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Technology
OK computer: to prevent students cheating with AI text-generators, we should bring them into the classroom
If we teach students to write things a computer can, then we’re training them for jobs a computer can do,…
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News
How a year of trying to buy nothing made me a smarter shopper and a better teacher
It started as a New Year’s resolution driven by guilt and a touch of sibling rivalry – but by the…
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Industry Voices
Education workforce: What does NZ need?
What about the valuable pool of older, talented teachers who could be encouraged to return but have been put off…
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Administration
Where is the funding for support staff pay rise?
Schools are anxious about how they can afford the new rates and have called on the Ministry of Education to…
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Teachers' Desk
Teacher-led research set to improve learner outcomes with $1.7 million
Projects explore mana as a wellbeing contributor, investigate the Digital Technologies curriculum, enhance Māori engagement through pedagogy, explore the relationship…
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Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom
Why Aotearoa’s teachers need to get out more
Out-of-classroom learning has been known to induce arrythmia in the most laid-back of educators.
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News
Get your gym flooring into shape
Educators recognise that physical activity in childhood extends well beyond the physical realm.
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Education
Op-Ed: How LGBT+ students can thrive at school
Bullying, and the stress it produces, is linked to the overall higher rates of mental health issues
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Education
Bill has biggest education changes in decades, says Gov
NZers want a learner-focused, high-quality, culturally responsive, and inclusive education system. The Bill turns many of their ideas for the…
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Administration
School support staff to consider new collective agreement
School support staff who are members of NZEI Te Riu Roa will vote on a new collective agreement offer from…
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Education
Voices from the Pacific – Lost in translation
What role as educators do we have in acknowledging the culture of our learners?
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Education
Why Facebook belongs in the math classroom
Most students I encounter have never studied graph theory; it’s rare for it to appear in high school or a…
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Administration
Celebrating men in teaching
For every three female school teachers, there’s only one male teacher, and less than 5 percent of early childhood teachers…
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Property
Cutting edge technology preps for life
Amid a huge technological shakeup, NZ schools are responding to the world’s rapidly changing workforce landscape.
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Industry Voices
Case study: Acoustic treatments for Westmount School MLE
Westmount School refurbished its Kaipara campus to include a new learning centre designed around modern learning and flexible learning spaces.
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Education
Zero budget gamification of online learning
I suggest that gamification is not only about points, leaderboards, and badges. It may simply be about the language we…
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Education
New Zealand history: what stories should we be telling?
With New Zealand history becoming compulsory in high schools by 2022, which stories will make the grade, and from whose…
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News
Case study: Cutting technology at Auroa School
“Our DPE program is based around the concept of reverse engineering, where we provide students with a variety of projects…
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Education
Recognising authentic context in digital technologies
Earlier this year while wandering through the toy aisle at a store an item caught my attention. The toy, reacted…
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News
Why it’s important to teach the teachers
The government has long championed the idea of shaping teacher development to ensure it benefits students across priority learning areas...
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Education
More work needed on workload to fix teacher shortage
There is still likely to be a shortfall of 1,020 teachers in 2020
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Education
Appreciative inquiry: Searching for the best in people
The cycle of appreciative inquiry supports the individual/team/organisation to discover what strengths, talents and positives already exist and build upon…
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Education
The problem with Snow White, and what Scandinavia can teach us about it
How Scandinavian schools normalised gender neutral education for its children...
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News
School board sentenced after teacher & student injured on scaffold
“With no safe systems in place students and staff were exposed to a very real risk of injury and this…
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Education
Free workshops teach financial literacy to students
Class visits from banks left students disengaged because of how irrelevant the content was to their lifestyle: students teach students…
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