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Many thanks to our contributors for this edition: Cheryl has a doctorate in education with
a particular focus on leadership, change
management, futures thinking,
z Dr Cheryl Doig >> click for bio
information technology and innovation.
z Dr Vicki Compton >> click for bio
z Bruce McIntyre >> click for bio
z Vincent Heeringa >> click for bio Cheryl is a trained facilitator in the use of
z Andrew Hamilton >> click for bio Hermann’s Brain Dominance Instrument.
She is the founding director of Think
Beyond Limited.
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Dr Vicki Compton
is a research director with UniServices at
Dr Cheryl Doig the University of Auckland. She has
I think the new curriculum has potential to do this if schools focus on using the new been involved with technology education
key competencies. These encourage students to manage self, work together, think, in New Zealand from its early
participate and contribute and become multi-literate. The heart of this is to get these development, being involved in the
ideas into secondary schools – they are lagging behind. The education system also development of the draft 1993
needs to be flexible so it can change to meet individual needs and community technology curriculum, the final 1995
circumstances. There shouldn’t be a one size fits all education system. If you want document and more currently the
well-rounded individuals you need to involve parents and community. In terms of the revised 2007 technology curriculum.
future we also need to be up with the play in terms of ICTs. They have a powerful
role in changing what life long education is all about. Gaming is just one example of Bruce McIntyre
this growth. See the websites/blogs below for examples pulled out of University and founded
www.secondaryfutures.co.nz Macpac at age 19. Macpac has been a
www.ted.com and look at Ted Robinson’s video business model much studied for its
www.goodworkproject.org product innovation, international success
http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/ and cultural innovation.
Preparation for such a role rests upon a broad multiple literacy that rests upon
He is currently leading the development
philosophical understandings of disciplines such as technology, science and the
of a new school, which is intended to
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arts, and understandings of the foundational knowledge and practices associated serve as a model of education for the
with these disciplines. Preparing students of today for what is an unknown future future. Its three major principles are:
must inherently include the development of the capability to work with incomplete whole person development, full
and fast changing knowledge where uncertainty is viewed as an opportunity for engagement learning and re-connection
making informed decisions that acknowledge complexity without being with nature.
overwhelmed by it.
“The world is in a race between
The skill sets required for good citizenship are no different to those required to be education and catastrophe”
fully participatory members of any workforce. Both rest upon being able to critically Buckminster-Fuller
reflect on ‘what is’ and work towards ‘making things better’ – whether this be in
terms of a better life, a better service, or a better product. The development of both Vincent Heeringa
practical and functional reasoning is key to decision making about the feasibility of
taught maths and sciences at secondary
courses of actions, based both on what is ‘desirable’ and what is ‘possible’.
school before becoming a journalist and
publisher. He was founding Editor of
Lifelong learners are therefore not so much created by education, but should be
Unlimited and a founder of Idealog. He
enabled by it. Learning is a natural state of the human condition. Education must
hopes to return to teaching one day
ensure that it does not shut this down through contrived contexts, constricted
when he has something worth sharing.
opportunities or the lack of access to foundational knowledge and practices as
outlined above.
Andrew Hamilton
In terms of school sets that build good citizens worldliness would be a good start – Personas help all of the teams across the
and the community engagement. But you know we don’t want all chiefs and no company gain intimate knowledge about
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