# Hands-on activities in the morning session. Something to get your teeth into before lunch and the desire to nap kicks in.
# Power sockets available at seats. If you expect people to be tweeting, provide them with some power – especially if we’re going to sit there on-and-off for 3 hours or so.

Yes!

RE Sonia Livingstone, she’s one of the UK’s experts on media literacy, a researcher and hard core at that, so while the presentation needed some work to get into it as an audience member, the content was outstanding and, I thought, dense rather than conflated.

The last session was indeed next steps, and they were mostly practical ones coming from the floor. The policy framework that prevents many of us doing what we need to do will take longer to change but it will. There were policymakers from Becta there, though not shouting about it, and there were at least 15 head teachers (probably a good few more) amongst a selection of folk picked to represent as many levels of the policy hierarchy as possible.

I’ve got a blog post about how we ‘listen’ to young people, and why we need a mix of presence and virtualness. If you can be patient for that, though, I’d be grateful. Off to continue a wee break first.

Have no fear about the impact of the conference on the Bectoids – they’ve got a network and content to guide their work for the next six months in response to whatever government we get in.

If events like this then pursue the mainstream and actually influence change then great – if they are the great and the good simply agreeing with each other about how crap it is that nobody makes the effort to understand and “get with it” then I wonder if it was money well spent? After all there is grassroots and then there is grassroots!