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Read rest of post: The knotty issue of assigning curriculum levels to assessment results
Date posted: 21 September 2016
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By Rose Hipkins
Read rest of post: Making progress in evidence-based reasoning: what part do contexts play?
Date posted: 16 September 2016
By Rachel Bolstad
Not all Games for learning teachers started out as gamers. Today we're going to look at another trajectory followed by some of the game-using teachers in our study: The play-based learning advocates.
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 3
Date posted: 15 September 2016
By Rachel Bolstad
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 2
Date posted: 12 September 2016
When I reflect on educational aims at the school level, I think of the key competencies in the curriculum (Ministry of Education, 2007).
Read rest of post: Argumentation: another candidate for measuring progress?
Date posted: 8 September 2016
By Rachel Bolstad
Read rest of post: What motivates game-using teachers? Episode 1
Date posted: 2 September 2016
By Elliot Lawes
Meet Bob. Bob is a floating eyeball with a hard luck story he's dying to tell you. Are you willing to listen?
Read rest of post: Meet Bob
Date posted: 29 August 2016
Thank you for coming back to our science blog. You get a tag-team handover this week - I am Rose Hipkins and I’m picking up from my colleague Ally Bull. My plan is to build on her thoughts and questions while turning the focus to an issue that I know is worrying a lot of teachers right now.
Read rest of post: What do we mean when we ask if students are "making progress" in science?
Date posted: 24 August 2016
This is the focus of A Nation of Curious Minds: He Whenua Hihiri i te Mahara – the national strategic plan for science in society. So to what extent does science learning at school support this goal? Before we can answer that we need to be clear about what supports the development of innovators.
Read rest of post: Building creativity, innovation and increased critical science literacy
Date posted: 12 August 2016