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Diploma Brainstorming: Describing your personal approach to embedding or contextualising literacy and numeracy

Apr 8, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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This is possibly the first assessment task – or part of the first assessment task – in the Level 6 Diploma of Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education. The name of this qualification is going to change shortly, but we’ll leave that for now: Part 1 Describe your personal philosophy of teaching adult literacy and numeracy: Write…
12 Steps You Can Take to Disrupt Education

Apr 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Collaboration, Design, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Lean, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Lifestyle, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Personal development, Professional Development, Resources, Software, Technology, work

I know, I know… you’d rather not. Nor would any of us really, but I’m working on a manifesto for disrupting education. This is not because I think I know how to do it, but rather because I think it’s inevitable and I want to set myself something to work towards. These are some of…
Using Evernote for work, sharing files, collaboration despite some nearly fatal flaws and issues

Apr 6, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Collaboration, Edtech, Education, Evernote, Evernote sharing, Free, Productivity, Resources, Software, Technology, Text, Uncategorized, work

Evernote is a pretty cool app… It works across all major platforms and devices as well. I mentioned the other day that I’m going to try and use it as my digital filing cabinet for everything that’s not already organised online. However, I have a couple of major issues. I’m invested a fair amount of time…
How do you consume news and music? And what does this mean for education?

Jul 10, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Self development, Technology

It’s worth thinking about… Just consider how you consume the following: News and other things that used to be traditional print media. Music We used to just buy newspapers, book, and CDs. Now though we have a whole bunch of different ways that we can consume things like news, novels, and music. Why would I…
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:…
EdTech 101: Why I chose Pathways Awarua over Pathwright and Udemy

Jun 19, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Design, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Technology

Ok… so I changed my mind. I’ve been on a fairly steep learning curve when it comes to courseware and authoring tools for creating online learning and teaching content. A while ago I said that I was going to use Pathwright instead of Udemy to have a go a developing a FastTrack version of my…
How do I get my course online? Using Camtasia 2 and Youtube

May 21, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Camtasia 2, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Flipped, Khan Academy, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Sal Khan, Screen capture, Technology

Last week I finally did something that I’ve been procrastinating about for over a year. I got a large chunk of my NCALNE (Voc) professional development course online in the form of YouTube clips. I did it without using complicated courseware or authoring tools. This is part of my drive to open source the training…
The Department of Entrepreneurial Education: Business Model Innovation for Literacy and Numeracy Professionals

Mar 27, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Conferences, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Flipped, Lean, Lean education, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Professional Development, Technology, Uncategorized

The guy in the photo – Hugh MacLeod – is one of my inspirations. You can buy the print or shirt here. If you can’t read the text, it says: “I’m not delusional I’m an entrepreneur”. Anyways… Abstracts are due this week for the LN Symposium run by the National Centre for Literacy and Numeracy…
Education Sucks…! So what are you going to do about it?

Mar 7, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Design, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Lean thinking, Professional Development, Technology

This is the title of a book I want to write… There are many books that I want to write… There’s plenty written on what’s wrong with the system, but I think that something positive on what people could actually do to make it better would be a good thing. I’d like to incorporate: Principles…
#edtechbizdev

Jan 22, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Improve teaching practice, Literacy and Numeracy, Personal development, Professional Development, Self development, Technology

Here’s a broad and largely unsupported generalisation for 2013 moving forward: All education businesses (whether for profit or not) are now education technology businesses. Whether we (or they) like it or not. Here’s another one: Because most teachers and trainers spend most of their time doing the busy work of teaching and training they don’t…

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