Category: Education delivery model
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Where are the new models of education?
If there’s anything in need of inspiration and innovation it’s our education system. How well does our existing system respond to new technology, rising tuition costs and internationalisation? What about the changing demands of learners and employers?
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What’s the Best Advice for Men?
A while back I reviewed a book by my friend Bill Masur. Now he’s running an online conference. It’s free and it’s all about the best advice for men. No lie.
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You talk too much
Do you work in education? Then let’s face it… You talk too much. And it’s not helping. It’s hard, if not impossible for anyone to learn anything with so much talking going on. From you, I mean. I want you to inspire, innovate, create and educate. And I want to do the same. But there’s…
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How do you become the best kaiako (teacher) you can be?
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in Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Executive Education, Export Education, Indigenous education, International education, Job Profiles, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Profession, professional, Professional Development, Professional standards, Professional Standards Framework, Tapatoru, Tutor ProfileIn my work in tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand, I spend a lot of time thinking about this question and what the possible answers are. One of my jobs is to help develop professional standards for kaiako (teachers and tutors) and others, including support staff, working with foundation level learners in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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What will education look like in the next 10 years?
Today, I found some notes about the future of education that I had scribbled down a few years back. They were just random thoughts. And there was no date on them, but they must be from at least 5 or so years ago. Reading them now, they already feel old. Internet time is a weird…
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10 Disruptive Ideas on How to Dominate Medical Cannabis Education
How would you go about dominating the medical cannabis education industry? Here are 10, actually 11, disruptive ideas from a NZ perspective.
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Ako Aotearoa Professional Learning & Development Workshops
Here’s something new below for this year from the team at Ako Aotearoa. I’m involved with Ako Aotearoa as a contractor in relation to the Tapatoru framework. Have a look and see if there is something there for you.
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How do you integrate indigenous cultural values and worldview with business and education?
In Aotearoa New Zealand, we have been working hard to strengthen vocational training, especially for our indigenous Māori groups as well as Pacific Peoples. This includes a focus on both young people and adults. And by “we” I mean the collective we. This “we” includes government agencies involved in funding and quality assurance, independent research…
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What is Ako? A Māori View on this Powerful Teaching and Learning Kaupapa
What is Ako? Teaching and Learning – a Māori View. Ako is a transaction between the akonga and kaiako, teacher and learner.
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Black swans are everywhere at the moment: And here’s why code trumps bricks and mortar in the future of education
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There are two writers that always make me feel a little smarter after I read anything they write. One is Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The other is Naval Ravikant. Taleb often talks about something called the Lindy Effect. You can look it up but in my words, it means that if something has endured for a…