The afternoon of the 2010 RM Strategic
Forums consisted on a debate / question and answer session with an expert panel and the
assembled audience. I was asked to be on the panel. I don’t like doing panels
partly because I’m quite inexperienced in doing them and also because I
normally say something that I passionately believe in but at the same time ends
up annoying who ever happens to be paying my salary at the time!
Anyway, the expert panel at the RM London Strategic Forums included my good friend John Davitt, My former Director of Education David Cameron, Education Legend Sir Tim Brighouse, Award winning architect Jayne Bird and me (who after seeing the names of the other panelist was feeling even more out of his depth!).
Photo: @stevegillott
Anyway, despite messing up the answer to my first question or at least not answering it as well as I should have. The rest of the questions seemed to go OK. The topics were fairly wide ranging from the future of learning spaces, to the constraints of the curriculum, to the inflexibility of the timetable, to the role of government in education, to assessment and evidence gathering…
Overall the discussion seemed to go well and I certainly learnt a lot.
One other part of the discussion focused on what the audiences most popular products had been from the Learning Spaces Exhibition.
They were:
- iPod Touch
- Vertable+UST+e-beam
- Flasma Floor
- T41
- Audio Pod
- Apple iMac (in particular showing Garage Band)
- T41 Wireless Hubs
- Smart Table
- Digital Graffiti Wall
I have to say I don’t agree with the order of the list – but then it’s not my list. I thought that ‘Talking Products’ should have got a lot higher mention as well as some of the Lego products on display, the croma key, flip cameras, Windows 7 multi touch and also perhaps 3D projection.
When buying any ICT product for use in schools you must always come back to the question does the added value justify the cost?
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