I WAS AT a high-powered education conference in Manchester last week. Called UCISA16, it’s where pretty much all the senior IT decision makers gravitate for three days every year, as a who’s who of education technology meet to share the latest thinking. We heard from a Californian university that had reshaped its course structure to embrace phones and tablets, a head of IT who used a Minecraft world to monitor his systems, and a risk consultant who told us, naturally, we were all doomed.
But the best speaker – in terms of fluency, slickness of slide and sheer passion – was a chap called Paul Boag. You may have heard of him, because he’s written books, consulted with the European Commission and taken the stage everywhere, it seems, from Angola…
