Category: Flipped

MOOC 2.0 – Why the future of online learning is about embedding foundational literacy, numeracy, and learning-to-learn skills

Sep 29, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you work in education or you’re just interested in education you’ve probably been following the developments of MOOCs – Massively Open Online Courses. Debate around the MOOCs tends to be polarised. I’m always interested in anything in education that creates such strong emotional responses regardless of which side of the fence you tend to sit…
I shall call him… Mini-MOOC – ALEC, Pathways Awarua and the great unbundling of education

Jul 25, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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What is school for? You Should Read Seth Godin’s FREE 97 Page Manifesto – Stop Stealing Dreams

Jul 23, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Seth Godin’s manifesto on school and schooling This is a great manifesto on education by internet marketing guru Seth Godin. Seth is referring to the public school system in the US. However, I think what he says applies more generally everywhere across education. The industrial model is broken Seth critiques the largely broken industrial model of…
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

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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 – Mini Podcast

Jul 14, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Time to practice those new and fairly raw podcasting skills. Here’s the audio of a post from a few days ago:
Don’t be SPOOKED by the MOOC – Planning my Presentation continued…

Jul 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I’m back home again today and working on my conference presentation on our new MOOC. So, just picking up from the other week, here are my notes… Need to create some slides next… but nothing with too much text. I’m probably only going to have a one page handout. It won’t have everything on…
Don’t be SPOOKED by the MOOC – Planning my Presentation…

Jul 3, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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That’s the title of my presentation happening next week on Thursday. I’ve got a bit of an outline, but I’m still in the process of working out what I want to talk about. Here’s the basic idea. Launch the NCALNE (Voc) Assessment Pathway. That’s our MOOC. It’s available via Pathways Awarua if you sign up as…
Hacking Learning Podcast Demo – Take 2

Jun 4, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Ok, here’s the second pass. I’ve changed the set up slightly and done some basic editing. I’ve also spent all day messing around with this as I’m finding it pretty exciting in terms of potential. So, if you’re waiting for me to get some marking done, you’ll just have to wait another day. Here’s the…
How do I access NCALNE Lite on Pathways Awarua?

Jul 9, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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Do you deliver trades or vocational training at levels 1 – 3? If you do, then literacy and numeracy are your core business. And you need to make sure that your team have a clear understanding of how to embed literacy and numeracy. Pathways Awarua and ALEC have teamed up to write write a series…