07 December 2020
As the year comes to a close, this is always a good time to reflect, as well as an opportunity to look forward.
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09 November 2020
EdTechNZ has just completed our second annual election of our Executive Council. Congratulations go out to returning council members: Annabel Robertson from Education New Zealand, David Glover from Unitec, Shane Kerr from Shane Kerr Consulting and Truman Pham from The Mind Lab. We’d also like to welcome Matthew McCulloch from AWS – it’s great to have you as part of the team Matthew. We do have … Continue reading "What will we learn from AI educating us?"
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23 September 2020
EdTechNZ’s Annual Meeting is upon us in October which means that it’s also election time for our Executive Council.
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05 August 2020
Last week was Techweek2020, and I ran a series of EdTech showcases, interviewing NZ Education Technology companies.
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A new year and a new decade always presents the opportunity to look at things through a different lens and rethink our future. Here at EdTechNZ, we think now is that time for us. As part of this, it’s timely to remind our members that you will get out of your membership, what you put in. Graem
February 26, 2020
Ngā mihi readers, Thanks to some great work from David Glover, three EdTechNZ Executive Council members met with the Productivity Commission earlier this month to discuss their current inquiry into technological change and the future of work. The EdTechNZ Digital Skills
November 26, 2019
Nga mihi, The New Zealand Productivity Commission has released their first draft report New Zealand, technology and productivity which EdTechNZ made our own submission to earlier this year. David Glover, a member of the EdTechNZ Executive Council, had this to say:&nbs
October 22, 2019
Pauline Cleaver Pauline Cleaver - Associate Deputy Secretary of Early Learning Student Achievement at the Ministry of Education – outlines how New Zealand education is adapting for the digital world. In what’s being called the Fourth Industrial Revolution - the impact of automation on fu
October 16, 2019
Nga mihi readers, Spring is the season of new beginnings and so it is for EdTechNZ too. Last week at our Annual Meeting we announced EdTechNZ’s new Executive Council (EC), which is a blend of some of the old team alongside a diverse group of newly elected council members. Five of the c
September 25, 2019
Kia ora Readers, I am excited that EdTechNZ’s first working group, the Digital Skills Working Group, is officially up and running and we are now working with external stakeholders to further our objectives. The primary purpose of the working group is to help solve the digital skills gap by de
July 24, 2019
Ngā mihi reader, It has been a busy three weeks with four diversity and inclusion events, the last of which is tonight in Christchurch. EdTechNZ has collaborated with TechWomen to take the topic of diversity on the road. I want to acknowledge Eva Sherwood for cura
June 25, 2019
A prominent Kiwi businessman has set up New Zealand’s first ever enviro-tech camp at Raglan, south of Auckland. Vaughan Fergusson, founder of New Zealand’s high-growth tech success story Vend and founder of OMGTech!, has rebooted an outdoor education camp to help steer kids into tech careers
June 18, 2019
Auckland – The New Zealand education system needs a serious shake up to deal with the velocity in which technology is changing the working world, EdTechNZ has said in a submission to the Productivity Commission. The commission has launched an inquiry into the impact of tech on the fu
June 9, 2019