Education on Continue

all just words

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:45:00 +0000

When people run in circles It's a very, very mad world, mad world

what data actually matters and are we paying attention to it?

Tue, 20 May 2025 09:44:59 +0000

On checking our defaults, checking the data that shapes those defaults, and checking the forces that enable and enforce both.

on conversations not had

Wed, 15 May 2019 20:38:37 +0000

Until we as a society make ways to work together differently, to do better together. We'll keep paying the cost.

quite a long way from cairo

Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:57:41 +0000

If we value a civil society, then collectively we must consider the complexity and cost of what it is to be that civil society.

learners and changes

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:20:37 +0000

This statement, appeared on the VLN recently.

“The rate of change in education is too slow for our priority learners - Māori, Pasifika, students with special educational needs? Do you agree or disagree?”

If you removed the phrase “education” out of this statement, would it make anymore sense?

“The rate of change in society is too slow for our priority learners - Māori, Pasifika, students with special societal needs?”

“The rate of change in parents is too slow for our priority learners - Māori, Pasifika, students with special parental needs?”
We can do all the whizz-bang work in education and make ourselves sound futurific with flipped classrooms, QR codes, Google glasses and all - but if you look around at society - it’s still pretty similar to what we’ve always had.

Public Achievement Information

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:03:17 +0000

Buried deep within the Ministry’s website are these pages. If you’re at all interested in the future of NZ education - please take the time to peruse them and consider what they mean for the shape and feel of schools and learning.

Public Achievement Information page

Flyer for parents on PAI

Timeline for PAI - 2012 - 2017

PAI - The Case for system-wide improvement

PAI - Use of Data - Expected Outcomes

Writing in the Age of Distraction

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:47:55 +0000

If we're to teach writing as a skill, it's the doing of the skill that matters.

Halfway to halfway.

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:18:10 +0000

You tell me your blue skies fade to grey You tell me your passion's gone away

cantilever challenge

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:34:14 +0000

The cantilever challenge is a problem solving exercise, that requires students to work as a team, design and engineer a simple cantilever beam, work to a short time frame, and solve problems as the arise. All on blu-tack, ice lolly sticks, some tape and a handful of paper clips.

It’s a fun use of session, although the cleanup can take a while.

The sessions introduced with a wikipedia page and some examples such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Fallingwater’, Old Trafford and a reference to the Caketin here in Wellington. The discussion wasn’t so much on the engineering details, but the advantages of using a cantilever in a design. Several pointed out that at the Caketin a design using a cantilever allows everyone to see the field without anything blocking the view.