Remember the date: 23rd Jan 2015 - The day that Digital Leaders took over BETT

Yesterday, I took a group of our amazing Digital Leaders to BETT. It had been a few years since I last visit to BETT and my first visit to the ExCel arena. I can honestly say that I was pleasantly surprised at the new layout - one of previous criticisms of Olympia was that it was difficult to find anything due the multitude of floors and numerous halls. It was great seeing the advancements in technology and exploring how some of these can be used in a classroom setting. It was also great meeting up with other like minded professionals and hearing from some inspirational educational practitioners. However, my highlight of BETT this year had to be hearing the inspirational stories from our young student leaders - in particular the Digital Leaders. 

Here are just a few of my favourite tweets:

@clcsimon loved having the students in the #bettarena at #bett2015. Thank you for joining us @bett_show The Digital Leaders rock!!!!!!!

— Adela Knox (@AdelaKnox) January 23, 2015

Students are leading the field: teaching teachers about new #edtech! Potential for technology to be used incorrectly by teachers #bettarena

— Nour Sidawi (@noursidawi) January 23, 2015

What kids want...wish there where more of these at conferences...don't you think? #Bett2015 #bettarena pic.twitter.com/rBMYYMplW1

— Giancarlo (@giancarlobrotto) January 23, 2015

Hearing from the people that know best....the students. Live @Bett_show #BettArena pic.twitter.com/0eRfooh3wv

— Lewis Hall  (@lewis892) January 23, 2015

In the students' debate, lots of focus on "kids as digital leaders", teaching teachers about use of tech. That's good #bett2015 #bettarena

— Mathias Poulsen (@mathiaspoulsen) January 23, 2015

I have also compiled a storiify so that you can read all the reaction as it happened!