Connecting Learners

As mentioned in an earlier post, we are taking a slightly different approach to our Scholarship Mentoring programme this year. We have introduced a second tier of mentoring that involves connecting students through online subject communities. These largely sit as a focal point for learning in their own right, rather than as an addition to […]

2014 Review: Business and Finance

This time last year, OtagoNet, CantaNet and SILC began the process of forming NetNZ. A lot has happened in a year so it would be worth staking stock and reflecting on where we are at. This is part one in a review of our first year. Our organisational model is now firmly in place and […]

Future Focused Practice: Knowledge Building

Knowledge Building: Why? For the past three years I have been part of a project on knowledge building – an emerging approach to learning in a 21st century context. I don’t often use that term, but the reality is there are complex problems modern society faces, and children coming through the education system need to […]

Why Communities of Schools?

Why develop communities of schools? Benefits to the learner Broad subject choice and greater personalisation of learning as a result Flexibility. Students are not confined to a classroom for a certain number of hours on a given day, they can approach their coursework with flexibility Fewer timetabling constraints on subject choice Working with new people. […]