How we got from English to Ed Tech. With Andrea Flores and Ben Naismith

All of us started our careers somewhere, and today I'm talking to two old friends and former colleagues about how our years teaching English as a foreign language shaped our view of education and the world. We talk about the resilience and adaptability that those early classroom days taught us, the overwrought lesson plans, learning humility from failure, and how these experiences inform our work now in higher education management, instructional design and ed-tech.  We go on to discuss the direction of education, the resurgence of interest in humanities subjects in the face of AI, staying up t...