Category: ako

Why Salman Kahn will never tell his son he’s smart

Sep 15, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ako, ALEC, Edtech

Here’s something cool from one of my internet heroes: Sal Kahn. I’ve pasted in the first couple of paragraphs, but you’ll have to link through to get the rest: My 5-year-old son has just started reading. Every night, we lie on his bed and he reads a short book to me. Inevitably, he’ll hit a…
I shall call him… Mini-MOOC – ALEC, Pathways Awarua and the great unbundling of education

Jul 25, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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How can we open source our training and still make money working in education?

Jul 22, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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It’s a good question… and one that is constantly in my mind as the owner of a small niche education business in a very small country. I’m not sure I’ve got the answer, but this is how I see the way forward at the moment. What I’m describing below is a process that for us…
Minecraft taught me everything I needed to know about lifelong learning

Jul 19, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ako, ALEC, Anxiety caused by learning, Creativity, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Flipped, Free, Game design, Games, Learning, Life, Online learning, Personal development, Teaching philosophy, Technology, Uncategorized

Well, the title’s probably an exaggeration… but I’ve taken up playing Minecraft lately. With my 4 year old son. And it’s a great learning curve. On learning to learn. Both of my girls are serious Minecrafters. One is 13 and the other is 9. They’ve been addicts for a while. I’ve remained aloof. Until recently.…
Free prize inside (if you come to my workshop on Thursday at the LN Symposium)

Jul 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ako, ALEC, Education, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Indigenous education, indigenous pedagogy, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, Professional Development, TEC, tuakana-teina, Tutor, Whare Tapawha

This is a limited edition set of photo-cards that we made up a few years ago. I had them reprinted recently and I’ve got a bunch to give away on Wednesday and Thursday. It’s unlikely that we’ll reprint these again. It’s small image on your screen, but each card is the size of a regular…
United States of Education

Jul 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ako, ALEC, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications

This is something that I’ve been thinking about recently… The way forward for many of us working in education is through strategic partnerships and collaboration. This is necessary for our survival both economically as well as psychologically. We are stronger working together than working in our own silos. For this to work though we need to…
Day of the MOOC

Jul 3, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I’m giving a talk next week about MOOCs… Since I’m writing one I thought I better do some basic research and find out what they actually are. My starting point was to look up MOOC jokes. I assumed there would be hundreds. However, it seems that MOOC jokes are a bit like jokes about literacy…
Hacking Learning

Jul 1, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in 2015, 21204, ako, ALEC, Business improvement, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Creativity, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Hacking, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications

Everyone is in the education business. At least that’s our take on things. Obviously, if you’re a teacher, a tutor, a trainer, or an assessor of some kind then of course, you’re in education. However, if you own a company. If you are in sales. If you make stuff for people. If you’re in business for…
“Weaving” Versus “Tools For Your Toolbox” As 2 Authentic Metaphors For Embedding Literacy And Numeracy

May 20, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Education, 21204, ako, ALEC, Edtech, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Indigenous education, indigenous pedagogy, Literacy and Numeracy, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Uncategorized

“Weaving” versus “tools for your toolbox” as metaphors for embedding literacy and numeracy
Evaluating your adult literacy and numeracy teaching against the concepts of Ako and Tuakana-teina

Apr 14, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Uncategorized, ako, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, tuakana-teina

Tuakana-teina is a mentoring approach where typically the mentors (tuakana) share their experiences, and their knowledge as well as provide information. The tuakana is a support person and adviser for the teina and the teina gives the tuakana a chance to learn new things and meet new people. Think of this as ako in action.