Tag: disruption

🎙️ THISISGRAEME — EP#002 — Elegance Extinction Podcast: Becoming Awesome in an Age of Upheaval

Sep 4, 2025

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Graeme Smith

in podcast, Books & Writing, creative economy, Education & AI, Family & Legacy

Episode 002 — Elegance Extinction Podcast: the Smith–Merwyn whānau on books, AI disruption, and what it means to carry grace in an age of upheaval.
10 Disruptive Ideas on How to Dominate Medical Cannabis Education

Jun 18, 2019

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Graeme Smith

in Disrupt, Disruption, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, Executive Education, Export Education, Indigenous education, International education, The rise of the educator-entrepreneur

How would you go about dominating the medical cannabis education industry? Here are 10, actually 11, disruptive ideas from a NZ perspective.
Critical Thinking in the Age of Disruption: Executive Education at the University of Auckland

May 16, 2018

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Graeme Smith

in Critical Thinking, Disrupt, Disruption, Education, Education resources, educator, Educator’s Journey, Executive Education, Lean thinking, Uncategorized

One of my goals this year has been to try and put together a kind of DIY MBA for myself. Not really a proper MBA, mind you… who’s got time for that? I like my marriage. What I mean is more of a collection of training and inputs from sources outside of what I would…
7 More Trends In Education That Will Disrupt Our Work as Teachers

Aug 19, 2015

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Disrupt, Disruption, Education, Graeme Smith, Literacy, Numeracy, Teachers, Trend, Trends

A while ago I wrote about 7 trends in education that will disrupt our work as teachers. Here are 7 more. There is some crossover between them. But 18 months is a long time in internet years and the situation in education is changing. 1. Consolidation In New Zealand, there is a good trade in private training establishments…
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…
Self driving car as a metaphor for the future of education

May 23, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in ALEC, Business model generation, Creativity, Design, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Science Fiction, Technology, Uncategorized, Video

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

in 2015, ALEC, Business model generation, Disruption, Economy, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Leadership, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, NCALNE, Online assessment, Online learning, Professional Development, Qualifications, Resources, Software, Technology, Video

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…
As software eats education, education companies will become media companies… but what about teachers?

May 8, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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

I’d love to claim this as an original thought, but it’s not. Well, really it’s a combination of several other people’s original thoughts. So here’s my semi-original thought for the day in the midst of all my work on our quality management system: As software eats education, education and training providers will become more like media…
How do you consume news and music? And what does this mean for education?

Jul 10, 2013

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Graeme Smith

in Business improvement, Business model generation, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Personal development, Professional Development, Qualifications, Self development, Technology

It’s worth thinking about… Just consider how you consume the following: News and other things that used to be traditional print media. Music We used to just buy newspapers, book, and CDs. Now though we have a whole bunch of different ways that we can consume things like news, novels, and music. Why would I…