Tag: Edtech
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Mandatory Review of Teacher Education Qualifications – Adult Literacy & Numeracy Education Working Group
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in 21204, ALEC, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Design, DipALNE, Diploma, Disruption, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy indicators, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Mandatory review, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, NZCALN, NZDALN, NZQA, Online assessment, Online learning, Pathways Awarua, Personal approach, Personal development, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Self development, Teaching philosophy, TECI’m very pleased to have been part of the working group looking at the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (ALNE) qualifications this week. These qualifications are part of the Mandatory Review of Teacher Education Qualifications that is underway at the moment. It feels a little weird doing this after being asked to put my name forward…
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NZDipALN: Module 1 Content – Learner Centredness
Learner centredness What is a learner centred approach? Learner centred learning is an approach to education which focuses on the interests of the learners. It means that, in your role as facilitator, you put the learners’ interests, knowledge, experience, and learning styles first. Teacher-centred Teacher talks Feels more like an information dump or a lecture…
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New TEC Publication: Adult Literacy & Numeracy: An Overview of the Evidence
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Book review, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, DipALNE, Diploma, Edtech, Education, Education resources, Educator’s Journey, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Finish NCALE, Finish NCALNE, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Pro, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, LiteracyNumeracyPro.com, LNPro, Low literacy levels, Low numeracy levels, Maori literacy initiatives, Maori literacy numeracy initiatives, Map the literacy and numeracy demands, Map the literacy demands, Map the numeracy demands, Mapping, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, Numeracy, Numeracy Indicators, Professional Development, Qualifications, Reading, Reading comprehension, TECThe Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) have released a new summary of the available evidence on adult literacy and numeracy. It’s kind of a meta-review – a summary of a lot of other literature reviews, but it’s quite brief and worth a look if you’re interested in this kind of thing. They’re not going to print…
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Exporting the NZ’s baseline knowledge and skills for embedding literacy and numeracy
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in 21204, ALEC, Assessment, Business improvement, Business model generation, Complete NCALE, Complete NCALNE, Compliance, DipALNE, Diploma, Edtech, Education, Education delivery model, ELN Tutor, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Export Education, Improve teaching practice, Indigenous education, indigenous pedagogy, International education, Khan Academy, Literacy and Numeracy, Literacy Numeracy Professionals, Literacy Numeracy Symposium, National register, NCALNE, NCALNE (Voc), NCALNE Lite, NCLANA, NDipALNE, New Zealand Context, NZQA, Professional Development, Qualifications, TEC, Tutor ProfileI’ve been excited about this before… Usually, my elation is crushed by some annoying practical reality of funding or compliance. However, a new set of draft NZQA rules may make it possible for us to export NZ’s baseline knowledge and skills for embedding literacy and numeracy. I think there is a market for it, especially…
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Free Online Assessment for NCALNE (Voc)
Recognition of Current Competency (RCC) or Prior Learning (RPL) Assessment for NCALNE (Voc) If you already have the skills, knowledge, and evidence to prove it, you could gain the National Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education (Vocational/Workplace) quickly. ALEC are offering a free online assessment to determine whether the FastTrack process is for you.…
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How we let assessment drive our training
Here’s a snippet from the document I’ve been writing up over the weekend. Below is quite a good short summary of how the training is organized and how the assessment tasks pretty much shape the delivery and everything we do around this. Our training curriculum for the National Certificate in Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education…
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Where to start if you’re developing your awareness of literacy and numeracy initiatives
If you are in education you are also in the business of literacy and numeracy. And you should have an awareness of key adult literacy and numeracy initiatives that relate to learners in your programme. Initiatives can refer to projects, programmes, and schemes that are designed to increase the literacy and numeracy levels of learners. These…
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Kids need teachers because teachers are essential to education
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Kids need teachers, right? So do adult learners, right? Well… what if they didn’t… In New Zealand, current budget reforms mean that schools and training providers are facing tough times due to reduced funding. That means some schools will lose teachers and will need to have larger classes. And the teachers are revolting. I mean,…
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Grown Up Digital
How the net generation is changing your world Don Tapscott undertook some research back in the late 20th century (1997…) and wrote it up in a book called Growing Up Digital. It was a book about what it meant for the generation that his kids were in – to be growing up in a digital…
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Develop your niche content and rule the world
The best piece of business advice we ever got was: Just pick one thing… and do it well! It’s good advice for business in general and for you if you work in education. It’s about developing deep domain knowledge in a niche market – in an educational niche market. Stop regurgitating what others have done.…