I Am Learner
EDUCATION • MANAGEMENT • GOVERNANCE
The Blue-Chip Ed-Tech Training & Consultancy
Delivering Transformation Across the World
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I Am Learner
We are an education and technology consultancy based in Scotland, working on every continent in the world.
We bring experience, expertise and passion to everything that we do for clients.
We bring experience, expertise and passion to everything that we do for clients.
Robotical & Marty the Robot
We are Training Partners for ROBOTICAL, creators of Marty the Robot. Email us to discuss a demo/workshop for Marty the Robot.
Trusted Digital Education Advisers
Highly knowledgeable about major technology trends impacting on education into the future.
EASY4TEACHERS
We offer training events for teachers from across Europe through the School Education Gateway HERE and HERE on ERASMUS+ (KA1 Mobility).
Our PIC # is 905555432
Learning Platform Consultants
Digital technology is transforming educational landscapes - we consult in the design of large-scale learning platforms.
Research Reports
We produce major reports written to specification for international clients across many critical education and technology issues.
Network Strategy & Architecture
Global experience in creating and developing national network architectures to support learning for all educational sectors.
We are an ethical and open consultancy that puts the needs of
learners, teachers, clients and partners first.
Our background is education!
Our motivation is education!
Our background is education!
Our motivation is education!
SERVICES
We provide depth and breadth of expertise & experience - and we reach across Scotland, the UK and the World.
Who is Marty?
- - A proper walking robot you can build for yourself
- - Code with Python, Scratch, Javascript & ROS
- - Expandable with Raspberry Pi and a camera
- - WiFi connected, with 9 controllable motors, force sensing, an accelerometer and 8 GPIO ports
Demo & Workshops
- - We are a training partner for Robotical & Marty the Robot
- - Robotical offer lessons plans, technical and pedagogical support
- - Marty is a powerful platform for learning, with fun!
- - View some great case studies below
Find out More
- -Download the Educators Guide
- - Lots of Lesson Packs to make use of
- - Great Curriculum Guides
- - Documentation for programming Marty with Scratch and Python
OUR EXPERIENCE
Our work has included: development of pedagogies, games-based learning, educational research, teacher education & professional development, education in the developing world, national and regional education strategies, national digital and networking strategies in education, teacher and administrator workshops, learning/collaborative platform development (approaches, strategies, architectures, implementation, project management), high level educational network and infrastructure design, business development for tech startups, technology commercialization, event organization.
Glow: the world's first national digital platform for all Scottish schools
John Connell initiated and led the Glow Programme, the world's first national connected schools platform, from inception through consultation, design, procurement and early implementation. Today Glow still leads the world, bringing eLearning, digital content, educational applications, collaboration, and a national sense of community to all students, teachers and parents across every school in Scotland.
Contact us to discuss Digital Platforms. Email I Am Learner
Contact us to discuss Digital Platforms. Email I Am Learner
Grandma's Games: Global Award for Innovative Use of Classroom Technology
Marina Connell used old forgotten kids games and developed digital games to bridge the gap between traditional culture and technology. Her unique approach recognised the power of play as a great tool for knowledge transfer and as a form of personal development for every learner. The learning strategy derived from Grandma's Games was awarded a Global prize by Microsoft in 2011.
Read about this on Microsoft VP Anthony Salcito's blog.
Contact us to discuss Game-Based Learning. Email I Am Learner
Read about this on Microsoft VP Anthony Salcito's blog.
Contact us to discuss Game-Based Learning. Email I Am Learner
UNESCO: Designing & Building Digital Platforms for Teacher Education
I Am Learner partnered UNESCO in a major project whose aim was to design and create digital learning platforms for teacher education institutions in 9 African countries. The platforms enabled the delivery of professional development courses for teachers & student teachers by distance learning. This involved working directly in Namibia and Ethiopia to agree requirements, and also offering a platform-design workshop in Paris.
Contact us to discuss Distance Learning. Email I Am Learner
Contact us to discuss Distance Learning. Email I Am Learner
Supporting Governments to Create National Digital Learning Strategies
We have worked in all education sectors across the world to shape digital learning strategies designed to meet the needs of 21st century teachers and learners. We conduct workshops with Goverments, Ministries, universities and NGOs to help them shape their own unique requirements. We offer a real-world understanding of how to fuse innovative pedagogies and digital technologies successfully for a truly future-proofed education.
Contact us to discuss Digital Learning. Email I Am Learner
Contact us to discuss Digital Learning. Email I Am Learner
Research Report on the State of Teacher Education Across the Developing World
We are specialists in teacher education and teacher professional development. We conducted research into the current state of teacher education across the developing world (including South Africa, Nepal, Cambodia & India) on behalf the Maitri Trust, an Edinburgh-based philanthropic organization. The research focused on the critical need to increase the throughput of fully-qualified and high-quality teachers across so many parts of the world.
Contact us to discuss Teacher Education. Email I Am Learner
Contact us to discuss Teacher Education. Email I Am Learner
We are a training partner for ROBOTICAL, creators of the innovative Marty the Robot
Marty has a friendly face, but he's also a powerful platform for learning, giving kids a fun and hands-on experience with coding, robotics & engineering.
Simple yet sophisticated, Marty is the price of a smart toy but has the features of a real robot. You can start to program him with Scratch, then use Python, JavaScript and even a Raspberry Pi + ROS.
Marty is a proper Walking Robot with Legs & Feet. With 9 Servo Motors and built-in sensors, Marty does much more than just roll around!
Contact us to discuss Marty the Robot. Email I Am Learner
Simple yet sophisticated, Marty is the price of a smart toy but has the features of a real robot. You can start to program him with Scratch, then use Python, JavaScript and even a Raspberry Pi + ROS.
Marty is a proper Walking Robot with Legs & Feet. With 9 Servo Motors and built-in sensors, Marty does much more than just roll around!
Contact us to discuss Marty the Robot. Email I Am Learner
WHO WE ARE
The I Am Learner team combines more than 60 years of working for real educational and technological progress across the world. We are educators who understand the transformative powers of the digital and networking technologies for learning and for social and economic development. Likewise, our international partners bring a rich vein of bith educational and business experience to I Am Learner's work, focusing on transformation, commercialization, smart cities, global funding opportunities and the 4th Industrial Revolution.
John has been a teacher, headteacher (school principal), local government officer, major project director (for Glow, Scotland's national connected schools programme), business development manager, & national digital learning strategist across Emerging Markets.
John Connell
Joint Managing Director
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Marina has proven educational transformation skills and experience of diverse cultural needs across the Balkan Region and Europe. She was a senior consultant in government team in Macedonia that developed National Digital Learning Strategies and Platforms for Education. She brings high academic values to the team.
Dr Marina Connell
Joint Managing Director
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Open Marina's Linked-In Profile
A highly experienced ICT Specialist with many successes in the fields of consulting, project management and lecturing. Very broad technical base with particular expertise in the creation and development of ICT
systems in education and a detailed knowledge of IT Architectures as applied to education
Jim Buchan
Technical Director
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OUR PARTNERS
I Am Learner is privileged to have strong and highly experienced education and business partners both in Europe and in the USA. Our partners work across the public, private and third sectors.
The Transformation Society provides consulting worldwide in education, communication, and organisational transformation, with special expertise in dealing with complexity. Co-founders Neus Lorenzo and Ray Gallon also collaborate with the Information 4.0 Consortium to foster humanist vision in technology development.
The Transformation Society
Global Partner, based in France and Spain
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Open The Transformation Society Website
With affiliate offices across the world, Blacklin Associates can bring impact as an extension of your existing team to optimize current business or to create new opportunities through proven methodologies in developed and emerging markets.
Blacklin Associates
Global Partner, based in the USA
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Open the Blacklin Associates Website
Jochen Berbuer brings unique benefits of a consultancy network of some of the very best senior technical sales managers in the ICT industry to your organization. He has 30+ years experience in ICT and consultative selling. He has operated internationally since 1986.
GoToMarket SmartCity Solution
Global Partner, based in Germany
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Open the GTM SmartCity Website
Get in touch at any time to discuss an engagement or partnership
TOP BLOG POSTS
The most popular posts from the I Am Learner blog.
The teacher has a place of honour in human history; there is an inherent nobility in teaching that persists even today when perhaps the teacher’s true worth is not adequately acknowledged by some parts of modern society.
The Internet is all things to all people. Well, almost. It hasn’t quite got there yet in Education, for instance. But it will. It must. I want to look – lightheartedly, but with earnest intent – at why we in Education need to take...
Too many who design network infrastructures for schools or campuses believe that they are creating something akin to a standard enterprise architecture, and that just a few tweaks will turn it magically into a education architecture. It is a completely untenable view...
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