Category: Literacy and Numeracy
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How do I gain access to the TEC Assessment Tool?
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in Assessment, Assessment Tool, Edtech, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, esaa, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Numeracy, Online assessment, TEC, TEC assessment tool, tech, Technology, Tool, UncategorizedI’ve written a lot about how to use the TEC’s Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool. Just type “assessment tool” in the search box on this blog and you’ll find a bunch of things including how to access your learners’ actual responses on the tool. But how do you gain access to the tool…
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Maori Numeracy and Measurement
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in Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Maori, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Numeracy, Numeracy activity, Numeracy for ESOL, UncategorizedIf you’ve seen the Youtube clip for our content on Maori literacy and numeracy, you’ll probably know that I’m fascinated by concepts to do with Maori numeracy in particular. I’m not an expert, but I’m lucky to have spent time with some people who are. Such as my friend in the image above. One of…
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How Do I develop Maths Thinking At Home Or In My Class?
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in Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Low numeracy levels, Math, Maths, Maths Anxiety, Numeracy, Numeracy activity, UncategorizedRecently my friend Damon Whitten has been posting some very cool ideas for encouraging kids to develop mathematical thinking at home. I think the same ideas and processes apply to adults and these can work in classroom situations as well. I reposted his video here on my blog but you might want to head over to…
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How Do I Help My Kids Develop Maths Skills At Home
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in Develop, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Home, Kids, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Low numeracy levels, Math, Maths, Maths Anxiety, Numeracy, Numeracy activity, Personal development, Professional Development, school, Self development, Sschools, UncategorizedIf you have kids and you want to help them with maths you need to watch this short video. Actually, if you know someone who has kids you probably need to watch this. It’s 11 minutes long. You might have to watch it a couple of times. And you might need to share this with…
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Four Tools For Building Cool Stuff Online: Or How To Start Thinking Outside The Box
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in ALEC, Antifragile, business, Business improvement, Business model generation, Conference, Conferences, consulting, Corporate, crushing it, Customer Service, data driven, Design, Design Principles, Development, Disrupt, Disruption, Ed, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, edupreneur, Embed literacy and numeracy, Emergent, entrepreneur, Experiment, Export Education, Good Design, Good ideas, Graeme, Graeme Smith, Hacking, Hacks, Hand, I want a new job, I want to work in, innovation, International education, Just do it, Leadership, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, Measurement, Minimum viable, MVP, online, Practitioners, Professional Development, Qualifications, Self development, Software, Solution, teacher, Teachers, teaching, Technology, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur, Transforming, Trend, Trends, Understand more, use data, using data, UXI went to the Supercharge conference the other day in Wellington. This was a business conference… nothing to do with literacy, numeracy or even education (I know… thank goodness right…?) Lots of cool stuff. The coolest though was the 40-minute presentation by Justin Wilcox of Customer Development Labs. At the start of his presentation, he…
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7 Things You Need To Do To Totally Dominate Literacy and Numeracy
The other day I listed a bunch of reasons why you need to punch literacy and numeracy in the face. Today I want to tell you how to be the Ronda Rousey of adult literacy and numeracy education. Some of this you can do on your own. Mostly, though you need to do this as an…
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What do entrepreneurs do that you could do if you work in education? Part 3: Tools
Tools for your (mostly) digital toolbox The other day I outlined some of the ideas, approaches, and tools that I’ve started using in my work in education that have made my life easier and more manageable. Mostly, I’ve borrowed these concepts and tools from the world of start ups, entrepreneurship, and design. Then I suggested a short…
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What do entrepreneurs do that you could do if you work in education? Part 2: Self assessment
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In my last post I discussed some of the things that I’ve borrowed from entrepreneurial and design thinking. These have worked successfully for me and allowed me to gradually change how I think about my work and allowed me to survive and thrive in a chaotic and uncertain work environment. Like I also said, this…
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What do entrepreneurs do that you could do if you work in education? Part 1: Ideas, concepts, tools
Literacy and numeracy is a tough business to work in due to the increasing demands of… well, everything. I have a conference workshop coming up soon and I’m going to argue that one of the things that has worked well for me (in terms of daily survival) is training myself to think and act more…
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Using teaching strategies (also known as instructional strategies) with embedded literacy and numeracy teaching
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in 2.0, Activities, Adult, ALEC, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, embedded, Embedded numeracy, embedding, Embedding numeracy, Improve learning, Improve teaching practice, Instructional, Instructional Strategies, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Learning Strategies, Literacy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, NCALNE, NCALNE (Ed), NCALNE (Educator), NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, StrategiesSometimes people in the education world talk about using teaching strategies… or in slightly fancier language, instructional strategies. This terminology can be confusing for a couple of reasons. One is that if you google the terms (most people’s first port of call these days), you’re likely to find everything from cooperative learning to discussion-based activities…