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Jul
Jul
EdTech Newsletter – July 2018 Update
Jackie Clark 0 comments EdTech
12
Jun
Jun
Low decile students outperforming higher decile schools
Georgia Taylor 0 comments EdTech, Media Release
A cluster of low decile Northland schools is on track to outperform many higher decile schools around New Zealand through digital learning.
Students in the Te Puawai cluster – which includes Manaia View School, Whau Valley Primary, Te Kura o Otangarei, Whangarei Intermediate, Tikipunga High School and Hikurangi Primary School – are making faster progress in learning than the average New Zealand school, according to a report by the University of Auckland’s Woolf Fisher Research Centre.
07
Jun
Jun
Teachers need to be better paid for the tech revolution
Georgia Taylor 0 comments EdTech, FinTech, NZTech News
Teachers need to be better paid as they adjust to educating kids in the fastest growing sector in New Zealand, – technology, an award-winning Maori chief executive of a fast growing ed-tech company says.
Kendall Flutey, who runs Christchurch company Banqer, says one of her main concerns facing education and schools dealing with technology is that teachers are underpaid and overworked.
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May
May
EdTechNZ Newsletter – May 2018 Update
Jackie Clark 0 comments EdTech
07
Nov
Nov
Big future in little cousin of education exports – edtech
Chantal Thomas 0 comments EdTech, Media Release, NZTech News
27
Sep
Sep
Universities important but many skills can be learned on the job
Jackie Clark 0 comments Media Release, NZTech News
If New Zealand raises its education outcomes over a period of 20 years to a level comparable with Finland, it can generate a 204 percent increase in GDP worth an additional $US258 billion, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says.
Technology is driving changes in the way Kiwis work and the skills required for work, he says.
28
Aug
Aug
NZ needs to invest in promoting tech now, as it has been for years with education and tourism
Chantal Thomas 0 comments FinTech, Media Release, NZTech News
It’s time New Zealand seriously started to invest in promoting technology, the country’s third largest export industry and fastest growing sector of our economy, a leading New Zealand tech businessman says.
04
Aug
Aug
Breaking stereotypes essential to inspire girls into tech
Chantal Thomas 0 comments Media Release, NZTech Women
This morning on TVNZ’s Breakfast show, NZTech’s Andrea Hancox discussed busting tech stereotypes. Watch the interview here.
05
Oct
Oct
Rotorua – The future of New Zealand’s success rests largely on the importance of how school children manage technology today, one of New Zealand’s leading tech experts says.
Graeme Muller, chief executive of NZTech, the voice of the tech sector in New Zealand, told the New Zealand ULearn education conference in Rotorua today that New Zealand has to focus on making today’s children creators rather than users.
11
Aug
Aug
Leading for 21st Century Learning
Jackie Clark 0 comments EdTech, NZTech News
As announced by Education Minister Hekia Parata at the NZTech Advance Education Technology Summit in Auckland last month, digital technology is to be formally integrated into the New Zealand curriculum. The follow up announcement from the Minister of an immediate $1 million investment in initiatives to help schools engage their students in digital technologies sends a strong message of commitment.
