Category: Design

Navigating a Pathway for Educational Development: Te Whakawhanake Ara Mātauranga

Mar 28, 2024

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Academic Success and Support, Action Steps for Educators, adult education, Adult Tertiary Education, Adult vocational education, Aotearoa, Approaches, Business improvement, Collaboration, consulting, Cross-Cultural Understanding, cultural awareness, Cultural Capability, Cultural Competency, Cultural diversity, Cultural diversity and inclusion, Cultural Diversity in Education, Cultural Integration, Cultural Safety, Cultural Studies, Cultural values, Design, Design Thinking, Digital Badges, Education and learning, education and training, Education delivery model, Education insights, Education Strategies, Educational Frameworks, educational innovation, Educator Professional Development, Educator’s Journey, Framework, Frameworks, innovation and creativity, Innovation Strategies, Innovations in Teaching and Learning, micro-credentials, Māori Education Concepts, Māori Perspectives, Māori Philosophy, NZ, NZ Context, Te Ao Māori

Explore the journey of ‘Te Whakawhanake Ara Mātauranga,’ a transformative pathway for Māori educational development. This post delves into the cyclical process of learning innovation, rooted in Māori philosophies, through stages of potential, maturation, integration, and fulfillment. Discover how these stages intertwine to forge a dynamic, culturally enriched educational framework.
Te Ara Whakamārama: 4 Powerful Steps to Transformative Te Ao Māori-Inspired Development

Nov 14, 2023

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Creative, creative process, Creative Processes, Creative projects, Cultural insights, Design, Design Thinking, Educational Frameworks, educational innovation, Educator Professional Development, Frameworks, Indigenous knowledge, innovation, innovation and creativity, Innovation Strategies, Innovations in Teaching and Learning, Maori, Maori culture, Professional Development

Explore the transformative “Te Ara Whakamārama,” a framework with four stages inspired by Māori wisdom. Embrace a journey of innovation from the conceptual void to the luminous world of realization and beyond. Dive into the essence of Te Ao Māori and unlock the secrets to a holistic design and development process.
I work in education… Why do I have to use tools from Service Design, UX and Agile?

Aug 8, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Design Principles, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Executive Education, Export Education, Good Design, Indigenous education, International education, Lean education, Service Design, Uncategorized, UX

Thank you, I understand. Welcome to the Brave New World. Your job and mine now require new kinds of tools and approaches. These tools and approaches aren’t part of the regular toolbox of tools most of us are familiar with in academic work. I’m talking about education but the same could equally apply to other…
You Need To Read This: Badass – Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra

Apr 25, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Design Principles, Game design, Good Design, Uncategorized, UX

I’m about half way through a very cool book at the moment. It’s by Kathy Sierra who is now one of my internet heroes. You can watch the book trailer above. But you should really go to Amazon and order it. Or download it. It’s about User Interface Design. Or UX. This is a kind…
How Should I Decide…?

Apr 23, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Design Principles, Uncategorized

Here’s something else that I’ve been thinking about recently: What criteria should I use to make decisions? It’s easy to say yes to things. But it’s much harder to say no. Recently, I’ve compiled and collected several decision-making heuristics. A heuristic is like a mental shortcut. A tool for helping to make quick decisions. They don’t…
How Should We Evaluate Our Training?

Apr 21, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Design Principles, Evaluation, Game design, Good Design, Instructional, Question, Questions, Uncategorized, UX

I’m changing how I think about course evaluation… And how everything should be evaluated. Here’s a new set of questions. Try them out for yourself after the next training session you deliver. Or attend. Or after any new experience: What did that experience enable? What can I now do? What can I now show others? What will…
Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box

Oct 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Antifragile, business, Business improvement, Business model generation, Conference, Conferences, consulting, Corporate, crushing it, Customer Service, data driven, Design, Design Principles, Development, Disrupt, Disruption, Ed, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, edupreneur, Embed literacy and numeracy, Emergent, entrepreneur, Experiment, Export Education, Good Design, Good ideas, Graeme, Graeme Smith, Hacking, Hacks, Hand, I want a new job, I want to work in, innovation, International education, Just do it, Leadership, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Measurement, Minimum viable, MVP, online, Practitioners, Professional Development, Qualifications, Self development, Software, Solution, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Technology, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur, Transforming, Trend, Trends, Understand more, use data, using data, UX

I went to the Supercharge conference the other day in Wellington. This was a business conference… nothing to do with literacy, numeracy or even education (I know… thank goodness right…?) Lots of cool stuff. The coolest though was the 40-minute presentation by Justin Wilcox of Customer Development Labs. At the start of his presentation, he…
Gamification 101: How To Turn The Course I Teach Into A Game

Sep 18, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Adult, ALEC, Board Game, Card game, Design, Education, gamification, gamify, Graeme Smith, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, teaching, Voc

Technical stuff is hard to teach. This is because it’s… well… technical. As a trainer you have to work hard to make things understandable. One way to do this is to turn it into a game. Or a series of games. I’m interested in this at the moment because I’m experimenting with Cashflow 101. This is…
Adobe Illustrator Is Transforming How I Develop Teaching Materials

Sep 4, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Adobe, Design, Development, Education, Illustrator, Instructional, Literacy, Materials, Numeracy, Resource, teaching, Training, Transforming

I’m really slow at this, but I’m enjoying how using Adobe Illustrator is changing and improving how I go about developing teaching resources. There’s a lot jammed on this page, but it’s also high definition. It’s designed to be printed at A3 or larger if possible. This is everything that my students need to know…
Sorry, But All Four NZ Fleg Choices Are Rubbish

Sep 1, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Flag, Fleg, NZ

Even if you had some principles for selecting a decent flag, it seems it’s too late. Today we got to see the four fleg, I mean flag, finalists. It seems that someone has stacked the deck in favour of the rugbyist silverfernfleg lobby. Here they are: There are actually only two choices: Hypnofleg or Silverfernfleg in…