This year is the first time I’ve attended Bett and I found that there was much to see. There was an extensive amount of shall’s this provided a wide range of resources that would be beneficial in the classroom, many of which were variations of each other. One of which was interactive screens the Bett show represented more than just the SMART screen, this allowed us (the computing group) to discuss what we would use the different versions for in the classroom and found that the interactive table such as the Sun-Tech I.T. Solutions Limited would be ideal to have around the classroom in early years to develop different skills, but we also found that most school budgets wouldn’t cover the ideal use for most of these resources. When imagining how you want you classroom to look when at the Bett show you need to have an extensive budget that many school can not provide.
As well as the theses shall’s the stage also provided speakers that informed us about a variation of computing and classroom developments. One speaker being our lecturer Miles Berry who twitted that he was happy to see us.
Computing group attending the Bett fair 2017
Miles’ speech informed us of Raspberry Pi developments as well as a new adventure Hello Word, this is a magazine that is widely available to anybody who’s introducing young people to computing and digital making. Hello World is a free magazine delivered to your door that provides expert advise and experience of how to teach using Raspberry Pi’s and computing in schools.
I found the Bett experience valuable and will attend next year as this has provided numerous ideas and resources that will be useful in practice, of which I can’t mention all as there are so many.
I’m delighted to hear that you enjoyed your first BETT experience. It can be quite intense but is such a useful way of keeping up to date with new developments in Computing.
Do you see yourself visiting BETT in the future? Might you consider sharing your own practice there when you have your own class?
I think that BETT is going to be an event that I try to attend each year as it can provide a wide range of resources and ideas to be implemented in the classroom.
BETT also provides incite into current teachers ideas and perspectives, which will be useful in 3rd year and my NQT year.
Possibly in a number of years ill be able to share my own practice once I feel established in the classroom.