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Games for learning research project update #2

Are you a "game-curious" teacher?

In this update we discuss our first games for learning project meet-and-greet with around a dozen game-curious primary, intermediate, and secondary teachers in Wellington. Finding game-curious teachers who want to work with us is an essential first step towards finding interesting and powerful questions to pursue in the next stages of our research process.

Are you a "game-curious" teacher?

In October we convened our first games for learning project meet-and-greet with around a dozen game-curious primary, intermediate, and secondary teachers in Wellington.

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Building Research Capability
Key Competencies
Student engagement
Project: 
Games for Learning
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What improves learning?

How can subject data be used to develop new pedagogies to improve learning?

This blog post from our education adviser explores gathering data for teacher inquiry to improve learning.

Improving learning means improving teaching - how can you use the data you gather for a teaching inquiry to improve teaching?  After all, even though you may have a lot of teaching going on in your school, education is about learning and if there is no learning going on then there is no education.

Over the past two months I’ve begun my workshops with schools by asking three questions.

1:  What improves learning?

Everyone has a different list - principals, AP/DPs, teachers.

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Building Research Capability
Implementing New Zealand Curriculum
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Teaching and Educational Research in New Zealand: Directions, dilemmas, and dangers

Author(s): 
Noeline Alcorn
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Journal article
Building Research Capability
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The last few years have seen a burgeoning of official interest in educational research as the Ministry of Education espouses evidence-based policy making and teaching. A number of best evidence syntheses have been commissioned and published. These are encouraging trends even if the definition of best evidence is sometimes narrower than some of us would wish. At the same time the research imperative for academics across the country has sharpened following the Tertiary Education Commission’s research assessment exercise the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF).

Noeline Alcorn
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set 2005: no. 1
publisher: 
NZCER Press
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Noeline Alcorn
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