Tag: adult literacy

Sign up to Pathways Awarua now…!

Jul 10, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Assessment, Graeme Smith, How do I improve, Literacy, Maths, Numeracy, Pathways, Pathways Awarua, Reading

One of the best kept secrets in tertiary training in New Zealand is Pathways Awarua. It’s not really a secret, but up until recently, this has only been available to tutors and trainers. From now, however, this great suite of teaching and learning tools is available to everyone. Well, to Kiwis anyway. Check out the cool…
Using the Speak to Communicate Progression to Assess Confidence

Jun 4, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in Adult Learning, Assess, Communicate, Confidence, Confident, learner, Learning, NCALNE, Progression, Speak, Speaking

This is a bit rough and ready, but I wanted to get down some thoughts on using the Speak to Communicate Strand that have been rattling around in my head for a while now. Here’s the problem Lots of tutors and trainers notice an increase in the levels of learner confidence that they see over time…
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…
Literacy Jokes Update With 8 More Memorable Masterpieces

Nov 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Education, Joke, jokes, Jokes about, Literacy, Numeracy, Profession, Specialists

Literacy Jokes Update – 8 More Memorable Masterpieces. We’re a sad lot generally… I mean us literacy types more so than the numeracy types. Literacy experts are not funny when it comes to jokes
Update from the TEC Re: Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool

Nov 7, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Assessment Tool, Education, Literacy, Numeracy, TEC

[This is pasted in below from the update on the TEC website which is here] The Literacy and Numeracy for Adults Assessment Tool is an online adaptive tool that provides robust and reliable information on the reading, writing and numeracy skills of adults. The Assessment Tool informs the development of learning interventions that strengthen literacy…
How do I get started measuring learner literacy and numeracy progress for Assessment 6 for the NCALNE (Voc)?

Nov 5, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Assessment, Assessment 6, Graeme Smith, How do I get started, learner, Learning, Literacy, Measuring, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), Numeracy, Pathways Awarua, progress, Voc

Actually, if you’re at this stage you’ve really done most of the “heavy lifting” that I’ve referred to elsewhere in terms of producing evidence for this qualification. This particular assessment task is about figuring out whether you’ve seen any progress in terms of your learners literacy and numeracy skills, or at least the narrow selection of…
Will robots eat education as well…?

Nov 3, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, robots, Software

This clip below isn’t about education as such… but watch it and then think about my question, especially if you are an educator. Comments…?
Group Observation Checklist for Listening & Speaking

Nov 1, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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This post carries on my collection of a few different diagnostic assessment tools for use with learners with literacy and numeracy issues. So far I’ve looked at: A basic, but fairly broad numeracy diagnostic assessment. Creating your own contextualised vocabulary diagnostics including developing a word bank to help you do this. A learner observation checklist for…
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…
MOOC 2.0 – Why the future of online learning is about embedding foundational literacy, numeracy, and learning-to-learn skills

Sep 29, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business improvement, Design, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Flipped, Graeme Smith, Hacking, Improve teaching practice, NZ

If you work in education or you’re just interested in education you’ve probably been following the developments of MOOCs – Massively Open Online Courses. Debate around the MOOCs tends to be polarised. I’m always interested in anything in education that creates such strong emotional responses regardless of which side of the fence you tend to sit…