Tag: adult education
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Writing Embedded Literacy Learning Outcomes
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in 2015, 21204, ALEC, Edtech, Education, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, NCALNE, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), Pathways Awarua, Professional Development, Qualifications, UncategorizedThis is the next iteration of my ideas on how to write embedded literacy and numeracy learning outcomes. I’ve tried to simply the process as it tends to come across as more complicated than it needs to. What I’ve written here updates my Youtube clip on this. I’ll re-record it at some stage soon. What…
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Revisiting Literacy and Numeracy Focused Individual learning Plans (ILPs): Part 2 – New Format You can Download
I’ve been revising the learning plan template that we use with tutors in our NCALNE (Voc) training… Due to the process involved in getting our course online via Pathways Awarua, I’ve made changes to the process and the information that we want tutors to collect. My first attempt at revising this is here along with…
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Revisiting Literacy and Numeracy Focused Individual Learning Plans (ILPs): Part 1 – Tweaking the Format
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in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, NCALNE, Professional Development, QualificationsI’ve been revising my ideas for individual learning plans (ILPs) based on several things: The work I’ve done recently on the online version of our NCALNE (Voc) in Pathways Awarua which updates older templates that I had created; and The need to more closely align learning plans with the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy; plus Some…
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Using the online vocab profiler – Part 4
Generating assessment items for my vocabulary diagnostic I started on this earlier My outline is here. And the initial results from the profiling software are here. And the way that I generated some useable word lists is here. What follows below is an outline of my final selection of words and the sample sentences that I used. Everyday…
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Using the online vocab profiler – Part 3
So I’m working on a new vocabulary diagnostic and I want to model the process as well as the actual template… There’s an outline of what I started on here. And the initial results from the profiling software here. The next thing is to come up with a bank of words that I can use…
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Using the online vocabulary profiler – Part 2
I’m using the online vocabulary profiler to create a new vocabulary diagnostic assessment to use as a model in my course. Here’s my first post describing what I’m working on. This is a bit technical. So if it’s not your thing, just watch some cat videos. The screenshot above shows the output from the vocabulary…
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How can we open source our training and still make money working in education?
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in 2015, 21204, ako, ALEC, Assessment, Business improvement, Business model generation, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, Creativity, Design, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Facilitator, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Flipped, Hacking, Improve teaching practice, Lean education, Lean literacy, lean methodology, Lean startup, Lean thinking, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Metaphors, MOOC, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZCALN, NZCALNE, NZCALNE (Voc), NZDALN, NZDALNE, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Personal approach, Personal development, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Software, TEC, TechnologyIt’s a good question… and one that is constantly in my mind as the owner of a small niche education business in a very small country. I’m not sure I’ve got the answer, but this is how I see the way forward at the moment. What I’m describing below is a process that for us…
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Minecraft taught me everything I needed to know about lifelong learning
Well, the title’s probably an exaggeration… but I’ve taken up playing Minecraft lately. With my 4 year old son. And it’s a great learning curve. On learning to learn. Both of my girls are serious Minecrafters. One is 13 and the other is 9. They’ve been addicts for a while. I’ve remained aloof. Until recently.…
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Free prize inside (if you come to my workshop on Thursday at the LN Symposium)
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in ako, ALEC, Education, Education resources, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Indigenous education, indigenous pedagogy, Maori Literacy, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, Professional Development, TEC, tuakana-teina, Tutor, Whare TapawhaThis is a limited edition set of photo-cards that we made up a few years ago. I had them reprinted recently and I’ve got a bunch to give away on Wednesday and Thursday. It’s unlikely that we’ll reprint these again. It’s small image on your screen, but each card is the size of a regular…
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Is there still a market for the NCALNE (Voc)?
We say Yes…! Here’s why In their recent needs analysis, the NZQA estimated the number of people employed with teaching responsibilities in New Zealand as over 27,000. A significant number of these are working part time, are on temporary or casual contracts, and represent an older demographic as well. Discounting university staff who are not likely…