Category Archives: teaching
GetGame: Fostering collaborative learning in a gameful context
Workshop notes Presented by Bron Stuckey Link to collaborative notes and collaborative slides Examples of games: Anatomy Arcade Breakout EDU Resource Wars: A game involving maths (geometry & money), relationships, fine motor skills, economics and nuclear annihilation. EPIC Academy: teacher gamified … Continue reading
Keynote by Eric Mazur-Innovating education to educate innovators
Lecturing hasn’t changed much in hundreds of years. Transmission. Delivering information. But knowledge is something that has to be constructed in the brains of the learners. The process of learning: Transfer of information (in class) Assimilation of the information (out … Continue reading
CLA Leading Change workshop
When it rains, it pours for PL in Tauranga. This is the second session this week put on by CORE education. Hosted at Tahatai Coast School, we started being welcomed at a brief powhiri by a group of students (I managed … Continue reading
CORE Digitech Roadshow
CORE Eduction were hosting a free day with a focus on the draft Digital Technology curriculum. Hosted at the new ACG Tauranga, the day began with a keynote by Mike Walmsley of Code Avengers. Mike again reinforced the potential of the … Continue reading
Keynote – Richard Wells
Some takeout from Richard Well’s day 2 keynote. You don’t see the rugby coach on the field, opposite in the classroom. Playground games – kids don’t need a teacher to play. They know the strategies. Oblique strategies – by Brian … Continue reading
