowledgeWorks, speak to the organization’s future-oriented research into various focus areas tied to education, and describe some of the patterns of change and learnings she and her team have been seeing over the last several years generating forecasts on the future of learning.
About Katherine Prince
One of the United States’ foremost educational futurists, Katherine leads KnowledgeWorks’ exploration of the future of learning. In addition to setting the strategy for the organization’s strategic foresight work, she speaks and writes about the trends shaping education over the next decade and helps education stakeholders strategize about how to become active agents of change in shaping the future.
Since 2007, Katherine has worked with education stakeholders across the United States and beyond to apply insights from KnowledgeWorks’ forecasts on the future of learning to their own contexts. She designs and facilitates generative conversations that help participants explore future possibilities and identify their priorities for responding to the changing landscape. Katherine also helps people keep their eyes on the horizon and explore emerging issues by leading the development of comprehensive ten-year forecasts, deep dives into specific topics, strategy guides and experiential futures resources and by writing articles and blog posts about the future of learning.
Since joining KnowledgeWorks in 2006, Katherine has also led organizational development initiatives, contributed to national collaborations informed by the fields of systems thinking and organizational change and managed programs to foster teaching and professional learning innovations and to encourage collaborative knowledge management among educators.
Earlier in her career, Katherine supported large-scale changes in working practice at Britain’s Open University by introducing an online portal and an online student feedback system for 7,500 tutors distributed across the United Kingdom. Prior to that, she managed customer satisfaction improvement projects and established a technical communications group at Pacific Consulting Group in California. In that capacity, she helped federal agencies and other clients increase service quality by incorporating a customer perspective into their organizational planning.
Katherine holds a bachelor’s in English from Ohio Wesleyan University, a master’s in English from the University of Iowa and an MBA from The Open University with emphasis on creativity, innovation and change and on knowledge management. She also earned a certificate in Foresight from the University of Houston and pursued training in foresight from the Institute for the Future. Katherine is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists.
Katherine Prince on Social Media
Twitter: https://twitter.com/katprince, https://twitter.com/knowledgeworks
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherineprince/
Website: https://knowledgeworks.org/
Resources:
https://knowledgeworks.org/strategic%20foresight/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/education-futures-studies-foresight/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/forecast-5/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/education-balance-tensions-educations-futures/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/navigating-future-learning-strategy-guide/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/futures-thinking-education-programs/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/futures-thinking-now-drivers-change-futures-triangle/
https://knowledgeworks.org/resources/we-need-human-centered-learning-systems/
John Mikton on Social Media
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmikton/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jmikton
Web: beyonddigital.org
Dan Taylor on social media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dantcz/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DanTaylorAE
Web: www.appsevents.com
Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube
Would you like to have a free 1 month trial of the new Google Workspace Plus (formerly G Suite Enterprise for Education)? Just fill out this form and we’ll get you set up bit.ly/GSEFE-Trial