Category: Design
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NZQA Review of Adult and Tertiary Teaching Qualifications (including NCALNE) Update
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, Design, DipALNE, Edtech, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Learning Progressions, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Mandatory review, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZDALN, NZQA, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading comprehensionFor those of you tracking these changes or just interested. The NZQA governance group has just published their first discussion document and minutes. You can access it on the NZQA website here. I’ll post further comments when I’ve had a chance to digest it carefully. However, for now: It looks like the NCALNE (Voc) Qualification…
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Embedding reading into trades and vocational training
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Design, Education, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Hacking, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Low literacy levels, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, Reading, Reading comprehension, ResourcesWorking with my ComCol tutors today… we were looking at unit standard 26624: Read texts with understanding. And we came up with this as a draft template for trying standardise reading comprehension questions for trades-based or vocational training texts that they have to work with anyway. Reading Text Title Read through the text and then…
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EdTech 101: Why I chose Pathways Awarua over Pathwright and Udemy
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in 21204, ALEC, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, TechnologyOk… so I changed my mind. I’ve been on a fairly steep learning curve when it comes to courseware and authoring tools for creating online learning and teaching content. A while ago I said that I was going to use Pathwright instead of Udemy to have a go a developing a FastTrack version of my…
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Embedding literacy and numeracy: The funnel of context
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in 21204, ALEC, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, Personal development, Professional Development, QualificationsSometimes, it’s too easy to just jump straight into the fun stuff. When you’re enthusiastic about using a new resource or teaching activity or you’re just coming to grips with this whole embedding literacy and numeracy thing you might be tempted to just jump into the deep water without thinking things through. This approach does…
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Embedding literacy and numeracy: What’s your plan?
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Cartoon, Design, Diagnostic, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Evaluation, Improve teaching practice, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Learning Outcomes, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, MVP, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, New Zealand Context, Personal development, Professional Development, QualificationsHere’a another one from the Literacy Numeracy Pro infinite content generation engine… It’s important to have a plan. If you are a trades trainer or vocational tutor you need to have a plan on how you’re going to deal with the literacy and numeracy needs of your learners. Why? Well… because the same stuff that…
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How to fix the clunky design of the NZQA Annual Fees Return Form AF01
If you are tertiary training provider in New Zealand you have to complete various compliance exercises each year to maintain registration with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. While I’m generally happy with my interactions with the NZQA. I do think however, that the AF01 form is horribly clunky, needs to urgently change and I’d like…
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What literacy and numeracy-related content would you like to see on YouTube?
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in ALEC, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, infographic, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Maori Literacy, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehension, Resources, VocabularyI’m looking to develop further content to go on our YouTube channel for embedding literacy and numeracy. What kind of video content would you like to see on YouTube? I’m particularly interested in material that supplements our professional development process, but open to any ideas at this stage. Here’s what I’m currently considering creating or…
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Minimum Viable Pedagogy (MVP) – Or Why Lean Thinking Works with Embedded Literacy and Numeracy
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in Design, Education, Education delivery model, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Literacy and Numeracy, Minimum viable, MVP, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Productivity, Professional Development, UncategorizedI’ve written about the possible match of Lean thinking and my field of adult literacy and numeracy education before. I’d like to narrow this down and talk about how Lean thinking works with the idea of embedded literacy and numeracy. One of the key principles in Lean is the idea of the minimum viable product…
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The Rules for Embedding Literacy and Numeracy
Increasing specialisation in adult education and the field of adult literacy and numeracy education means that we can be quite specific about what works. Here’s a brief summary of the overarching rules for embedding literacy and numeracy into trades and vocational training with some questions to get you thinking: Understand your context: What are your…
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Education Sucks…! So what are you going to do about it?
This is the title of a book I want to write… There are many books that I want to write… There’s plenty written on what’s wrong with the system, but I think that something positive on what people could actually do to make it better would be a good thing. I’d like to incorporate: Principles…