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The Edtech 50 – 2020

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The Edtech 50 was launched in 2018 by the effervescent Ty Goddard. It is a fantastic publication that highlights the best in Edtech (including Emile)!

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What is the Edtech 50?

The Edtech 50, now in its third year and produced by the Education Foundation, celebrates the work going on across the vibrant and growing EdTech sector to support great teaching and enhance learning. Supported by sponsor Amazon CWS and with partners Jisc, ISC Digital Group and TES we shine a light on EdTech champions, great products and projects creating new approaches and reaching out into our communities across the UK.

The Education Foundation highlighted the “richness and commitment to supporting our teachers and learners across England, Wales, Scotland and N.Ireland is uplifting – real stories of optimism; people going the extra mile to inspire, share knowledge and nurture new skills.” They also commented “We received hundreds of nominations and our judges shortlisted and helped the Education Foundation team shape the Edtech 50 and ‘Ones to Note’ sections.”
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The Education Foundation

The Education Foundation is a cross-sector UK think tank set up to accelerate and support positive change in the British education system and beyond.

Co-founded by two former teachers Ty Goddard and Ian Fordham in 2011, key achievements for The Education Foundation in its first 5 years of work were:

  • Delivering advisory work and partnership projects
  • Influencing policy development at a national level.
  • Undertaking commissioned research including the first piece of research commissioned by the global technology company outside of the US
  • Hosting and delivering 50+ Education Foundation policy events, conferences, summits and roundtables
  • Speaking at numerous education, technology and policy events and roundtables
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The Edtech 50 is divided into People, Products and Projects. 

Most notably the judges or organisers aren’t included in the list for obvious reasons, but there are some real key edtech people ruling themselves out of the award. It goes without saying that Ty Goddard and his work are essential for raising the profile of edtech and the impact good edtech can have. Mark Anderson – Mr ICT  evangelist himself – is a judge and so also rules himself out of the praise. 

Even though we live in edtech there were one or two products we were unaware of including Wakelet. According to the guide: 

“Wakelet is a visual content platform. For educators and students, it offers a better way of doing things on the Web. It provides a means to bookmark, organise and curate content from across the web and use it to create beautiful, informative and engaging collections. It claims to be the ‘easiest way to capture and share multimedia resources with students, teachers and learning communities.’ The ever-expanding world wide web can be, if not tamed, at least harnessed to provide coherently created content for pupils, whether YouTube videos, images, Instagram posts, weblinks or PDFs etc. A couple of our Edtech 50 judges are particularly enthusiastic, including Andrew Dowell, who comments: ‘Personally use. Fantastic tool for collating resources or items to read later. Great for student use to aid assignment writing. Adapting to user feedback and constantly updating.’”

Our favourite Project was the Creative Computing Club: 

“The Creative Computing Club provides young people in Suffolk with the opportunity to learn new digital skills in a fun and informal learning environment. It organises weekend, after-school, in-school, and private tutoring for 8 to 16-year-olds in computer programming, video game design, hardware programming, electronics and robotics. In the centre’s own words – ‘one of the best things about having our own centre is that we can do big electronics projects and learn new skills like soldering. We had several people soldering for the first time. Our youngest solderer was just 8-years-old.’ There were a huge number of complimentary nominations for the club, and especially for its founder, Mathew Applegate. Typical comments are: – ‘an amazing place to go for my son with ASD. Matthew is great with the children and inspiring. His dedication and commitment to getting children hands-on experience with electronics, software and robotics is astounding. The kids just love his group sessions.’”

Ones to Note

While we were disappointed to miss out on the edtech 50, but we were pleased to see that Numeracy Intervention with Emile was highlighted as “One to Note”.

As the citation points out, our MD Glen was highlighted in the 2018 edition (2019 only featured schools).

This recognition is fantastic and runs alongside the awards which we have won and been shortlisted in the last 6 months including: Bett Award, Teach Secondary Award, Educate North Award, and a GESS Award.

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Related Award News

We were delighted that Emile was selected by the DfE as a resource for key stages 1 and 2.  

In particular, we were pleased that they highlighted our phonicsgrammar and spelling resources. 

We work hard on our resources to make sure they are engaging, challenging, fun and easy to use. 

We were delighted to find out that MTC with Emile has been shortlisted as product of the year by Teach Primary

Run by Teach Primary magazine, the awards help teachers seek out the very best educational resources to support their KS1 and KS2 pupils – with quality determined by their panel of primary experts and educators. The 9 education categories allow them to dig deep into the curriculum, and to ensure only the most deserving resources triumph.

Representatives of the North’s leading University, Higher Education, FE and Sixth Form institutions will come together to celebrate the winners of the Educate North Awards in September 2020, picked by a panel of academics, business people and experts from across the UK.

We were delighted to hear that the work by Manchester Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Education on Emile was one of only three projects shortlisted for the Business/Industry Collaboration – University Sector.

The Bett Awards are a celebration of the inspiring creativity and innovation that can be found throughout technology for education.  The awards form an integral part of Bett each year, the world’s leading showcase of education technology solutions. Produced in association with BESA, being a Bett Award-winner is simply the best way to showcase your organisation with this sign of excellence.

We are delighted that Numeracy Intervention with Emile is one of 6 shortlisted for SEN product of the year and look forward to finding out the results in January 2020.

We were delighted to find out that Numeracy Intervention with Emile has been shortlisted as SEND product of the year by Teach Secondary in their inaugural awards. 

Every issue of Teach Secondary features lots of outstanding advice, inspiration, and comments from some of the most innovative educational thinkers and practitioners around. Teach Secondary highlights examples of best practice, puts new products through their paces, and provides a regular collection of edgy and original lesson plans that can be adapted for any classroom.

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