If you are organising the learning for your staff, you know that it is near impossible to organise anything that pleases everyone!
Let’s take a step back and look at WHY you are organising profession learning opportunities for your staff…
Spinbackup is an amazing tool that can back up your G Suite data. It also has other great features to help protect your G Suite domain. In this video we run through some of those features.
Have you heard about one page plans, 12 week years, the 4 disciplines of execution, the Rockefeller habits? If you are looking at how to improve efficiency and need a tool or platform to bring your data to life, give visual cues to employees and keep everyone on track to hit your goals, then the results.com platform is exactly what you need.
In this short blog post, we outline some of the professional development events we have planned for New Zealand teachers. We have STEAM / Digital Technologies training, Google Certifications and more. Check out all the details as well as ways you can request expert professional development for your school.
There is a lot of talk in education at the moment about teaching our students about having a growth mindset, about perseverance, and having grit.
Here is what I have noticed about teachers and growth mindset in my teacher training seminars.
When you go to the training centre, and if you just google search Google education training centre, you’ll come up to a page that will look something like this, and you have access to the different certifications here on the left hand side.
There is a lot of talk in education at the moment about teaching our students about having a growth mindset, about perseverance, and having grit.
Here is what I have noticed about teachers and growth mindset in my teacher training seminars.
Technology can both enhance and inhibit the THINKING process of a student. As technology becomes more advanced, students are able to find answers and reach conclusions faster, but is this at the expense learning to think? In this article we examine 3 ways in which technology can dumb down the thinking process, and what we can do to counteract this.
Devices are changing a lot, it’ll be interesting to see. I think, you know, device prices are coming down, that’s a good thing. I think there still needs to be some metric around about how much you spend as to, in where’s the improvement?
In this podcast, Mike, Mark and Adrian debrief after the ISTE conference in San Antonio.
We discuss:
Whether we saw anything innovative
What STEM tools we saw that we liked
How can we reach further into your organisation and equip slow adopters
Tips to get the most out of conferences
And more.
I have been speaking with Blake Seufert from Naavi about the development of this add-on for a while now, and am glad it is now available to schools. If you are using Google Classroom, you will enjoy this ad-on. Blake
Why in schools, do we seem to snuff out this natural enthusiasm? The level of concentration in the eyes of the young people trying to learn new tricks was supported by encouragement and advice from their peers. Natural collaboration, community and culture. The skaters controlled their learning, broke big tricks down into a series of smaller ones and slowly increased the level of “danger” as confidence grew. All controlled by themselves.
