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Conference, by Terry Freedman

Conference, by Terry Freedman

Conference: The future of education technology UPDATED

February 15, 2021

The folks at Westminster Forum are running a very timely conference on 11 March 2021, about the future of edtech. (Many thanks to Tony Parkin, who pointed out that originally I’d put the year as 2020. I must have been thinking of those halcyon pre-lockdown days.) The full title is:

The future for EdTech in England - standards, quality and accessibility, the experience of lockdown, and next steps for the EdTech Strategy

and the topics covered include:

  • The EdTech sector today - and prospects for the future

  • EdTech and COVID-19 - educational attainment, engagement with students and their households, best practice and lessons learned so far, and looking ahead to the role of remote learning post-pandemic

  • What works in EdTech

  • International perspectives

  • accessibility

The online version of the Westminster Forum conference is very good: very professional, and technically robust. Of course, the experience is not the same: nothing beats the cut and thrust of a “real” conference where you try to sound authoritative and erudite while balancing a cup of tea (on a saucer) and a plate of biscuits during the networking breaks, but it’s a lot better than most.

Speakers include some well-known names as well as one or two others I haven’t come across. I think it should be a vibrant morning, and well-worth attending if only for the full transcript you’ll be able to refer to afterwards.

Incidentally, if you’re thinking of running your own conference, you may be interested in this artticle I wrote for the Bee Digital website:

How to run an event… without tears


Terry Freedman qualified as a teacher in 1975, has written for educational publications since 1989, and has published this website since 1995.

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