Richard Wells. M.Ed.
@EduWells
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Author of https://t.co/rMuunpadde, Dep. Principal NZ High School, Teacher, International Speaker, EdChatNZ Moderator, Top100 Education Blogger, EdTech, #Skate
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined September 2011
Q: Best country for #FutureReady education? .A: #NewZealand .Q: Who said that? .A: @TheEconomist .Q: How did #NZ do it?.A: [Now a Free book]
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Unsubscribed from my favourite podcasts, @RestIsPolitics and @TheNewsAgents for 4 years. Daily Trump news is not good for the mind. I’ll just use @haveigotnews and @StephenAtHome for the funny takes.
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#Learning is easy and engaging. #Education makes it hard. Here's how I turned the 'worst' #students into the best learners without gimmicks. #EdChat #ArtEd #Mastery.
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This year, I’ve run an experiment with mastery learning rather than running a programme of unit/topic learning. It has been life changing for both myself and my students. This year, I was ask…
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Teaching and Learning is so much easier when you step off the treadmill and start actual learning. Here's my post on my experiment this year. How I engaged learners without gimmicks:. #Teaching #Mastery #ArtEd #Learning #EdChat.
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This year, I’ve run an experiment with mastery learning rather than running a programme of unit/topic learning. It has been life changing for both myself and my students. This year, I was ask…
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Will Education ever reach its Tipping point?.Ideas to help us step out of our dark historical habits. #edChat #education #History #Exams #Eugenics #Racism.
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For more than 500 years, western culture has fallen into many major problems due to its sense of exceptionalism and thus routine lack of reflection. Western human habits continue to prove contradic…
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Hey #Teacher, . busy?.#Schools are so busy moving forward onto new topics etc. #Learning requires much more looking back.
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True learning is a slow contemplatory process and yet schools are ‘busy’ places with little time for teachers or students to contemplate. We are too busy being industrial and efficient,…
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Look what I just found. Impressive that @willrich45 was writing about Podcasts in 2006, 15 years before they took over the world 😄
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After a decade of conservative, exam-focused education….“The UK has a problem with #math”.And #learningdesign is the solution, not streaming. FT Film ..#MathEd #Mathematics #MathsEd.
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A new fav episode of @teb_logan's podcast. Your Brain is not a Computer! - Ecological Dynamics in Education. It covers nearly all my fav pedagogical topics in 1 hour. #edChat #edChatNZ .
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RT @IntrepidEdNews: One way to achieve consistency between a group of teachers is to jointly create a group of learning activities using th….
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How one teaches often feels like a very personal thing.
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Why does a UK footballer understand #assessment more than so many teachers? .#EDchat #Learning #EdChatNZ.
Gary Neville: "I have a different belief around exams. I don't believe you should work for 16 years at school & college & then it all depends on a 2 hour assessment. I think that's prehistoric. it needs ripping up & you should be judged over your body of work.". #BBCBreakfast
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Fantastic to catch up in New Zealand with my fellow Australasian - the great @MRsalakas. We last met presenting on the same stage in Austin! Cc: @mrhooker 😄🎉.Buy Brett’s book - A Mammoth Lesson. #edChatNZ #EdChat
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