Jon Smith
Jon is Co-founder and CEO of award-winning edtech venture Pobble.
Pobble provides everything schools need to teach, improve and assess writing.
Find and build inspiring lessons, engage your pupils with tools to write, edit and publish their work, then easily moderate writing judgements online.
Pobble is a recipient of the UK Department for Education’s EdTech Innovation Fund and won the BETT Award for “Best Classroom Aid for Learning, Teaching and Assessment”.
Jon has a Masters in Engineering Science from Oxford University and an MBA from London Business School. Jon started Pobble with his brother and two other teachers in 2013.
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Talk summary | 21 April 2021
Jon will address the question of what it will take to achieve real change in education through the lens of Digital Pedagogy. He’ll look at some of the practical challenges of applying technology to current pedagogical approaches and highlight some interesting solutions that already exist. He will also explore some ideas for how we can develop the educational ecosystem further to provide the foundation for more success in this area.