Category: New Zealand

Red Peak: How To Compare The Different Flag Choices

Oct 1, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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So my bro Simon allegedly started the Red Peak social media campaign. I already linked to his first post about this here. And after flying Red Peak at half mast for a few days (after we thought all was lost), it was great to see that those in power changed their minds. Now it looks…
Go Red Peak…!

Sep 23, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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It’s a Flag For Ants…! A Visual Designer’s Perspective on Selecting NZ’s Next Flag

Sep 1, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in change, Design, Don’t, Flag, New Zealand, NZ

Assume for a moment that you can get over your objections to changing the NZ flag. Put aside the issue of the 26 million dollar referendum. Choke down the emotionalism and emotionalizing if you can. Forget about the conspiracy theories (don’t worry… the bad guys aren’t that smart). Now imagine, without making any judgment, that…
Facing the challenge: Foundation Learning for Adults in Aotearoa New Zealand

Jan 13, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Benseman, Education, Literacy, Maori, New Zealand, Numeracy

If you’re starting out with your literacy and numeracy professional development you need to read a good overview of the background to this field. The publication Facing the Challenge: Foundation Learning for Adults in Aotearoa New Zealand is one of the only New Zealand-focused books on foundation-level adult literacy and numeracy education. The book’s scope covers different…
Becoming Antifragile in Education – 4 Things You Can Do Right Now

Jan 3, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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How to become antifragile so every blow makes you stronger Nassem Taleb is an expert on risk and probability and he recommends in his latest book that we become less fragile, more robust, and actually antifragile. This is more than just Sissy Resilience… and this means that when the stuff hits the fan you actually bounce back…
How do I get started on Assessment 5 of the NCALNE (Voc) and demonstrating that I’m actually embedding literacy and numeracy into my training?

Nov 5, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re up to this stage, you’re actually about, or even over, half way. This section is a big chunk… but it’s also the teaching component of the qualification. Basically, after having mapped the literacy and numeracy demands, and diagnosed your learners literacy and numeracy needs, you actually need to get out there and do some…
How do I get started on Literacy and Numeracy Diagnostic Assessment – and Assessment 4 of the NCALNE (Voc)

Nov 4, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re like a lot of people doing the NCALNE (Voc) literacy and numeracy professional development, you realise there’s a bit of what I call “heavy lifting” to do when you get to this stage. This not because literacy and numeracy diagnostic assessment is any harder than any other part (well… it might be), but the main…
How do I get started on Assessment 3 of the NCALNE (Voc) including Mapping with the Learning Progressions?

Nov 4, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you need a hand getting cracking on your Assessment 3, which involves doing an analysis of the literacy and numeracy demands of your course, there are several resources online that might be useful: If you haven’t seen it already, all of our course content is now online in interactive modules as part of the Pathways Awarua…
How to get started on Assessment 2 of the NCALNE (Voc) on Maori Literacy and Numeracy

Nov 3, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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If you’re feeling like you’re having a tough time getting started on Assessment 2 of your NCALNE (Voc) on Maori Literacy and Numeracy there are quite a few resources here on my blog. Some are feeling a little dated now and are likely to get a refresh over 2015 and moving forward, but for now…
Let’s just sort out the confusion around steps versus levels when it comes to literacy and numeracy

Oct 30, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I didn’t create this confusion, but I’d like to clear it up… One of the things that people I meet seem constantly confused about is the difference between some very similar sounding language that we use in education, and in particular, in the field of literacy and numeracy, to describe things like skills. Here are…