Equal Education – Radio NZ Interview

Rebecca Jesson – equal education. This 10 minute RNZ National interview from 11 June 2016 describes recent successes of the Manaiakalani programme.

Children’s writing, in particular, is improving at accelerated rates under the Manaiakalani digital framework. Dr Rebecca Jesson is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher (Auckland University’s School of Curriculum and Pedagogy and the Woolf Fisher Research Centre).

Manaiakalani comprises thirteen (mostly decile one) schools in Auckland’s Glen Innes, Panmure and Point England, where students do the large part of their school work on digital devices. The idea is to give students equal access to information regardless of their socio-economic background, raise their expectations of success and prepare them for a digital future (RNZ 2016).

Read the Full Report by Dr Rebecca Jesson (Manaiakalani Whānau Capability Building and Classroom Instruction, 2015)