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What is The Knowledge Breakfast?
The Knowledge Breakfast is a new television series that features New Zealand education and innovation in action.
Screening on TV One on Saturday mornings, each programme includes live interviews with people involved in education and research, and those who have excelled in other related fields.
Programme 2, Innovation
Broadcast on Saturday 1 June 2002, TV One, 6.15 – 9am.
Repeat: Saturday 14 September 2002, TV One, 6.15 – 9am.
Ministry of Education segments
Visit the Knowledge Breakfast information on TKI (http://www.tki.org.nz/e/tki/know_break/) and visit the nzoom.com site (http://knowledge.nzoom.com) to read about this episode of the Knowledge Breakfast series, and to view streaming video files of the Ministry commissioned segments.
Schools might find these items of value as part of their staff and professional development programmes, board of trustees meetings, and as useful illustrative material for their local parents/caregivers and communities.
Fostering Literacy and Numeracy
http://knowledge.nzoom.com/knowledge_detail/0,2210,104786-181-183,00.html
This video, produced in 2001, provides an excellent overview of the Ministry's
range of Literacy and Numeracy initiatives, and features interviews with teachers,
principals and advisors. A streaming video clip of the item is available under
"Related Video" on this page.
Living Heritage: creating young historians – interview
http://knowledge.nzoom.com/knowledge_detail/0,2210,101328-181-184,00.html
featuring: Lucy Ryan, Living Heritage project manager, Fiona Mackie from The National
Library of New Zealand, Auckland, Sharon Purchase, librarian of Campbell's Bay
Primary School, Auckland, and Conor O'Malley, ex-student from Campbell's Bay Primary
School, Auckland.
Today, young people can be researchers, writer and internationally published authors thanks to Living Heritage. This web-based initiative provides the opportunity for young people to research and tell the stories of their local schools, family, whānau, and communities which reflect our nation's history and our day to day lives. A streaming video clip of the item is available under "Related Video" on this page.
Literacy and Numeracy - interview
http://knowledge.nzoom.com/knowledge_detail/0,2210,104786-181-183,00.html
featuring: Sue Douglas, matrix manager, Ministry of Education; Gill Thomas, maths advisor, Dunedin College of Education; Judy Hanna, principal, Mangere Bridge School, Auckland; Rosi Fitzpatrick, coordinator, Pasifika Literacy and Numeracy, Ministry of Education.
This live interview discusses what's happening in literacy and numeracy in New Zealand today. A streaming video clip of the item is available under "Related Video" on this page.
Spotlight on TKI: "Searching on TKI"
http://knowledge.nzoom.com/
This week, the spotlight is on how to search effectively on TKI.
A streaming video clip of the item is available under "Related Video" on this page.
Parents as Partners: "It's The Everyday Things"
http://knowledge.nzoom.com/
This week, we look at how you can use everyday items and activities in your home to support your child's learning. A streaming video clip of the item is available under "Related Video" on this page.
More information
For more information about The Knowledge Breakfast, feel free to contact KB@tki.org.nz
