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It’s odd, for someone who gets to attend as many conferences as I do, to lust after one more, but BETT09 is certainly it for me right now. Starting January 14, this London Conference is advertising itself as “..the world’s largest educational technology event.” I do not know what criteria that is based on, not that I have any reason to doubt it. But knowing something of what’s going on with education in that country, and having attended the NAACE conference last year in Torguay, this could be an immense learning experience for anyone who is interested in 21st century education.
So this is a friendly reminder to any British readers of this blog about BETT and for anyone interested in hitchhiking there, BETT’s Hitchhikr link is:
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BETT is an amazing event. I’ve been going for 10 years more or less. Anyone in the world of ICT who has anything to sell that might in anyway be useful in education tries to get a space. Big companies have lots of floor space, and small (or poor) companies/organizations try to pay for a table up in the gallery. The British government put a lot of money into integrating ICT into all areas of the curriculum, and BETT is where one has been able to see product lines develop, trends adapted to and adopted by education, and educational policy worked out in realities.