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Free Writing: 2 Ways You Can Use It to Supercharge Your Writing

Aug 22, 2020

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Adult Learning, Essay writing, Free, How do I improve, How to, How to improve, Improve, Improve learning, Improve teaching practice, Improving learner writing, Self improvement, Write, Writing, Writing frame

Free Writing: 2 Ways You Can Use It to Supercharge Your Writing. Learn how to use free writing to improve your writing skills.
Free workshop in Taupō on Māori cultural competency

Aug 23, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in cultural, Cultural Competency, Education, Free

My friends and colleagues at Ako Aotearoa have been working hard on new resources for the adult education sector. The focus is on what you can do to increase your knowledge and understanding of Māori cultural competency and what this means for your teaching practice or approach to pastoral care. Here’s what you need to…
2015 NCALNE (Voc) Options with Pathways Awarua and ALEC

Feb 4, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Pathways Awarua NCALNE (Voc) 2015 Introducing the NCALNE (Voc) The National Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (Vocational/Workplace) is a 40 credit level 5 entry level professional development qualification for trades, vocational and other specialist content-area tutors required to embed literacy and numeracy into their training. This qualification, abbreviated to the NCALNE (Voc), is…
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…
Minecraft taught me everything I needed to know about lifelong learning

Jul 19, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ako, ALEC, Anxiety caused by learning, Creativity, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Flipped, Free, Game design, Games, Learning, Life, Online learning, Personal development, Teaching philosophy, Technology, Uncategorized

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.…
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

in ALEC, Edtech, Education, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Flipped, Free, Hacking, Improve teaching practice, Lean education, Learning, Literacy and Numeracy

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…
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…
Using Evernote for work, sharing files, collaboration despite some nearly fatal flaws and issues

Apr 6, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Collaboration, Edtech, Education, Evernote, Evernote sharing, Free, Productivity, Resources, Software, Technology, Text, Uncategorized, work

Evernote is a pretty cool app… It works across all major platforms and devices as well. I mentioned the other day that I’m going to try and use it as my digital filing cabinet for everything that’s not already organised online. However, I have a couple of major issues. I’m invested a fair amount of time…
Free online Literacy and Numeracy Professional Development Training via Pathways Awarua NCALNE Lite

Nov 18, 2013

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Graeme Smith

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If you teach trades or do vocational training of some kind you need to check out our free NCALNE Lite modules on Pathways Awarua. We’re just finalising the last two modules, which means the whole programme will be online. This is the lite version of the National Certificate in Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education (Vocational/workplace) –…