We keep saying that we know that technology isn’t a silver bullet. But we act as though we believe it really is.”
In January, I made the trek down to Docklands to the Bett Show, the annual educational technology event that used to be held, conveniently for me, at Olympia (number 10 bus from Euston). Now, it’s at ExCel London, so far East I swear that if you could get on the roof, you’d see the Dutch coast.
The show, as you’d expect, is packed with interesting devices -– what Microsoft’s global education boss Anthony Salcito calls “stuff”, as in his complaint about the school leaders whose approach is: “Get the stuff, then use the stuff to help us do what we were doing before.”
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