Deeper Learning 2023 - My big takeaways
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As Deeper Learning 2023 comes to a close it's important to reflect on the key takeaways. As with every conference it delivered a mixture of new learning and affirmations for what we already do. Below is what I have taken away after three full-on days of listening and learning as much as I can. 1) New Zealand is already doing amazing things So often I feel like we look overseas, whether it is Singapore, Finland or the USA we tend to think that others are somehow ahead of us. Well, I can assure you this isn't the case. We have an incredibly flexible education system (at least we do at the moment), we have a national curriculum that calls for localisation and personalisation, and we have a flexible assessment framework (at least we do at present) that allows us to meet the needs of individual learners and when I think of the learning we deliver at both Hobsonville Point Secondary School and Albany Senior High School, we are already doing what many of the schools in the USA aspire