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Matauranga Maori: Why acquiring knowledge is not enough
We need to shift away from the traditional epistemology of knowledge to a new way of doing and being.
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- Apr 21, 2021
- 5 min
Let's be scientists: The case to rethink education
In the search for best practice, we need to reconsider our assumptions, re-evaluate our opinions and rethink our answers.
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- Mar 4, 2021
- 3 min
Teaching in the Sandbox
Imagine if learners were given the freedom to explore, interact with and even modify their learning.
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- Jun 1, 2020
- 4 min
Subject to your disapproval - A call for authentic learning
We need to liberate our pedagogy. When we do, we will see more creative, reinvigorated, and equitable practice.
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- Feb 13, 2020
- 3 min
Noise versus Music – How to make your classroom sing
A classroom where we give students space to express through both the silence and the sound is the one that will learn.
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- Jan 16, 2020
- 4 min
Students: Consumers or Creators?
What we need are critical consumers and impassioned creators.
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- Dec 13, 2019
- 4 min
Reflecting our students – The need to hold up the Mirror
We espouse that we don’t want students learning in a framework defined by individualism and competition, so let’s stop teaching in one.
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- Nov 16, 2019
- 5 min
What you say matters – exposing rhetoric and the rise of TeacherSpeak
We need to find a way to reclaim TeacherSpeak and reframe jargon through both critique and the discovery of meaning.
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- Nov 10, 2019
- 3 min
What you say matters – reclaiming ‘alternative facts’
If “the limits of our language mean the limits of our world”, then we must reshape our language in order to reshape our world.
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- Nov 5, 2019
- 3 min
Defining Identity: moving beyond Us and Them
The educator’s role, like the political leaders, is to somehow unite disparate identities under a common vision.
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- Oct 17, 2019
- 3 min
Children should be seen and heard – The need for passionate listening
“Our need to focus on global issues has coincided with the opportunity for young people’s voices to be heard.” – Shay Wright, Ulearn19.
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- Sep 21, 2019
- 4 min
Teaching as a moral craft – The hand, head and heart.
All of the strategies in the world are useless if you do not truly know the young people whose learning you have been entrusted with.
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