Posts by Keir Leslie
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It’s very unlikely that NCEA pushes students to narrowly target learning to examinations more than School C/Bursary, in as much as they were high stakes one off exams, the classic situation for learning the test, focussing on exam prep and exam technique etc.
And assessment should be integral to learning processes — thinking of it as something [unrelated] that comes after learning is absurd. Students should, ideally, be thinking about how they will be assessed, what the assessments are, what the learning outcomes are. It is part of learning, and learning to learn.
Students face competing demands on time and attention, and if you treat parts of the material as secondary and don’t assess them, of course they will catch on and not care — the solution is improved course design.
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Hard News: Things worth knowing, in reply to Russell Brown,
The whole thing is sleazy as hell, but on the other hand I don't think Adams is close enough to cause a conflict of interest legally. Ethically and politically, of course, it is truly abhorrent.
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CWMS isn't the CPW --- the CWMS enables CPW.
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Hard News: Things worth knowing, in reply to Paul Williams,
No. Ryall has been a very good manager of a pretty decent health system primarily devised under the Clark government. (Roughly speaking, the Shipley government utterly trashed NZ healthcare, Labour bodged it back together, and Ryall's made sure it hasn't fallen apart again.)
But he hasn't really implemented a vision in health --- and in particular, he hasn't confronted the big picture problems in health: aging population, and the need for a shift away from a focus on health-as-hospitals.
Mind you Labour hasn't done that in Opposition either, despite some good signs when Grant Robertson was spokesperson. I think one problem with Health is that it is seen as a scandal portfolio, because between 1990-9 it was. But under Clark it wasn't, and Ryall has just kept it tight.
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Local miners will do the same as many others have done as the world has moved on – find a different type of work that’s viable and valuable, or shift to another place
On yer bike, eh?
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Emma Hart,
Hey, Damien O'Connor's made a career out of that. Fuck him and all, but it's a split that the Greens are quite happy to fall on one side of, and Labour has to bridge.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Emma Hart,
Of course not! And I totally think that the extractive industries are broadly speaking sunset industries. But really, if you live in Westport and you would quite like to get work, being told "you're a dinosaur" by a well-off urban liberal isn't very satisfying.
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You can see why a guy working in a coal mine on the West Coast [or an oil rig in Taranaki, or some other extractive industry] might not find that a super reassuring policy, to be honest.
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Tinakori,
I don’t think that when you’ve graduated from Harvard and have worked for BCG and have thrown it in to become the MP for New Lynn you’re that worried about climbing up the prestige ladder. If anything I’d be trying to downplay my “technocratic master of the universe’ background.
[Edited to add: I mean, should Cunliffe have just said "oh, a college in Boston"?]
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One (very minor) good thing about the floods is that at least it seems to have finally killed off the word "resilience".