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School culture determines blended-learning success
When you were at school, you may have agreed with so many current students that ‘seeing your friends’ was by far the most significant positive about school. This has been said to me in numerous schools...
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The danger of students doing what they’re told
I spent the week at events linked with education futures and New Zealand Ministry of Education announcements. They all included presentations that talked about future trends and reports from the world...
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Why Teacher Professional Development has to be D.I.Y.
The world’s systems have shifted to a personalised format. Anyone with a smart phone now expects to be able to curate their life and have their needs served on-demand. Communications are now...
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Virtual Reality is not just another #EdTech toy
A core problem with trying to understand ideas and concepts is the requirement on the learner to translate words, pictures, and even video from a teacher, a book page, or website and imagine the true...
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#Teachers can change but can #Schools?
This post is about schools’ ability to adapt but let me first set the scene as to what drove me to write it. I am not a fan of streaming learners into classes on the basis of existing ability. A system...
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Adaptation verses the 3 Rs
Let me start with a confession. I am a terrible “solutionist.” If you have read this blog before, I think you already know this. I obsess about problem-solving for myself and others. I spend sleepless...
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Is your school feeding inequality?
Education is meant to be society’s great leveller. Offering public education supposedly gives everyone a fair chance to succeed in life in any capacity they might choose, but in reality … it doesn’t....
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How #iOS11 will help #iPad classrooms
It’s been a while since an iPad update has sparked my #EdTech senses, but new features offered by iOS11 offer built-in opportunities for key aspects of what you might call modern or student-centred...
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Highest ranked #FutureReady Education? – #NewZealand! (Told you so!)
How are you doing? I mean … at educating your country’s children? I live in New Zealand and from the evidence I had in 2015 when I wrote my book, A Learner’s Paradise, we have the best education system...
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Critical Pedagogy – My number one from #uLearn17
This post would normally be a overview reflection on the three day conference I have just attended, this time being uLearn in Hamilton, New Zealand, but the final keynote by Dr. Ann Milne made nearly...
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