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Week 11

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Leadership Flipped preparation (required): Watch the video 'Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Explained' so that you understand the difference. Optionally, find an interesting crowdfunding project and share it on the padlet at tinyurl.com/TMLCrFunding DONE What is the role of entrepreneurship in education?  Education for Enterprise  (The NZ Curriculum) is about promoting an approach to learning – one that is real, relevant, and gives students responsibility for their learning. The Vision of NZ Curriculum (2016) is for young people who will be creative, energetic, and enterprising, who will seize the opportunities offered by new knowledge and technologies to secure a sustainable social, cultural, economic, and environmental future for our country. What are  Skills Every Entrepreneur Needs? According to Aileron (2017), the top skills every entrepreneur needs are Resiliency - The ability to weather the ups and downs of any business since i...

Week 10

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Leadership Flipped preparation (Required): Read the excerpt from Greenleaf's essay on 'Servant Leadership' and then come to the session with an example of Servant leadership you have seen in practice. Agile Teams are Self-Organising Teams Peha’s (2011) version of the 12 principles of the agile manifesto reinterprets the last two as follows: The best ideas and initiatives emerge from self-organizing teams At regular intervals, teams reflect on how to become more effective, then tune and adjust their behavior accordingly We will explore this idea using a combination of Boris Gloger’s Ball Point game (Gloger, 2008) and Mike Rother’s Kata in the Classroom (Rother, 2015).  Kata is a term from martial arts. The Improvement Kata is a repeating routine for continuous improvement.  The following diagram of the improvement kata process is adapted from material on the  katatogrow.com  website. The goal of the ball point game is for ea...