Week 4/5?: What is good education?

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What does good education require? What are NCEA requirements? Talk about UDL

What doesn't NCEA have that means it doesn't meet the requirements of good education- how can I design to fill/ bridge this gap?

Example/ prototype?




TED Talk by Sir Ken Robinson: “How to escape education’s Death Valley.” 


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