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Cool blogs I read from time to time: Altucher Confidential, Gapingvoid, Austin Kleon

Mar 24, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Cartoon, Creativity, Disruption, Economy, Education, Personal development, Productivity, Self development, work, Writing

Procrastinate much…? Here are some of my internet heroes and favourite places to waste time reading: James Altucher’s Altucher Confidential: This guy is one of my favourite internet characters. He’s really smart, has a great sense of humour, and has failed at just about everything you can fail at in business. He’s also just started a…
And another ALEC All-star graduate embedding literacy and numeracy into building and painting in the prison system

Mar 18, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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This another of our NCALNE (Voc) graduates discussing how he embeds literacy and numeracy into pre-trade building training. Great to hear the prisoners’ voices as well here. If you need further evidence that embedding literacy and numeracy into trades really works, then look no further. Of course, it certainly helps when the tutors and the…
New Zealand Diploma of Adult Literacy & Numeracy (NZDipALN): The ALEC Model

Mar 17, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Once again… I’ve started work on the Diploma. This is like about the 5th time I’ve had a go at writing this thing and hopefully, this time I’ll finish it. Actually, this time it should be more of a collaboration, but more on that in a future post. What I wanted to establish here is…
Playing The Email Game is Helping me Clear Emails Faster and get to ZERO inbox

Nov 18, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, email, Games, Personal development, Productivity, Self development, work

I discovered this cool app. It’s called The Email Game and it’s free. It’s helping me get my mailbox under control and often to ZERO INBOX which is kind of like the holy grail for me. It only works with Gmail and Google Apps… which means perhaps you should consider switching away from Outlook if…
ALEC Showcase 2 min pitch: selling our literacy and numeracy infrastructure to the world

Oct 3, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, International education, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Jokes, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Tutor, work

I’m going to a business development thing tonight. I’ve got a 2 min slot to promote my work moving forward. Here’s my draft. Comments welcome…! —————————————————————————————- Kia ora Tatau Graeme Smith here from ALEC. I work in the least funny profession in the world. This is the field of literacy and numeracy professional development. It’s…
The Department of Entrepreneurial Education 2.0

Jul 9, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Cartoon, Creativity, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, Online learning, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Software, Technology, Tutor, Tutor Profile

This was the title slide from my recent talk at the NCLANA Symposium on Literacy and Numeracy. It represents a question in my mind: Why aren’t we teaching educators to be entrepreneurs? The idea is blatantly stolen from Jeff Jarvis’s Department of Entrepreneurial Journalism at New York City University. His idea is roughly as follows:…
Minimum Viable Pedagogy (MVP) – Or Why Lean Thinking Works with Embedded Literacy and Numeracy

Apr 18, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Education, Education delivery model, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Literacy and Numeracy, Minimum viable, MVP, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Productivity, Professional Development, Uncategorized

I’ve written about the possible match of Lean thinking and my field of adult literacy and numeracy education before. I’d like to narrow this down and talk about how Lean thinking works with the idea of embedded literacy and numeracy. One of the key principles in Lean is the idea of the minimum viable product…
Teamly: My main tool for trying to get things done

Feb 17, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Productivity, To do

If you’re like me you probably find it hard to get things done. I tend to procrastinate unless I have very specific goals to achieve and usually need time pressure to accomplish these as well. Ove the last year or so I’ve been using – off and on – an online “to do” list called…
Using Lucidchart for process mapping in our education organisation

Jan 31, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Process mapping, Productivity, SMART Taupo, Software, Uncategorized

We’ve just started using a new software application as part of our drive to do everything in the cloud. We recently signed up for Google Apps for Business and shifted our emails into the Google Mail system, are integrating Google Drive for cloud-based storage and we’re starting to play with some of the other applications…
Why improve your teaching? Why embed literacy and numeracy?

Nov 16, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Book review, Education, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Flipped, Literacy and Numeracy, Productivity, Qualifications, Uncategorized

I’ve just started reading The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. His introduction struck me as exactly what I would like to write for the book I’d like to write on how to improve your teaching practice by embedding literacy and numeracy. So I’ve cannibalised it. Here’s my version and the introduction to my mythical book below. Tell me…

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