Tag: adult literacy and numeracy

Is Anyone Still Interested In The NZ Diploma in Adult Literacy and Numeracy?

Apr 20, 2016

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Graeme Smith

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It’s been awhile, but I’m still thinking about the New Zealand Diploma in Adult Literacy and Numeracy (NZ Dip ALNE). This newly revised diploma is now on the NZQA framework. It’s a 120 credit level 6 qualification. The new one is a million times better than the old one. I think I started trying to write…
7 Things You Need To Do To Totally Dominate Literacy and Numeracy

Aug 13, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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The other day I listed a bunch of reasons why you need to punch literacy and numeracy in the face. Today I want to tell you how to be the Ronda Rousey of adult literacy and numeracy education. Some of this you can do on your own. Mostly, though you need to do this as an…
Literacy is important…

Jun 9, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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Uh… that’s all. Nothing further Your Honour…
Becoming Antifragile in Education – 4 Things You Can Do Right Now

Jan 3, 2015

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Graeme Smith

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How to become antifragile so every blow makes you stronger Nassem Taleb is an expert on risk and probability and he recommends in his latest book that we become less fragile, more robust, and actually antifragile. This is more than just Sissy Resilience… and this means that when the stuff hits the fan you actually bounce back…
Printable learner attitude questions for reading and maths for adult literacy and numeracy learners

Oct 28, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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There are some great resources in the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. Unfortunately, many of them are simply buried. Here’s my variations on a couple of things that I think are really useful: Learner attitude survey questions for Maths and Reading. Just click the links below to open them as printable PDFs. The images below…
MOOC 2.0 – What could Salman Khan do to make online learning even better?

Sep 29, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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You’ve got to be careful looking for photos of Sal Khan online… There’s a Bollywood star by the same name so it could get confusing… Anyway: Back to this riff about how to improve online learning and in particular MOOCs. A MOOC is a Massively Open Online Course if you don’t know, and has become…
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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But you might ask a painter to teach literacy & numeracy 2013 – Part 3 – Ritchie Howard

Sep 23, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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NCEA levels, credits and certificates

Aug 14, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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The other day I wrote about what I thought was the path of least resistance to gain NCEA Level 3 which you need in order to gain entrance to university. There are other ways but the NCEA pathway is the main one for most kids. Today I looked up a summary of the information about the credits…
How do I make writing learning outcomes accessible to vocational and trades tutors? FRAME => TARGET => CONTEXTUALISE

Aug 12, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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This question has been plaguing me for several years. The heart of the NCALNE (Voc) relates to the teaching practice that trades and vocational tutors have to do. For this assessment, the tutors need to have a go at creating and delivering some embedded literacy and numeracy training. This assessment has diagnostic and formative assessment…