As mention in previous posts, I recently spent four days running around a convention center in Virginia Beach helping to make the annual conference of the Virginia Society for Technology in Education happen.
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After four days of running around the conference,1 I only have the mental space for a few quick thoughts.
At the end of September, members of ISTE received an email from the president of their Board of Directors, announcing that the board had voted to merge with another educational organization, ASCD.1 I assume the ASCD mail list received a similar message.
It seems like a rather odd combination, for reasons I still can’t quite pin down.
At the end of next month, ISTE will hold its first live conference in three years.
In late June of normal times, the organization could expect to pack at least 15,000 people into a big-city convention center for the largest edtech conference and expo (with more and more emphasis on “expo”) in the US.1
Back when I was still working for the overly-large school district, I routinely attended several edtech conferences every year. That included the one produced by our state organization VSTE1, usually the huge ISTE event, and always EduCon.
But those three were the very small tip of a very large iceberg. If I had an unlimited budget, and didn’t have to do an actual job, I could have traveled to a couple hundred conferences. And far more if you included every K12 education-related meeting held in just the US.