BETT Trip to London

BETT {January 22 – 25^th 2014} 30^th Anniversary

It’s the global meeting place or the education technology community, offering first-hand knowledge and advice from the industry’s innovative figures. (BETT website)

“The only place where you can hear from the biggest names in education”

Award winning interactive solutions for any classroom, video conferencing for learning, forums, speed learning, live learning, SEN learning, school leader’s summit, games, learning support, school management, HE and Work Place learning.

All the different ‘stalls’ consisted of help towards: Maths, Science, English, Foreign Languages, SEN, ICT and Media.

Short talks from:

• Teach First
• Hampshire Academy
• Ipswich Academy
• Eton College
• Founder of 100 Word Challenge
• West London Free School
• Plymouth University
• City University of London
• Education Innovation Centre, UWE
• Open University
• University of Birmingham
• Donald Clark, CEO of Epic
• Charles Jennings, Founder of 70:20:10 Forum
• Mike Thompson, Head of Employability for Barclays Bank
• Top Right Group
• VISA Europe

One of the main thing that I noticed was there were lots of ‘stalls’ that contained interactive white boards, touch screen boards/computers etc. They all seemed very similar but very popular.

I did enjoy walking around the different areas as I haven’t been to anything like it before, but I did find it a bit monotonous (There was a lot of the same thing).