martyn knapton

Current situation #lockdown #OmicronVariant

@TraceyTait1 @Sabe376 Crazy isn't it!

Depressing looking at the property market. Just looked at a normal 2000s built 3 bedroom house in whangarei for well over a million dollars 🤯🤯🤯

This sh*t is happening everywhere. World needs to act….yesterday.

BREAKING: New Zealand has paused the travel bubble with Western Australia. The state goes into a three-day lockdown at midnight after a man tested positive for Covid-19 days after leaving managed isolation. rnz.co.nz/news/world/441…

@andrew_murray33 Yes. What a year!

@buildmearocket Hope your first year went well.

My thoughts as we relocate this week.

@andrew_murray33 Good luck Andrew on the next stage of your life in education. Have a great holiday and Christmas 🎄 The K's xxxx

Looking forward to the next step now. I thank the community of Manawa Tapu for walking with me for the last 10 years. #edchatnz

@andrew_murray33 Well done Andrew!

Delighted and excited to be moving back to Wellington in 2021 as principal of St. Mary’s College.

@andrew_murray33 @Dianne_Khan Whats that Mr Murray?

@buildmearocket @Dianne_Khan We are going with Ako@home@on a Wednesday for Year 13 next term.

Sure, but where will I seat 26 students?

Unfortunately Michael we live in a world where people would rather watch clips of idiots driving cars like maniacs into berks, than a book that’s been described as, Lovely Stuff. Not my words Michael, the words of Shaking Stevens.

@creativecatjk @TimWilsonMP Rightfully there is concern about the recent guidelines that say students have lower infection rates and they don't tend to pass the virus onto adults. Marist community would say differently?

This is completely unacceptable and unAustralian.

Nicola: Please fold the washing Me: PM says this is no time to be taking up new activities

@tintinskywalker @learn_nservices Thank for that whakaaro about tangata whenua and manuhiri. I used that with my staff today. It helped frame the thinking for our staff about working with and alongside our community.

One hour into distance learning....no-one is knocking on the office door... I love it when a plan comes together! Kia Kaha WHS!

The wellness of children, whanau and teachers paramount.

@Dianne_Khan Yes, it's really hard. A focus on well being right now but a opportunity to use this as a learning opportunity as educators to re-evaluate what we need to start valuing. Lockdown has highlighted digital inequity and an inequity in dispositions that support success in this space.

@buildmearocket Life is one long learning context, but there are still ways to do it badly, and throwing lots of new things at kids when they potentially lack support and are under stress is poor pedagogy to say the least

Am I the only teacher that is slightly dismayed at the number of webinars and workshops being thrown at us? And all the new apps being proposed? Surely this is not the time to be teaching kids new apps and what not unless absolutely necessary?

@Dianne_Khan Yup, ability to select the tools that are important and to be critical in that process is a skill students need. The spaces we give to teach these in schools is minimal which means many students are unprepared for high levels of agency and self-management.

@maurieabraham @DisruptEDNZ @edchatNZ Time for a conversation about what we really need to equip our young people with for success in 21st Century.

Amongst all this discussion about what it means for schooling the one thing I'm missing from the convo is how universities are going to reimagine 'selection' criteria. Surely they don't want to be left behind @DisruptEDNZ @edchatNZ