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Pathways Awarua is for educators: Share this video with someone today…!

Jul 15, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Pathways Awarua is a great free resource for learners and educators. Do you know someone that could benefit from improving their reading and maths? There’s a short video here explaining how they can use this free resource. Are you an educator or do you know someone who is? If your answer is yes, you need to watch…
Engaging Maori Learners: 6 Short Video Clips

Mar 24, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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These videos came out a few years ago on a DVD. We regularly use the short section on Te Whare Tapawha in the live delivery of our training. But I thought you might also be interested in the rest of the videos, particularly if you never owned a copy of the DVD. If you click…
Using the TEC Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Tool for Adults: Video Content

Mar 23, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Using the TEC Assessment Tool The video below should cycle through the four videos discussing the TEC assessment tool. These are: Administering the initial assessment Administering the progress assessment Discussing the assessment tool results with learners Learners’ messages about good practice and the assessment tool. In our live workshops we usually only get time to…
Embedding literacy and numeracy with the NZ Department of Corrections staff

Sep 29, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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This is a summary of all of the video content to date that highlights some of our best work with the Department of Corrections. The instructors in the various video clips have all undertaken the National Certificate in Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education (Vocational/Workplace). This qualification, which we abbreviate to the NCALNE (Voc), teaches a…
But you might ask a painter to teach literacy & numeracy 2013 – Part 4 – Kushla Clover

Sep 23, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Changing the world with literacy and numeracy: This guy’s $25 education start up is now building a new school every 90 hours

Jul 27, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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This is literacy and numeracy literally changing the world… the developing world. They are now building a new school every 90 hours.The reason: 250 million primary-aged children lack basic reading writing, and maths skills and these guys intend to do something about it. It takes US$25 to educate a child and US$25,000 to build an…
I shall call him… Mini-MOOC – ALEC, Pathways Awarua and the great unbundling of education

Jul 25, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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What is school for? You Should Read Seth Godin’s FREE 97 Page Manifesto – Stop Stealing Dreams

Jul 23, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Seth Godin’s manifesto on school and schooling This is a great manifesto on education by internet marketing guru Seth Godin. Seth is referring to the public school system in the US. However, I think what he says applies more generally everywhere across education. The industrial model is broken Seth critiques the largely broken industrial model of…
Self driving car as a metaphor for the future of education

May 23, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I’m a bit slow. I only just made this connection. The guy who invented the self driving car is now trying to create the self driving car for education. His name is Sebastian Thrun and he’s CEO of Udacity.com a kind of online university offering free and subscription-based via their online platform. I need to unpack their business…
10 reasons why your adult education & training course has to go online or die a horrible death

May 15, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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It’s the economics stupid…! That’s my conclusion to myself at least. Education is expensive. This is because of high fixed costs like buildings, resources, managers, teachers. The technology for online education is now cheap. Educational bureaucracies are firing the middle layer of managers. In fact, traditional bureaucracies of any kind are firing the entire middle class. This…