I'm currently working on the latest issue of Digital Education, which is a free newsletter. I've asked some people I know to contribute their observations on Bett 2016 -- not so much what they thought of it, but their views of products, trends and the value of being there.

The result has been a fantastic range of products and trends reported on, from (in alphabetical order):

• Ian Addison, ICT Leader in a primary school
• Maria Brosnan, CEO of two companies
• Natasha Campbell, Primary Curriculum Advisor
• Me :-)
• FutureSource Consulting, courtesy of Colin Messenger
• Dave Gibbs, STEM Computing & Technology Specialist at the National STEM Learning Centre
• Rose Luckin, Professor of Learner Centred Design at the London Knowledge Lab
• Thomas Ng, School Improvement Adviser (ICT and Assessment)
• Malcolm Payton, Consultant
• Peter Rafferty, teacher and independent technology educator
• Mike Sharples, Professor of Educational Technology at The Open University
• Dave Smith, Dave Smith, Computing and Online Safety Adviser/Business Development Lead at Havering Education Services and Senior Vice Chair of the Naace Board of Management 

As well as links to other blogs about Bett 2016, a competition, news, links to interesting articles and resources, and book reviews, there are also the following "long form" articles:

• The relevance of Stephen Potter
• Perverse incentives in assessment
• A troubled romance, in which Crispin Weston analyses the Secretary of State's speech at Bett 2016
• Windmill Primary School's solution to increasing parental engagement (sponsored article)
• Coping with the recent floods: how our website helped

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