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As software eats education, education companies will become media companies… but what about teachers?

May 8, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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

I’d love to claim this as an original thought, but it’s not. Well, really it’s a combination of several other people’s original thoughts. So here’s my semi-original thought for the day in the midst of all my work on our quality management system: As software eats education, education and training providers will become more like media…
Mandatory Review of Teacher Education Qualifications – Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education Working Group

Apr 29, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I’m very pleased to have been part of the working group looking at the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (ALNE) qualifications this week. These qualifications are part of the Mandatory Review of Teacher Education Qualifications that is underway at the moment. It feels a little weird doing this after being asked to put my name forward…
Get the new NZ Diploma in Adult Literacy & Numeracy (NZDipALN) for FREE…!

Apr 11, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Well not totally for free… it’s a competition. Here’s the deal: I want to crowdsource some of the content for our new NZDipALN. This is a professional qualification for adult educators particularly working in trades or vocational training. The emphasis is on strengthening adult literacy and numeracy in Aotearoa New Zealand, but I think much…
12 Steps You Can Take to Disrupt Education

Apr 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Collaboration, Design, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Lifestyle, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Personal development, Professional Development, Resources, Software, Technology, work

I know, I know… you’d rather not. Nor would any of us really, but I’m working on a manifesto for disrupting education. This is not because I think I know how to do it, but rather because I think it’s inevitable and I want to set myself something to work towards. These are some of…
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…
New Zealand Diploma of Adult Literacy & Numeracy (NZDipALN): The ALEC Model

Mar 17, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Once again… I’ve started work on the Diploma. This is like about the 5th time I’ve had a go at writing this thing and hopefully, this time I’ll finish it. Actually, this time it should be more of a collaboration, but more on that in a future post. What I wanted to establish here is…
Discussion questions (And my answers) for the Revised Tertiary Landscape

Feb 19, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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These are the discussion questions from the governance group at NZQA looking at the review of adult tertiary teaching qualifications at the moment. I’ve inserted my answers. Discussion questions and prompts from the NZQA The following questions are designed to prompt thinking and feedback as you consider the landscape and rationale. 1. To what extent…
Yikes…! Mandatory Review of Educator Qualifications including NCALNE (Voc) and Dip ALNE

Dec 11, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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This review has kind of taken me by surprise. I actually disregarded the email from NZQA as it was titled “teacher education review” or something similar. However, NZQA rang me (luckily) to make sure that I attended due to the fact that we deliver the NCALNE (Voc) and we’re looking at delivering the DipALNE next…
How do you consume news and music? And what does this mean for education?

Jul 10, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Self development, Technology

It’s worth thinking about… Just consider how you consume the following: News and other things that used to be traditional print media. Music We used to just buy newspapers, book, and CDs. Now though we have a whole bunch of different ways that we can consume things like news, novels, and music. Why would I…

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