Visual Communication Research 2019

I've summarised key findings into what I believe needs to change in order to 'fix' the current education system in NZ: Societal and ministry attitudes towards 'higher education'. Societal attitudes to how we see different talents/ skills/ aptitudes. Student attitudes towards school. Education -> workforce navigation. How classes are divided (learning styles) Subject prejudice (STEM). Testing methods + purpose. Legislative change of curriculum. Recognition and support for teachers.

Contact info with Ed Strafford: Notes from conversation + context of event On Thursday I went to the NZ GovTech Hub launch party at Creative HQ, there I had the good fortune to bump into Ed Strafford from the Ministry of Education. We had a great chat about how entrepreneurs can fit into the education space. Ed was an excellent connection to make. I also passed on some details from my peers also working with projects in education, and he's been able to link them up with colleagues from his network too. I plan to keep in touch, and will be having another quick chat with Ed next week.

Robinson, Sir Ken. “Bring on the Revolution.” Ideas Worth Spreading, TED, Feb. 2010. https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revolution#t-1058205

The National Certificate of Educational Achievement, or NCEA, is the current system of educational assessment in New Zealand, although some schools teach alternate assessment programs. A Teacher's Perspective: "NCEA is a failed experiment. It is meant to be a standards-based assessment, but the standards are norm-referenced so that if the teachers do a better job, the pass rates do not change." "I know of one standard in mathematics where a skill that was excellence in the first year, is now an achieved skill." "The standards themselves are poorly written. There is not enough detail in the standards for a teacher to know exactly what skills are required for each level of achievement, and so there can be up to five other documents that have to be read, in conjunction with standard, to provide the necessary clarity." "While the external assessments are consistent throughout the country, the internal assessments have almost no National S...

In  education , student  engagement  refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are  learning  or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their  education . - Source (Source) Cognitive   engagement is difficult to measure but it aims to look at "something that goes on in young people’s heads". The paper describes that cognitively-engaged students concentrate, focus on achieving goals, are flexible and cope with failure. Behavioural   engagement ensures that students are physically ready and willing to learn. It is the most frequent style of reported engagement, however it tends to be used to comment on students’ negative behaviours only. Emotional  engagement refers to the relationships between student and their teachers, classmates and the school. As results from the Te Kotahitanga research show this can be particularly i...

Web Source Article Roberts, Yvonne. “How do we make our schools fit to face the 21st century?” The Guardian, 4 Sept. 2011. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/sep/04/how-do-we-make-schools-fit-for-children "Education in New Zealand.”  Wikipedia,  22 Feb. 2019,  Education in New Zealand -  Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_New_Zealand “A creative education system brings it’s own problems” The Observer, The Guardian, 11 Sept. 2011. https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2011/sep/11/letters-creativity-in-schools Schien, Michael. “The Next Revolution in Education: Design Thinking.” Forbes. 8 Jan. 2019.   https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelschein/2019/01/08/the-next-revolution-in-education-design-thinking/#9814e5f61c65 Astle, Julian. “Do Schools Really “Kill Creativity”?” RSA. 25 Apr. 2018. https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2018/04/do-schools-kill-creativity Abraham, Maurie. “Learning design...