EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
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I provide professional development in both pedagogy and technology and speak on matters of future focused education. I specialise in student-centred learning, educational use of social media, augmented reality, Design Thinking and providing effective professional development that is centred on the individual teacher’s requirements and current skill-set.
EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
8M ago
How one teaches often feels like a very personal thing. I believe this is primarily due to a lack of structured teacher training across the world. Teachers normally get a year or two of training at the very beginning of their career, mostly in basic classroom management, organisation, and survival. They are then thrown into ..read more
EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
10M ago
I covered the disastrous impact that eugenic thinking had on high school design in my previous post. So, I was interested to see its continuing impact in the highest echelons of academia in regards to the quite famous “Marshmallow Test” and how a team more recently had proved the eugenic-style conclusions to be quite wrong ..read more
EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
1y ago
[10 min read] Important first question: where did the high school classroom come from? It’s important to remember that the high school classroom essentially didn’t exist until the 20th century. It is in fact a ‘new’ idea / experiment. For example, In 1910, only 18% of US 15- to 18-year-olds were enrolled in a high ..read more
EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
1y ago
Talk to any teacher with 20 years experience and they will tell you that education goes around in circles with trends and fads, be it student-centred, project-based, a new technology focus, reciprocal reading etc. Why is this? Why does education keep changing its mind on what to do next? Why does it keep returning to ..read more
EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
1y ago
“You’re just a glorified babysitter” a (non-teaching) husband ‘joked’ to his (teacher) wife. “… I went to school, I know what teachers do and I can see what you do at home in the evenings. As long as you have something to occupy the kids with tomorrow, you’re all good.” Are teachers trained to ..read more
EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
2y ago
I think every classroom and school has a duty to this generation in particular, who spend so much time isolated on their phones and online to make it a weekly, if not daily, norm to say hello to somebody new and look to work on something together ..read more
EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
2y ago
Divide and rule Teaching for complex systems thinking by Rosemary Hipkins is a powerful look at key aspects of understanding and learning that traditionally have been missing from the experience of an average school student. One of the driving ideas in the book is the consideration that starting with ancient Greek philosophy and intellectualism and ..read more
EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
2y ago
Divide and rule Teaching for complex systems thinking by Rosemary Hipkins is a powerful look at key aspects of understanding and learning that traditionally have been missing from the experience of an average school student. One of the driving ideas in the book is the consideration that starting with ancient Greek philosophy and intellectualism and ..read more
EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
2y ago
4 Questions to start with: How much do school reports make a difference? If parents read school reports, how can they / do they respond? If schools are not analysing the impact reports have, is the entire reporting process a waste of time? If report writing is not popular, can we find a more useful ..read more
EDUWELLS | NZ Education Technology Blog
2y ago
When I did my original set of these, they proved by far my most popular contribution to the education conversation, so here’s 13 more for 2022. Hope you enjoy and they help spark some conversations in your school. Here’s a link to all 4 Star Wars Education Poster sets ..read more