I had a great chat with Katz Kieley - the mastermind of a fantastic programme of events in the digital world called B-tween. She has been asked by BECTA to set up a collaborative event at the end of March called BECTA X. My chat with her is now a blog on their site
For me, the use of social media is starting to infiltrate a lot of the processes and the debate itself in education. Another example, was a lot of traffic last night on twitter about the debate about new schools and what comes next after the next election. Maybe its under most people’s radar – but the exchange between Bob Harrison @bobharrisonset (tech adviser) and Sam Freedman @Samfr (special adviser on education to the conservatives) last night – and a further intervention from social media guru Steve Moore @stevemoore4good about Nick Gibb’s comments on cutting school capital investment – is a great example of policy debate being out in the open rather than being kept behind closed doors.
We keep saying the debate is hotting up – I think we haven’t seen anything yet and social media will play a major part in the outcome. One question we have though – where are the Labour Education team in this debate?
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