University of Auckland profiles MDTA

The University of Auckland have recently profiled the 2014-2015 MDTA graduating beginning teachers on their website. This marked the occasion of their graduation from the digital immersion programme which was hosted at the Google Offices in Auckland. 

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Greg's Buddy Experience - Spark Foundation Blog

In a recent post on the Spark Foundation Blog, Greg Best was interviewed about his experience as a buddy this year for Robyn Anderson (one of 2015's Manaiakalani Innovative Teachers) at Panmure Bridge School.

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iNACOL Award

Russell Burt, principal of Pt England School and Convenor for the Manaiakalani cluster is honoured to have recently received the Innovative Blended and Online Learning Practice Award from iNACOL on behalf of Manaiakalani.

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Radio New Zealand focus on Maori Education

Manaiakalani has been featured in an article for the Radio New Zealand News website. The piece features quotes from Manaiakalani Cluster school principals: Russell Burt, Rhonda Kelly and Gael Vickers.

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Manaiakalani Success Story - Hapara

Our friends at Hapara have released a case study on Manaiakalani and the way we use digital teaching.

"Manaiakalani schools infuse training in self-awareness and self-regulation into the experience of their children. By using progressions, self assessment, and teacher feedback/feedforward, students are able to know exactly what they have learned, assess how well they have done, and understand what they need to learn next."

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World-Class Auckland: Dramatic learning aid leads the way nationwide - NZ Herald

As part of a series on World-Class Auckland, Manaiakalani Education Trust Chair, Pat Snedden, speaks to the NZ Herald about Manaiakalani.

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Our new workforce

Manaiakalani has been mentioned in an article on Futureintech.co.nz.

"One initiative that’s addressing this problem is the Maniakalani (‘the hook from heaven’) project, which operates in 12 schools in Tamaki’s low socio-economic communities. It provides the predominantly Maori and Pasifika students with access to digital technology at school and at home via a subsidised rent-to-own scheme for netbooks, and supports more digital approaches to teaching and learning. He described how Pt England Primary School has even formed a partnership with an overseas software development company that involves students doing user testing and writing reports as part of their classroom activities."

 “They’re creative, smart, hardworking and brown. They will be our new workforce.”

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