Third Millennium Education

Zenna Hopson

The Third Millenium Education is a collection of thoughts and inspirations of stakeholders within education.A podcast exploring state mandated education, its relevance, impact and how it can best meet the needs of third millennium learners, employers and the country.Whether you are a parent, training to be a teacher, a policymaker, an academic, an education innovator or someone working in edtech there will be something for you.This podcast is hosted by Zenna Hopson.www.ZennaHopson.com

  1. 01/06/2021

    Mark Rogers, Executive Director at Collaborate CIC and Zarah Printer, Board member for Care Leaders Covenant Advisory Board

    Welcome to another episode of Third Millennium Education. This week we are so excited to have a special episode consisting of two guests, Mark Rogers and Zarah Printer. We are going to hear from their view on the current education system, and the importance of supportive educators and caregivers in their lives, and how they benefited from it. “One of the main things that I hear from young people over and over again, we actually want to be heard.” “Love should never leave. Represent the fact that when your childhood and your adolescence is disrupted, it doesn't mean that you don't need what every child needs, which is somebody to love you and care for you and to never stop doing those things.” “Caregivers and educators are supposed to be somebody who's rooting for you, supports you, challenges you but never gives up on you. And that's the challenge. And that's what the covenants really are.” “We need to be empathic in our relationships. And we need to be relationship focused, because the evidence shows that it helps children to be more successful.” “Two main things need to be focused on, understanding the needs of children that they look after. And tailoring the educational system for this cohort.”

    39 min

  2. 13/05/2021

    Deborah Eyre, Founder of High Performance Learning

    Deborah is Founder and Chair of High Performance Learning. Her career has focused on helping students reach high levels of cognitive performance. She created the High Performance Learning organisation to engineer a system-change in educational thinking so that we start to accept that most people could be high performers and structure schools accordingly. “It gave me the chance to really begin to understand and do serious research into how the most successful learners think and learn.” “How do we systematically build brains?” “Schools that have adopted High Performance Learning, they just can’t envisage going back to any other way of doing it.” “We need to prepare them for things that are likely to happen. We need to build this kind of disposition, where people feel confident to have a go and unworried if they don’t get it right.” https://www.highperformancelearning.co.uk/

    51 min

  3. 29/04/2021

    Hezron Brown, Founder of More Talk More Action

    Hezron Brown, Founder & Director of More Talk More Action, Ambassador of The Prince's Trust and Business Owner of Beyond Belief “Concentrate on the subjects that are important and will benefit you moving forward.” “Nowadays, teachers are trained to identify the needs and tackle issues met by young people but it is still not put into practice.” “Teachers could not concentrate on helping the students because of their heavy workload.” “Caring and believing from educators is vital in one's life.” “Serious problem with our education system is that young people feel like they're not looked after, or that the education system doesn't care about them.” “With mentoring, we help build that relationship between the young people, the parents and the school. To ensure young people are getting the best education that they can.” “Believe, be confident and invest in yourself.”

    37 min

  4. 14/04/2021

    Hannah Jones, Founder of Connecting Learning

    Hannah Jones, founder & director of Connecting Learning talks about how technology can benefit education. Hannah Jones says “Technology needs to make learning easier, quicker, or better.” “Learners need to get excited about creating content online and collaborating together.” “It is important to have fun while learning.” “Technology needs to make learning easier, quicker, or better.” “Learners should have the option and the ability to use technology as part of their evidence in learning.” Connect with Hannah Jones on Linkedin  Third Millennium Education, it is a collection of thoughts and inspirations of stakeholders within education. What is education for and who is it serving?

    34 min

  5. 31/03/2021

    Lord Victor Adebowale, Co-Founder & Chairman of Visionable, Chair Social Enterprise UK

    This week, we have Lord Victor Adebowale, Co-Founder & Chairman of Visionable and Chair of Social Enterprise UK. We are going to hear from his view on the current education system, and stress how personalised learning can benefit minority youngsters in many ways.  “Firstly, we don't value teaching our teachers enough to give them the inspiration. Secondly, we should think about education, not exams. Lastly, we have to give our kids enough experiences so they can make credible choices about their life now.”  “We ought to be just a bit more expansive. Our education is lazy, thinking that our children will come out of an education system with the ability to manage people or understand the world of work or be creative.”  “If the school hasn't got the time and the resources, kids will act out in other ways. It's logical since children have been forced to go to a place where they feel terrible and their intelligence is not being acknowledged.”  “A lot of the kids in pupil referral units were highly intelligent kids who worked out that the system didn't care about them, so they weren't going to care about the system.”  “Education is important for society because it's the best inoculation against ignorance.”

    34 min

  6. 18/03/2021

    Kathleen Hamilton, Head of Product at Genius U

    Kathleen Hamilton is Head of Product at GeniusU. She talks about her educational experience at Green School, Bali. GeniusU, is an edtech platform transforming education for life long learners. “At Green School students are not segmented by age, but by what they want to learn and how competent they were at any given subjects.” “Green School has this openness and this curiosity that didn’t exist in a lot of other schools. That is what turned me into very much believing in activism as a means of making change.” “Ageism is just a cultural idea. Vertical learning totally got all of us together, there was never a question of, ‘I am more intelligent than this person because I am older’, instead we are open to learning a subject differently, at the same pace at the same time.” “People that are different from us whether that is in background, nurture, nature or whatever, can teach us more than we can possibly imagine, because everyone has a different worldview.” “When I tell how brilliant my high school was to other people, they would look at me like I was an alien. They do not think that you could enjoy High School. And that is what hit me first, there is definitely something wrong with the system, if there is a system where students feel like they would not do it again.” “Learning should feel exciting and inspiring.” “The more people can engage in active learning, the more people can understand how to think through difficult concepts and how to actually problem solve through a process.”

    36 min

  7. 04/03/2021

    Matthew Gordon, CEO and Founder of Spectra

    Matthew Gordon is the CEO and Founder of Spectra, the delivery partner for the Care Leavers Covenant. “Wider society has a role to play in supporting our young people to thrive. That is the central premise of the covenant. That is not just the state’s responsibility but the wider society has a role in nurturing, fostering and enabling.” "I had come into the social care space in earnest in 2014, and I was amazed at some of the lack of empathy that existed for our young people. How our young people are nurtured at home is integral to their positive outcomes. If we turn our attention to our young people who are in care? What is that home environment like? What is the ambition like? What is the vision for that young person? And do we have a vision? Can we honestly say that for some of those individuals coming from lower economic backgrounds? Do we have a vision that they couldn't be anything that they want to be in terms of their professional trajectory? And if we do have that vision, are we facilitating that ambition? And are we cheerleaders for those young people? Young people in long term foster care are significantly better than those who are in residential care who have had multiple moves. For 5 years, we refused to use agency staff because its about trust. Our young people need to feel safe and secure. Peter Bazalgette’s book Empathy Instinct talks about how we do cognitively understand empathy and emotional empathy. It's that psychic transition that allows us to say, I will do that shift, even though I've worked 10 hours already or 12 hours already, I would rather work that shift than my young person being introduced to a complete stranger. And I think that's the psychic transition that is fundamental for improving outcomes. And this person, young man was having a meltdown before my eyes. And that emotional empathy kicked in. And I said, Do you need a hug? And you know, with all of the snot and tears, he nodded his head and came in for the hug. And I'm glad that I did it.

    48 min

  8. 17/02/2021

    Callum James, Founder of Zeal Movement and EventConnect

    Callum James is a music and events entrepreneur, Founder of Zeal Movement and Event Connect. We are going to hear from his rollercoaster experience in both life and education and stressing how personalized learning can benefit disruptive youngsters in many ways. “Teachers were not prepared; they do not have time. For them, it is way easier to just take the disrupted kids out from the classroom, rather than focusing on what could be the actual problem and how to resolve them.”   “Pupil referral units definitely provided much more support than mainstream schools, however, no one was learning anything.”   “Doing practical things rather than just sitting there and regurgitating information benefited me much more than the theory side of things.”   “I got arrested for assault from age 13 and was sent to a young offenders institute. Within that time where I actually benefited the most was from counselling.”   “The main downfall of mainstream education is insufficient facilities and funds to focus on young people that have underlying issues.”   “Mainstream education says that everyone learns differently, yet they teach everyone in the same way.”

    26 min
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The Third Millenium Education is a collection of thoughts and inspirations of stakeholders within education.A podcast exploring state mandated education, its relevance, impact and how it can best meet the needs of third millennium learners, employers and the country.Whether you are a parent, training to be a teacher, a policymaker, an academic, an education innovator or someone working in edtech there will be something for you.This podcast is hosted by Zenna Hopson.www.ZennaHopson.com

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  • Creator
    Zenna Hopson
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    16
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    © 2023 Third Millennium Education
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