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Dealing with tutor churn in tertiary organisations: What we need is new business models…

Aug 19, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Colleague and fellow education blogger Damon Whitten posted a great analysis of what is possibly one of the key issues facing foundation level tertiary education: the churn factor. I wrote a brief summary here. In short, lots of tutors leave their jobs (and possibly their teaching careers) before they have a chance to really come to grips with…
Churn: Dealing with the chronic turnover of tutors and trainers in the education sector

Aug 19, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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The tutors are revolting…! Well.. they’re not actually revolting, but they do keep leaving. This is a major problem for the tertiary education sector including private and public. Maths and education blogger Damon Whitten has absolutely nailed this issue in his most recent post. Here’s the skinny: There are some great things happening in the entry levels…
Is everyone working in education burnt out…? Part 1

Jun 18, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Uncategorized, work

I’ve been thinking about burn out quite a bit recently… Actually, I’ve been thinking about it since last year when I got really sick and went to hospital for 5 days. I also meet and work with a lot of people who work in education. And I get the sense that many working in this…
Literacy and Numeracy Plus Work Readiness Warrant of Fitness (WOF)

Apr 10, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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Is this any use to anyone…? It’s something I made a few years back. I’m just cleaning out old files. This link should give you the PDF if you want it: 2010 SMART Work WOF. It’s not meant to be a full literacy and numeracy diagnostic by any means – more of a quick heads up on…
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…
OMG I’m so OCD (Or Digital Tools for my Digital Toolbox)

Apr 3, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in 21204, ALEC, Business improvement, Business model generation, Edtech, Education, email, Evernote, Gear, Productivity, Software, Uncategorized, work

I have a new goal… I’m trying to significantly reduce the amount of paper that I file and store. I’d like to eliminate three huge filing cabinets and shift everything, or nearly everything, to a completely online and mostly paperless system. I’m planning on using Evernote to do this in combination with the camera on my…
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…
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…