Wondering how to tech-ify your Christmas? Here’s our EdTech Emily's Christmas List…. This Christmas I decided to follow the trend (hopefully it becomes habit) of buying experiences rather than gifts. I booked myself and the whanau a Reef Ecology Tour with Dive Tatapouri where we’ll get to learn about and interact with wild stingrays, I hear it’s amazing! So how does this link to technology? Well, I started thinking about capturing our Christmas experiences and sharing them wi

The opportunity to run full day workshops was a major highlight for the TŌNUI Collab team and local tamariki in Term 4, 2019. By booking out a full day of learning, children were able to explore thoroughly and build key skills in the morning and in the afternoon apply those skills to a real life project. The virtual reality experience is a new full day workshop introduced at the latter end of the term. With the generous donation of new devices coming into the lab, we have bee

This article was originally published by The Gisborne Herald. In a magnanimous gesture, The Gisborne Mind Lab education facility has been gifted to its local crew of educators. Since launching in 2015, The Mind Lab Gisborne has inspired over 32,000 school-aged children to get excited by science and technology through innovative and hands-on workshops on robotics, coding and virtual reality. The Mind Lab national founder Frances Valintine CNZM, delighted with how it has gone i

There are so many applications and programs available to use, it’s often hard to know where to start. As an educator teaching in the tech space, I am constantly looking for new apps and software to use with my learners. At Tonui Colllab we endeavour to use only free or very low cost programs, this is to enable our learners to continue to use them at home or at school. Below I’ve compiled a top 4 list of my current favourite teaching tools I’m using with our learners. If you h