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Cashflow 101 Experiment – Part 2: Developing a vocabulary assessment

Sep 18, 2015

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in Assessment, Cashflow 101, Diagnostic, Experiment, Financial literacy, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, Vocabulary, vocational

Feel free to skip this one… It’s a bit on the technical side. But I wanted to document how I developed a couple of targeted diagnostic assessments. These relate to my Cashflow 101 experiment that I’m running at the moment. This one relates to the vocabulary used in the game. I’ll do a separate post on…

Gamification 101: How To Turn The Course I Teach Into A Game

Sep 18, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Adult, ALEC, Board Game, Card game, Design, Education, gamification, gamify, Graeme Smith, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, teaching, Voc

Technical stuff is hard to teach. This is because it’s… well… technical. As a trainer you have to work hard to make things understandable. One way to do this is to turn it into a game. Or a series of games. I’m interested in this at the moment because I’m experimenting with Cashflow 101. This is…

Embedding Literacy & Numeracy Case Study: Cashflow 101 – Part 1

Sep 15, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 101, 21204, ALEC, Cashflow, Cashflow 101, Diagnostic, embedded, embedding, Financial, Graeme, Investing, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, NZCALNE, Poor Dad, Project, Rich Dad, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, Smith, Voc

I’m trying an experiment. I own this game above. It’s kinda cool… like monopoly on steroids. It teaches principles of investing and financial literacy. Numeracy, in other words. Anyway, I’m going to use it as a case study. I want to apply the embedded literacy and numeracy process that we teach in our professional development to…

NCALNE (Voc) For Managers: Do My Staff Need Literacy & Numeracy Professional Development?

Sep 8, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Funding, Literacy, Managers, NCALNE, Numeracy, NZCALNE, Qualifications, Requirements, SAC, TEC

If you want to print this out, click here for a PDF version. This is based on the TEC guidelines that I reposted recently. Please forward or send the link to people who need this. Any questions? Hit me up in the comments or you can email us apply@alec.ac.nz

TEC Literacy and Numeracy Qualification Requirements for Tutors Teaching SAC Funded Levels 1 and 2

Sep 2, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 1, 2, ALEC, awarua, Funded, Level, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, Pathways, Qualification, Requirements, SAC, teaching, TEC, Tutors

I’ve fielded a few enquires in the past few days about this so I’m re-posting the relevant information from the TEC website. It’s up to date as of 1 Sept 2015. Instructions are here to sign up to do the NCALNE qualification with Pathways Awarua and ALEC online. You can get started for free. Email apply@alec.ac.nz…

7 More Designs For the Underground Advertising Campaign On Learning

Aug 26, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Advertising, ALEC, Campaign, Design, Education, Graeme Smith, Images, Learning, Literacy, Meme, Memes, NCALNE, Numeracy, Underground, Viral

I just posted 6 designs for your underground advertising campaign on learning. Here are 7 more that I think are even better. Please share, print, and distribute. Any favourites? Let me know in the comments 1. NOW WITH BACON 2. THIS IS NOT LIKE SCHOOL 3. AND NUMERACY 4. EVEN WHEN YOU USE WORDS 5.…

6 Designs For The Underground Advertising Campaign on Learning

Aug 26, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Advertising, ALEC, Campaign, Design, Education, Graeme Smith, Images, Learning, Literacy, Meme, NCALNE, Numeracy, Underground, Viral

Here’s your mission: Start an underground viral advertising campaign for learning. In particular, adult learning. And by adult learning I mean something that includes foundational skills such as literacy and numeracy. Share these images. Print them out and give them to people. Particularly those doing the education part. Any favourites? Let me know in the comments.…

Literacy & Numeracy: Now With Bacon…!

Aug 25, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Bacon, Business improvement, Graeme, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, NZCALNE, Smith

I had an epiphany recently. I realized that there is something missing from our main product offering. Now I know what that missing something is. It’s bacon.

7 Things You Need To Do To Totally Dominate Literacy and Numeracy

Aug 13, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Ronda Rousey

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…

Understanding Pie Charts (with Georgie Pie)

Aug 7, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, humor, humour, Literacy, NCALNE, Numeracy, Pie charts

And this one on how to really understand Pie Charts shared today as well… Thanks people. Keep up the good work.

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