Following the success of first education Tweet-up held in November, the Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning (@PearsonCPL) and EducationInvestor magazine (@EduInvestor) held its second successful #WeTweetEd #2 event last evening at Learning Without Frontiers at Olympia in London last night.
#WeTweetEd #2 debated what we need to do to keep driving education technology forward, exploring issues such as:
- Do schools, colleges, universities and others need to invest in more kit or just make better use of what they’ve already got?
- Are education staff sufficiently trained and comfortable using social media and other technologies for education?
- What role is there for government, employers, parents, learners and other players?
- What are the barriers to progress?
- How effective is all this stuff really?
We asked attendees to answer two big questions when they registered to attend – and we’ve summarised the results here for colleagues:
The biggest barrier holding us back?
How should we drive education technology forward?
Once again, in the Twitter spirit, each speaker made their points in 140 seconds or less.
The Chair and host for the evening
Janet Murray(@Jan_Murray) journalist for the Guardian and others -Chair and Host
Speakers:
- William Cullerne-Bown, journalist and founder of Research-Research (@WilliamCB)
- Bob Harrison, runs Support for Education and Training (@BobHarrisonSET)
- Dawn Hallybone, Teacher, mum and blogger (@DawnHallybone)
- Andrea Carr, Head of Rising Stars (@AndreaCarr1)
Thanks to our speakers, @Jan_Murray for being our host, and to all of you who joined a very lively debate!
We’re already thinking about how, where and when to do #WeTweetEd #3 – we would love your ideas – feel free to post below or tweet at us.
Thanks!
The @pearsoncpl team
@PearsonCPL