Aaron Vercoe

Self confessed sports loving, technology geek often prone to rants. Passionate about education, equality and our environment.

[Aaron Vercoe @AaronVercoe]

Great not-for-profit idea. Support your local businesses by buying a voucher now to redeem later. Help keep them afloat and keep their staff afloat during lockdown. Blenheim businesses get onboard! https://t.co/sr3nG1VJN3

[Aaron Vercoe @AaronVercoe]

Covid 19 response... "what government can accomplish (and quickly!) when it realises it must act boldly or risk being seen as fundamentally illegitimate."

Imagine if this could be achieved for all injustice and emergency?
https://t.co/3EhkCtlZo0

[Aaron Vercoe @AaronVercoe]

NZ 'media', here's an idea. Let's stop deficit theorising about the difficulty of isolating. Turn it around and look at the opportunities of spending time with our whanau. It's really not that hard. #COVID19nz

[Peter FitzSimons @Peter_Fitz]

Love this, sent by a mate:

"Your parents were called on to fight world wars, you are being called on to wash your hands and sit on the couch. Don’t fuck this up."

[Aaron Vercoe @AaronVercoe]

@AJEnglish https://t.co/aE19QY4R3y

[Ian Jukes @ijukes]

The primary purpose of school...

[Amanda @Pandamoanimum]

I added Aerosmith ft. Run DMC to this video of the shadow of a millipede walking and it has amused me more than it should have done.

[Aaron Vercoe @AaronVercoe]

@Caring_Atheist @greggslatts Game set match. Gervais

[Aaron Vercoe @AaronVercoe]

@ShayneCurrieNZH @FlyAirNZ @nzherald @smh @AllBlacks @qantaswallabies @greggslatts Amazing. Enough to make me buy a paper this morning. I don't know how I am going to fill in the hours until 7.35.

[Kristin Wiens @kwiens62]

It was great to meet in Victoria, @sylviaduckworth. 😊
Thanks for promoting #GrowthMindset and #VisualThinking. 💚
#SketchNoteFever

[David J C Morris @DavidJCMorris]

The shift we are seeing now as our organisations wake up to today’s complexities and develop new ways of being resilient #AgileTauranga

[Aaron Vercoe @AaronVercoe]

Very fortunate to hear @drjasonfox at #nzpf2018 this week. Refreshingly enlightening to hear the complexity of humanity celebrated through a Les of creativity. Check out his podcasts. My summer reading is sorted.

[Visible Learning @VisibleLearning]

From the Visible Learning Research John Hattie says these are the six things that emerge as most important to improve student achievement

[Weston Kieschnick @Wes_Kieschnick]

“Successful mediocrity at the expense of innovation and progress is bad for teachers and worse for kids. Try early, fail often, pursue excellence with joy, and be an omnipresent model of lifelong learning.”
#BoldSchool #edchat #blendedlearning #edtech

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Pale blue dot https://t.co/KZj3I55EYl

[edutopia @edutopia]

Have you tried Empatico, a free platform aimed at connecting classrooms around the world to teach students empathy and global awareness? https://t.co/9BtWPljzqW

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

Gregg Popovich, NBA Coaching legend & his take on white privilege is perfection. Everyone needs to hear this man.👏

[Aaron Vercoe @AaronVercoe]

Cognitive bias. https://t.co/ItCPbpApcx

[Aaron Vercoe @AaronVercoe]

@greggslatts To he fair....I see her point mate. It seems like the only reasonable response