Category: Creativity

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.…
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…
Weekend creativity project – get your writing groove on…

Jun 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Creativity, Writing

The BNZ Literary Awards entries closes off in a couple of days – 11.59 p.m. New Zealand Time on 30 June 2014 to be exact. For those who didn’t even know it was open: The 2014 BNZ Literary Awards is back for its 55th year and now is your chance to get your entry in for New Zealand’s…
Self driving car as a metaphor for the future of education

May 23, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business model generation, Creativity, Design, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Science Fiction, Technology, Uncategorized, Video

I’m a bit slow. I only just made this connection. The guy who invented the self driving car is now trying to create the self driving car for education. His name is Sebastian Thrun and he’s CEO of Udacity.com a kind of online university offering free and subscription-based via their online platform. I need to unpack their business…
Cool blogs I read from time to time: Altucher Confidential, Gapingvoid, Austin Kleon

Mar 24, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Cartoon, Creativity, Disruption, Economy, Education, Personal development, Productivity, Self development, work, Writing

Procrastinate much…? Here are some of my internet heroes and favourite places to waste time reading: James Altucher’s Altucher Confidential: This guy is one of my favourite internet characters. He’s really smart, has a great sense of humour, and has failed at just about everything you can fail at in business. He’s also just started a…
The Department of Entrepreneurial Education 2.0

Jul 9, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Cartoon, Creativity, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Online learning, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Software, Technology, Tutor, Tutor Profile

This was the title slide from my recent talk at the NCLANA Symposium on Literacy and Numeracy. It represents a question in my mind: Why aren’t we teaching educators to be entrepreneurs? The idea is blatantly stolen from Jeff Jarvis’s Department of Entrepreneurial Journalism at New York City University. His idea is roughly as follows:…
The Educator’s Journey Part 1: The Reality of Professional Development in Adult Education

Nov 12, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Creativity, Education, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications

This is my first version of this. I’ve stolen it from Nancy Duarte in her excellent book Resonate. She in turn stole it from The Writer’s Journey by Christopher Vogler who in turn got it from Joseph Campbell who wrote it down in The Hero’s Journey. Campbell pinched from Carl Jung who stole it from our…
6 reasons why you should back Kevin Kelly’s Graphic Novel on KickStarter

Jul 16, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Book review, Creativity, Kevin Kelly, Kick Starter, Kickstarter, Science Fiction

I just joined Kickstarter the other day and I backed a couple of projects. It didn’t cost me very much money and I got a real… kick out of it. Now… Kevin Kelly – who is one of my heroes and probably one of the world’s most amazing technology commentators has produced a graphic novel.…
Redesigning my business model for EdTech

Jun 1, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Business model generation, Creativity, Economy, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Technology

I’ve been thinking a lot about how I can redesign my business model so that it becomes more of an online EdTech approach. Here are my preliminary thoughts. Any new EdTech business model for me needs to take the following into account: Accept online subscription payments from learners for access to the premium level of…