Category: Lean education
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How Can I Get Better At Teaching? 5 Ebooks For Your Teaching Journey
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in Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Executive Education, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, Indigenous education, inform teaching, International education, Lean education, make better, Read better, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach betterIf you want to get better at teaching, regardless of your role, here are 5 eBooks that are easy to understand and that will help you in your journey.
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The Educator Entrepreneur: Don’t Bring a Whiteboard Marker to a Knife Fight – 17 Prescriptions for a Better Life
Education is a tough business to work in. And that’s true if you are a teacher, a trainer, or any kind of specialist educator. Over the years, I’ve thought a lot about how to survive and hopefully thrive in a rapidly changing educational landscape.
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How to use ZOOM for larger groups so that it doesn’t suck: 3 Strategies for success
So you’ve made the switch to Zoom for online learning and meetings. But how can you use Zoom for LARGER groups so that it doesn’t suck? Find out here.
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Why You Need A Workshop… Even a portable one
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in Adult Learning, Aion, Aion Con, Aion Media, AionCon, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Improve learning, Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Lean education, Learning, Learning Strategies, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach betterRecently, I spoke at #AionCon 2020 on the subject of craftsmanship. This is something that I’ve written about in the Aion newsletter and in my eBook subtitled “The Way of the Craftsman”. One of the things that I wanted to explore in more detail is the idea of the workshop. As a craftsman – and…
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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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Why haven’t I self-published a book on how to embed literacy and numeracy into vocational training yet?
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in eBook, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Executive Education, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, Indigenous education, inform teaching, International education, Lean education, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Numeracy, self-publishing, Should we teach, teach, Teach better, Teach Better Now, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Teaching philosophy, You can teach betterNo good reason really… But today I spent about 12 hours learning how to use Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing suite of tools and resources. It was most interesting. I especially like that you can generate these previews above that show you what the final publication will look like. The actual editor tool is a bit…
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How can vocational teachers from Vietnam improve their teaching practice?
One of the ways is to come to New Zealand…! Yesterday I was very lucky to spend some time with a group of vocational teachers from Hanoi in Vietnam. They are in New Zealand for a three-month study tour with Massey University in Auckland learning how to improve their teaching practice. We spent the afternoon…
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I work in education… Why do I have to use tools from Service Design, UX and Agile?
Thank you, I understand. Welcome to the Brave New World. Your job and mine now require new kinds of tools and approaches. These tools and approaches aren’t part of the regular toolbox of tools most of us are familiar with in academic work. I’m talking about education but the same could equally apply to other…
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How to Build a Do-It-Yourself non-MBA, MBA
Who’s got time to do an MBA. Not me… that’s for sure. Don’t get me wrong. There are plenty of great people out there with great skills. Some of these people even have MBAs. I can see the need to reskill and upskill. Especially in this weird economy. However, I haven’t got time for another…
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12 Reasons Education Is A Wicked Problem (AKA What’s Broken In Education And How Do We Fix It?)
Education is a wicked problem (AKA What’s broken in education and how do we fix it?)