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Victoria Ransom is the Founder & CEO of Prisma, the world's first connected learning network for K-12 that fully replaces regular school. Victoria's track record as a serial entrepreneur comes from developing 3 companies including Wildfire, a social marketing software company, Victoria led the company to profitability in just one year and built the company to tens of thousands of customers, 400 employees, and eight offices worldwide. Clients included 31 of the world’s top 50 brands. Wildfire was acquired by Google in August 2012 for $450M. Victoria joined Google as Director of Product, initially leading Wildfire and later Google Express. But after having 3 children, Victoria and her husband and cofounder Alain Chuard, wondered, could they prepare their children to thrive in a tumultuous, ever-changing world? So they set out to reimagine what school could be.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE
- What are the problems of today's education system
How to personalize a student's learning and scale it for others
How to foster a community of learners online in engaging experiences
How to decide big problems worth solving
and much more...
Full show notes, transcripts, and resources can be found here: evolvethe.world/episodes/72
The Evolve podcast is produced by Plato University and is a member of the Social Good Media Network
TIMESTAMPS
(00:00) - Introduction
(01:22) - What are the problems of today's education system
(05:31) - How to research education from an outside perspective
(07:40) - How school funding and higher education influence K-12 education
(10:24) - What is Prisma?
(14:10) - What is the purpose of education?
(15:23) - A day in the life of a Prisma learner
(19:56) - How to personalize a student's learning
(23:16) - How to scale personalized learning
(28:02) - Curating vs creating educational content
(31:43) - How to celebrate student learning
(34:37) - Badges vs grades
(37:36) - How to foster a community of learners online
(40:16) - Creating engaging online experiences for students
(45:32) - Results of Prisma learning
(49:42) - How has Prisma's model changed
(53:40) - How to decide problems worth solving
(58:26) - How to launch a company during a recession
(1:02:17) - How Prisma built their team of educators
(1:03:48) - Call to Action
(1:04:16) - How we can push the world to Evolve
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