SMATA

24/09/2021

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Autonomous and controlled motivation: what's the difference?

02/09/2021

"Reading is far more than getting information from printed records. It is the active encounter of one mind and one imagination with another." Meek, 1982

Moving beyond a transactional approach to reading

01/09/2021

Cooperation: you do ..., so I can ...
Collaboration: we could ..., so this might ...

It’s a significantly different way of plotting 'what next'

https://smata.substack.com/p/collaboration
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The relational dance of transcendence and growth

31/08/2021

Is education a transaction or something all-encompassing?

It depends on the kind of relationships you have.

Read more in this week's free post @ The SMATA Bulletin.



https://smata.substack.com/p/instrumental-or-dialogic

30/08/2021

"you need to be an active observer. Someone who knows what they’re looking for, has the patience to look and listen for it, and the instinct for when to inject themselves to hone the learning."

Teaching as a performance inhibits student initiative

27/08/2021

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Which kind of learning relationships are needed for today's world?

16/08/2021

This week's Bulletin is inspired by the work of .
Teachers: don't stop at adding in books by Maori authors. You've got to be brave and address the culture of learning if the inequities in education are going to be addressed.

To address colonisation in education, it's pedagogy that needs to shift

11/08/2021

I have great news: use of the SMATA app is now FREE, forever.

Why?
Well, when I had the idea for SMATA, I wanted it to be a tool for teachers that helped them maximise the impact they had on student learning. And it is. Teachers are finding it a powerful tool that is supporting them to see students in new ways, ways that is helping them respond to student potential.

But what I've realised is that, because teachers don't have control of the budget, money is a barrier to them adopting it. Money is getting in the way. So, I have decided to make it free.

It's weird. What is overtly a really bad business decision feels really good. It sits better with me and why I built it in the first place. I guess you could say it's more aligned with my why.

How can you help me?
- Spread the word about the impact SMATA is having on your practice.
- Tell people SMATA app is now free, no obligations or strings attached.
- Share this post.

But what about money?
There is still a subscription option for SMATA - the web portal that offers leaders learning analytic data drawn from observations made in the SMATA app. Over the next few months this is going to be made more powerful, enabling finer grained data analysis, and adding in sharing capabilities. So, if you are finding value in the app, a subscription will be a good next step for your school and will help support the continued development of SMATA.

And if you are interested in talking about how I can help you or your school develop your capability to foster learner agency, please message me to discuss my consultancy services. At the moment, that's how I'm paying the bills!

Thanks everyone.
Let's make learning awesome, one block at a time.
Bevan.

09/08/2021

In this week's Smata Bulletin:
Get Real with Fantasy | The power of 'as if' worlds, according to Confucius.

https://bit.ly/3jHg60y

04/08/2021

When a teacher says SMATA is the tool that's had the biggest impact on their practice, we love it, and we know why.

It's because SMATA keeps the data where it should be, which is flowing in a cycle between the teacher and the student.

SMATA is free for teachers. Get started now.

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