Today’s post was shared with me by Kerry. It is a short clip of Simon Sinek talking about Millennials in the Workplace and raises lots of points that are relevant for us as educators. Simon Sinek is well known for his “Start with the Why” and the associated TED talk. Details at this website: … More Brain Food Fridays: Millennials in the Workplace – Simon Sinek
Kia ora. This week’s post outlines some of the exciting updates to Google Classroom and how you can use Google Classroom to differentiate student learning. Tech Tuesday this week will have a Google Classroom focus so if you are new to Google Classroom come along and I will go over how to get started – … More Google Classroom and Differentiation
This week the Junior Curriculum Review Team will present their recommendations for change. This week’s post includes the Slides Presentation, the supporting document and a link to a reading to support these changes. Junior Curriculum Review Blue Sky High In a recent Set article, Claire Amos wrote Blue Sky High, adapted from one … More Brain Food Fridays: Blue Sky High
Core Education identified Digital Fluency as one of the Top Ten Trends in Education for 2016 and the Ministry of Education has identified it as one of the priority areas for professional learning. So what is Digital Fluency? “Digital fluency is a disposition – A digitally fluent person can decide when to use specific digital technologies … More Brain Food Fridays: Digital Fluency
Today’s blog post comes from Bex Williams. The Singularity University asked some of the teenagers who attended the Exponential Youth Camp (XYC) how they would design the future of education. They came up with six key areas: Make it about ME – personalise the learning Lets DO things – project based and hands-on learning Don’t … More Brain Food Fridays: 6 tips for the Future of Education
This week’s link was shared with me by Michelle and looks at the importance of getting students to ask questions. In a recent blog post, Katie L Martin asks “Are we asking the right questions in school? Are we giving students the opportunities to ask questions and then giving them time to use their … More Brain Food Fridays: Questions instead of Answers
Today’s blog post is a link to a video that I first saw in a blog post by Derek Wenmoth from Core Education called Thriving in A Modern World The video, focuses on the key skills needed for the future which are summarised as the skills that make us human. Curiosity Creativity Initiative Multi-disciplinary Thinking … More Brain Food Fridays: The Adaptable Mind
This week’s blog post was inspired by an RNZ National Insight documentary on “The Future of Work” The documentary asks what will the future be like for today’s students and is education providing the skills that they will need for a future we can’t quite imagine. Professor Robert Reich from the University of Berkeley talks … More Brain Food Fridays: The Future of Work
This blog post is written by the Student Agency group: Karla, Cassie, Catherine, Haydee and Ed What is Student Agency? That is the question we have been investigating over the last 5 months. We started out alongside every other school in the cluster asking the same question. We have made significant progress since, and come … More Student Agency
NZCER have recently published a report on the Sport in Education Initiative. This programme started in 2013 and focuses on how to use sport as a context for teaching and learning with the aim of improving academic, social and sporting outcomes. Eight schools across New Zealand were chosen to be part of the project. Teachers … More Brain Food Fridays: Sport in Education Initiative
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