313: Atom Learning with Alex Hatvany

Alex Hatvany is the co-founder of Atom Learning, the UK's largest edtech platform for KS2 children. While working as a tutor whilst at university, Alex and his co-founder, Jake, saw how extra tuition was unregulated and often only accessible to children from higher income families. Frustrated, he and Jake resolved to build a platform to help primary school children from all backgrounds prepare for entrance exams at top-tier schools with personalised support. Using AI, Atom creates gamified exercises tailored to each child's level and learning style and offers 90,000 teacher-written questions.All primary schools can access Atom Prime for free and Atom's home learning platform, Atom Nucleus, is also free for any child on free school meals or pupil premium. The platform is used across 1,400 schools in the UK and 90,000 pupils currently use Atom. Atom raised $25million from SoftBank - the largest Series A round ever secured by a UK-based edtech platform.Websitewww.atomlearning.co.ukSocial Media Informationhttps://twitter.com/atomlearninghttps://www.instagram.com/atomlearning/https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-hatvany-2b0495103/?originalSubdomain=ukResources MentionedThe Sales Acceleration Formula - Mark RobergeWhen Breath Becomes Air Show SponsorNational Association for Primary Education (NAPE) are planning a Primary Education Summit in March 2023. For more information please visit www.educationonfire.com/summitMentioned in this episode:NAPE Al Kingsley Summit PromoWatch Mark Taylor interview Al Kingsley about 'Creating Digital Strategies for Schools' as part of the Primary Education Summit 2023 - Visions for the Future - presented by National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) https://www.educationonfire.com/creating-digital-strategies-for-schools/

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Do you feel the education system is sucking the life out of you and the pupils you serve? I think many of us wish we could click our fingers and make it fit for purpose. A place of growth with shared learning that empowers pupils to be their best selves, so they can create a world they want to inhabit now and in the future. While a magic wand or a visionary politician might sound like the answer I believe change is already happening. Educators are changing futures one conversation at a time. New technology and the environments where we learn are beginning to look different both in and out of the classroom. I hope you are seeing this first hand and are excited about what you can share with your pupils. We are having conversations, sharing organisations and communities that are supporting education in a way that you may have not experienced. Educational change will come from us all working in way that supports the best interests of each of our pupils, personalised learning. Governments and policy makers will follow when they see fully how it can be different. So let us teach, coach, mentor and create an environment that fuels every child with feedback, inspiration, resilience and empowerment. The Education on Fire community is shining the torch, so no matter where you are in the world or how you are supporting children this podcast is here for you. ‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’