As HOD Performing Arts at Rutherford College, Manu Fa'aea-Semeatu worked with Pasifika students to realise their full potential, catering for their abilities and aspirations through collaboratively designing personalised courses in years 11 - 13. She talks about acceleration in Pasifika student achievement as a result of collaboration to design personalised courses, particularly for gifted students.
Karin Morrison introduces us to the Visible Thinking program, a research-based approach to teaching thinking begun at Harvard's Project Zero. The program develops students' thinking dispositions as well as deepens their understanding of content.
Dr Judy Willis is a board-certified neurologist and teacher from California. In this talk she outlines three key things we can learn as educators from her research into student engagement with video games.
Dr John Edwards is Managing Director of Edwards Explorations, an Australian-based company concerned with exploring and developing human potential. In this talk he challenges us to beware of siren voices and to make sure that rather than taking away a head full of information from professional learning opportunities, that we transfer this information into understanding for our own particular contexts.
Dr Jeanne Shaw discusses her PhD research into the definition of a 'good teacher'. Dr Shaw sourced three groups - policy, teachers, and students - to form a picture of the supposed attributes of a 'good teacher'.
Glenn Capelli's keynote presentation from ULearn12 is structured around learning in layers: philosophy/story, vocabulary/conversation, strategies/tools and the methodology stretch. Glenn provides examples that illustrate each layer, as well as advice and lessons he has learned from his own experiences.
Craig McDowell, Director of leadership, learning and development consultancy Aspire2Lead, talks about his work assisting and developing leadership. Craig was recorded at ELF11, where he was a contributing speaker.
The Minister of Education Hon Hekia Parata addresses 1400 teachers during the opening session of the Learning@School conference in Hamilton on January 26th, 2012.
Andrew Churches, Curriculum Manager for ICT at Kristin School, talks about First Robotics, an international robotics competition where groups of students (electronics, PR, Finance, logistics) work collaboratively to build a robot in only six weeks.
CORE software developer and skateboard instructor Remo Williams talks about his latest project - eXe, a tool that allows teachers to author their own educational content in pedagogically sound ways for a range of purposes.
As HOD Performing Arts at Rutherford College, Manu Fa'aea-Semeatu worked with Pasifika students to realise their full potential, catering for their abilities and aspirations through collaboratively designing personalised courses in years 11 - 13. She talks about acceleration in Pasifika student achievement as a result of collaboration to design personalised courses, particularly for gifted students.
Dr John Edwards is Managing Director of Edwards Explorations, an Australian-based company concerned with exploring and developing human potential. In this talk he challenges us to beware of siren voices and to make sure that rather than taking away a head full of information from professional learning opportunities, that we transfer this information into understanding for our own particular contexts.
Dr Jeanne Shaw discusses her PhD research into the definition of a 'good teacher'. Dr Shaw sourced three groups - policy, teachers, and students - to form a picture of the supposed attributes of a 'good teacher'.
Helen Lewis from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David explains her research into how to make thinking visible for very young children. This innovative research called for early years students to make a video of a friend who is showing 'thinking'.
Dr Kerry Spackman, winner of the 2010 KEA World Class Award for Creative Thinking and author of the number one bestselling book The Winner's Bible, announces his latest venture - A feature length film "Einstein's Compass."
As HOD Performing Arts at Rutherford College, Manu Fa'aea-Semeatu worked with Pasifika students to realise their full potential, catering for their abilities and aspirations through collaboratively designing personalised courses in years 11 - 13. She talks about acceleration in Pasifika student achievement as a result of collaboration to design personalised courses, particularly for gifted students.
Nick Tuitasi presented this keynote speech at the West Auckland Principals' Association conference. Nick spent 25 years with the New Zealand Police and has been honoured several times by government and community organisations for his ground breaking work with youth at risk.
The smart web is the name given to the developing trend to have all electronic devices connected to the internet in order to communicate and send and receive data. Mark Osborne presents the third of CORE Education's 2013 Ten Trends.
Combining user and control means customising the objects around you to enable them to solve your problems, rather than being a passive consumer of goods. Mark Osborne presents the second of CORE Education's 2013 Ten Trends.
In the first of the ten trend series for 2013 Mark Osborne outlines some of the ways educators can personalise learning. As students increasingly bring their own devices to school, teachers have many opportunities to guide students to be more active in their own learning.
CORE Education's IT Manager Glen Davies returns to discuss user control of learning technologies. He points out that while there is an increasing demand in the IT sector for experience in this area, there are increasing concerns about the lack of skilled workers in the IT sector, and a reduction in the number of students deciding to train in related fields.
CORE Education's Derek Wenmoth explores the current and future world of 3D in the penultimate Ten Trend for 2012. From current 3D thinkers, like air traffic controllers and surgeons to the relatively new technology of 3D printing, Derek foresees a growing demand for thinking and conceptualising in 3D for which teachers and students will need to prepare.
Allanah King is a Blended eLearning Facilitator for CORE Education. In this talk she outlines the main reasons why she likes to facilitate learning with iPads.
Annie Agnew was an invited presenter at ULearn12. In this talk Annie describes how she realised we need to listen to the children to identify how they deftly weave their learning experiences.
Richard Knuckey from Queen Margaret College in Wellington discusses e-portfolios. Richard's school uses e-portfolios for collecting and sharing work in three ways: staff professional development; student progress; and as a learning tool.
Rebecca Power from Nayland Primary School describes some of the recent collaborations her school has been involved with. Rebecca challenges us to find ways to collaborate with other schools, other classes, whether that collaboration be big or small.
Pinelopi Zaka tells us about her Masters investigation into how blended teaching and learning is implemented in schools. Her research explored how teachers, students, and school leaders experience educational change with blended approaches.
Jo And Tara feel that the current NZC assessment system is eurocentric, classist, and out of date. In this talk they explain how they have come to this conclusion.
Dave Winter, project director of the connected learning community in Hamilton, talks about three things he considers as important in education today: Strategies to deal with the change that comes with the ultrafast broadband roll out; the digital society; and the connection between teaching as inquiry and professional learning communities.
Anne Kenneally is a 2012 CORE Education eFellow. She tells us about what she learned during her time as an eFellow and how she discovered the strength of letting learners lead the learning.
Paula Eskett is the school library manager at Riccarton High School in Christchurch. Paula is a 2012 CORE Education eFellow and has spent the year investigating increasing student engagement in research and learning through the use of mobile devices.
Helen King from Point England School tells us how encouraging creativity through music, animation, and movies enhanced the learning of her students.
While others were requesting ‘no earthquake talk’ in their centres after the Christchurch earthquakes, the team at the team at the New Brighton Community Preschool and Nursery embraced the experiences associated with the earthquakes as a learning experience.
The uncertainty that exists for families of children attending early childhood education centres in the wake of the Christchurch earthquakes is presenting new challenges in terms of shifting services and starting school. This is the story of one ‘red-zoned’ family’s experience.
This story in the Looking Forward, Looking Back series captures the experience of Little Explorers Preschool, an Early Childhood Education centre located on the edge of a ‘red-zone’ - the Christchurch CBD area that suffered heavy damage in the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes.
North Beach Community Childcare had been operating for 25 years. After the February 22nd Christchurch earthquake it was clear they couldn’t return to their centre. This story explores what happens when temporary becomes long-term.
This video in the Looking Forward, Looking Back series tells the story of Portobelo Preschool, which operated out of the Cranmer Centre in Christchurch and never re-opened following the February 22nd earthquakes.
