Posts by Mark Taylor
Steam School with Jade Parkinson-Hill. LF005
Jade Parkinson-Hill joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped her life.
Our guest Jade Parkinson-Hill
Steam School was founded by former school leader, Jade Parkinson-Hill. For the past 12 years Jade has been involved in launching and leading new schools across the North West. Most notably, in 2015, Jade was named one of the ‘top 100 women in video games’ in recognition of her role in establishing the UK’s first ‘geek’ school in Liverpool.
Jade has been interviewed on TV, radio and the press, including the BBC, Radio 4 and The Times Education Supplement talking about her passions of tech and entrepreneurship, in particular, motivating and supporting young entrepreneurs.
After leaving school leadership in 2016, Jade supported STEM schools in England as a consultant. It was at this time that the idea for Steam School was born.
Steam School hosts a weekly live broadcast with innovators from the world of science, tech & digital media for #TALKTECHTHURSDAYS. By showcasing the stories of young innovators, and discussing tech trends and scientific breakthroughs, Steam School inspires students to raise their aspirations and to develop a new awareness about how rapid technological change is transforming the world in which we live. At the end of each broadcast, students are invited to complete a weekly mini challenge using their innate creativity and problem solving skills in a real world context.
Launched at the beginning of January 2018, Steam School has introduced schools to a wide variety of STEAM role models including US based Astronaut Abby, Craig Fenton, Director for Strategy and Operations at Google UK & Ireland, Pepper the Companion Robot, Rob Bennett, Chief Inspirer at BLOODHOUND SSC and digital entrepreneur, Hannah Anderson, co-founder of Social Chain.
Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview
- Who are you?
- What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
- What was valuable about your school experience?
- Which teachers do you remember and why?
- Who did you admire when you were young?
- What was it about that person that had such an impact?
- What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
- What advice would you give your younger self?
- What does your future look like?
- What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?
Resources Mentioned
Smart Passive Income Podcast – Pat Flynn
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Corporate America to entrepreneurship with Kate Erickson. LF 004
Kate Erickson joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped her life.
Our guest – Kate Erickson
Kate’s journey takes her from working in Corporate American to an entrepreneurial leap that resulted in creating a copywriting agency, that didn’t work out, then back into Corporate America. It took courage, insightfulness and the understanding that combining passions and expertise can be a winning formula.
Her decision to take another leap of faith and partner with her boyfriend on the now hugely successful Entrepreneurs on Fire as Content Creator and ‘Implementer’ has helped them become digital nomads and be able to travel the world while continuing to run their business.
If you would like to explore ways to combine your passion and experience then how about this FREE course Your Big Idea. Kate’s partner and EOFire host John Lee Dumas walks you through step-by-step to find Your Big Idea with video tutorials and timed exercises. yourbigidea.io
Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview
- Who are you?
- What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
- What was valuable about your school experience?
- Which teachers do you remember and why?
- Who did you admire when you were young?
- What was it about that person that had such an impact?
- What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
- What advice would you give your younger self?
- What does your future look like?
- What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?
Resources Mentioned
The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle
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National Association for Primary Education to sponsor the Education on Fire network
I am delighted to announce that The National Association for Primary Education are the new sponsor for the Education on Fire podcast network. This new collaboration will include a new NAPE podcast being produced by Education on Fire.
THE WAY WE WORK FOR PRIMARY EDUCATION
The National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) brings together everyone who has a concern for the learning of children from birth to 13 years. Members and affiliated schools work to improve education through the Early, Primary and Middle Years.
- All are welcome as members; Heads, Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Parents, School Governors. Inspectors, Administrators and entire School Communities.
- Members have an important voice exercised democratically. We influence public opinion and regular meetings are held with government ministers. The association is totally neutral politically.
- There are meetings of members both locally and nationally. Local associations can be formed.
- Conferences and workshops are arranged both locally and nationally.
- The association is administered by an elected National Council meeting termly to review progress and discuss national issues. Detailed administration is delegated to an Executive Committee which reports to the Council.
- NAPE is a prominent member of the Primary Umbrella Group which brings together all organisations working in the primary sector including subject associations and unions. This is a new and rapidly developing field of work which is facilitating cooperation and partnership.
- All aspects of education are experienced by children in their primary schools and we have strong links with subject associations.We often engage in cooperative ventures with them.
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them.
Want to join NAPE? - NAPE Value-of-Membership
Choose to live your life in gratitude with Georgian Benta. LF 003
Georgian Benta from the Gratitude Podcast joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life.
Our guest – Georgian Benta
Most of us have to make a conscious effort to be grateful, we need an experience or some contrasting story that we hear about to remind us that we can be grateful and that we really should be.
My goal with this project is to inspire those that find it harder to be grateful, to choose to live a life filled with gratefulness or at least to get a boost of this amazing feeling when things don’t seem to go the right way.
My vision is to inspire 100,000 people to focus on gratitude and on what makes them grateful in their life. Help me spread the word and share what you find on this blog with your friends and family, with the ones that need it most.
Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview
- Who are you?
- What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
- What was valuable about your school experience?
- Which teachers do you remember and why?
- Who did you admire when you were young?
- What was it about that person that had such an impact?
- What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
- What advice would you give your younger self?
- What does your future look like?
- What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?
Resources Mentioned
Man’s Search for meaning – Viktor E Frankl
Conversations With God – Neale Donald Walsch
Contact Information
Twitter: @GeorgianBenta
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGratitudePodcast/
Website: http://www.georgianbenta.com
LF 002: Ai Addyson-Zhang – Classroom without walls – Using technology to reimagine education.
Ai Addyson-Zhang joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped her life.
Our guest – Ai Addyson-Zhang
Ai Addyson-Zhang, Ph.D is a Social Media Pedagogy consultant. She created Classroom without walls – Using technology to reimagine education and has recently been featured in Forbes.
I am here to help you transform your classroom teaching.
Social Media Pedagogy has elevated and transformed my classroom teaching as well as my career as a College professor. I want to help you experience the same transformation that social media pedagogy has brought to my classroom teaching and my professional career.
BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA PEDAGOGY
- Your students are more excited about learning and are more proactive at self-directed learning
- Your students are getting hired and internships because of the strong personal and professional brands that you have helped them build through effective and strategic use of social media
- You are building a learning community that transcends geographic barriers and interlinks education and practice, as well as the broader community
- Your personal brand as a professor is gaining visibility and recognition. You become more known in your field as an authority in your subject matter.
- Your strong personal brand is attracting opportunities for you to speak at conferences and events, to contribute featured and paid, articles to blogs and major publications, to collaborate on research projects, to be interviewed on podcasts and live shows, and much more.
- Your teaching evaluations are improving.
- You are gaining more recognition from your school because of the visibility you have created for yourself, your class, your department, your university, and your broader academic and professional community.
- And much more …
Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview
- Who are you?
- What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
- What was valuable about your school experience?
- Which teachers do you remember and why?
- Who did you admire when you were young?
- What was it about that person that had such an impact?
- What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
- What advice would you give your younger self?
- What does your future look like?
- What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?
Resources Mentioned
Originals – How non-conformists Change the World by Adam Grant
Mind your business podcast – James Wedmore
Contact Information
Featured in Forbes: https://goo.gl/yoK2Uo
Twitter: @AiAddysonZhang
Instagram: @AiAddysonZhang
Medium (Top Writer in Social Media): https://medium.com/@
Facebook weekly show (Classroom Without Walls): https://www.facebook.com/AiAddysonZhang/
Website: https://www.