Andrew Churches
Andrew Churches is a classroom teacher and ICT enthusiast. He passionately believes that to prepare our students for the future, we must prepare them for change, teach them to question and think, to adapt and modify, to sift and sort.
Andrew teaches at Kristin School, an independent school in Auckland, New Zealand. he has been deeply involved in the school's mobile computing program, that sees students using personal mobile devices and laptops in every class. This approach reflects the future that our students and children will be entering into with ubiquitous portable computing and an increasing digital world.
Outside of school, Andrew is an outdoor instructor and an adventure enthusiast. He enjoys sharing and presenting his work, research, thoughts and musings. Andrew's first book, the digital diet, which he co-authored with Lee Crockett and Ian Jukes guides and support educators as they adopt new technologies.
In 2009, Andrew was a finalist in the Microsoft Distinguished Educator Awards. Andrew is a workshop presenter, moderator and examiner for the International Baccalaureate organisation.
Andrew is an edublogger, tweeter, wiki author and innovator. In 2008 and 2009, Andrew's wiki, Educational Origami, was nominated for the Edublogs Best wiki awards. He is a regular contributor to a number of websites and blogs including Techlearning, Spectrum Education magazine and the Committed Sardine Blog, as well as his own edorigami blog. Andrew had refined Bloom's taxonomy to be more inclusive of digital media creating Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.
Andrew teaches at Kristin School, an independent school in Auckland, New Zealand. he has been deeply involved in the school's mobile computing program, that sees students using personal mobile devices and laptops in every class. This approach reflects the future that our students and children will be entering into with ubiquitous portable computing and an increasing digital world.
Outside of school, Andrew is an outdoor instructor and an adventure enthusiast. He enjoys sharing and presenting his work, research, thoughts and musings. Andrew's first book, the digital diet, which he co-authored with Lee Crockett and Ian Jukes guides and support educators as they adopt new technologies.
In 2009, Andrew was a finalist in the Microsoft Distinguished Educator Awards. Andrew is a workshop presenter, moderator and examiner for the International Baccalaureate organisation.
Andrew is an edublogger, tweeter, wiki author and innovator. In 2008 and 2009, Andrew's wiki, Educational Origami, was nominated for the Edublogs Best wiki awards. He is a regular contributor to a number of websites and blogs including Techlearning, Spectrum Education magazine and the Committed Sardine Blog, as well as his own edorigami blog. Andrew had refined Bloom's taxonomy to be more inclusive of digital media creating Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.
