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Michelle Smith
Presidents Notes.
 

2018 Club Changeover

26 June 2018 at Sorento on the Park, One Tree Hill. Please RSPV to President Michelle

2018 District Governor Changeover

Date:                Saturday 7th July 2018

Time:                5.30 - 7.30pm

Location:         Quality Hotel, 20 Gladstone Rd, Parnell

 

Cost:                 $30 per person

 

RSVP the names of those attending to:

District Governor’s Secretary Peter Barron at : pbarron@xtra.co.nz

By  Monday 1 July  2018

 

Please make payment to : The Rotary Club of Parnell

    12-3109-0110290-02

 Ref:  C’over/name

 

 

Duty Rosters 

Members please note that if you are unable to undertake your duty please arrange for some-one else to take your place.
Programme 19-Jun-2018 26-Jun-2018
Topic    
Speaker RYDA Meeting at Alexandra Park Changeover Sorento One Tree Hill
Introduction John Overall  
Thanks    
Rapport Colin Lucas Roger Gower
AV Duty Paul Monk John Hawke
Cash Desk John Hawke Colin Lucas
Registration of Visitors Roger Gower Richard Holden
Presidents Table Youth Community and Fundraising
Host to Visitors John Graham Patrick Learmonth
  Marcus Graham John Long
Attendance Register Vinod Dewan Bill Mabey
Sunshine Boxes Ron Halls Malcolm MacDonald
 

Stories
Matthew Sorkin - The Mind Lab
Our Guest Speaker on Tuesday was Mat Sorkin from the Mind Lab.
 
Matthew was educated at Wesleyan University in the United States, after graduation he worked as a strategic communications consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton and since October 2017 he has been working at the Mind Lab by Unitec.
 
By way of background the mind land by Unitec is a relationship between that entity, Unitec and the Mind Lab, a special education and laboratory which is dedicated to enhancing digital literacy and up skilling teachers.
 
The theme of Matthews addressed to us can be summarised in one word – disruption.  All of the technologies we use today, cell phones, ipads, the software we use Google, Amazon for shopping are disruptive technologies and are combining to change how we interact and communicate, how we work and how we practice our professions.
 
New technologies are affecting the way we think the way we interact in the way we learn to such an extent that traditional models of learning that is to say knowledge retention, study for dying professions and the legacy teaching models are becoming redundant.
 
Knowledge retention is not a necessary skill any more as we have so many resources that we can rely on to obtain and access information. Google is a prime example. Technology is taking over mundane tasks necessitating a change to the traditional skill sets. In your editors profession legal technology is advancing by leaps and bounds so that traditional skills typing for example are becoming redundant. These notes are been prepared using voice dictation technology for example.
 
Students are studying today employment redundant industries. Many jobs are being replaced by automation so transferable skills be required. Matthew told us that 24% of jobs in New Zealand are at risk of automation within the next two decades. Robots are anticipated to eliminate 5 million jobs the same period.
 
Matthew told us a little bit about what mind lab does. It has 100 staff made up of 27 different nationalities the driver is to create enquiry generate questions and not provide answers (which is  the traditional model of education). Matthew suggested that education should teach us the benefits of failing and then fixing the issues that led to the failure in the first place.
 
He also made the point that education should be fun students should be scared to go to school. They should be excited to go to school so schools and the teachers need to create atmosphere where there is an air of excitement and in which children love to learn. The Mind Llab has taught and engaged over 100,000 students over the past four years.
 
The mind biggest project at the moment is educating teachers. It is offering a number of postgraduate courses dealing with contemporary education, collaborative learning and teaching leadership and education.
 
These courses are aimed at teachers who wish to skill themselves to be able to deal with disruptive technologies block chains augmented reality and similar. Teachers again have to be familiar with these technologies if they are going to succeed in producing students who can cope with the dramatically changing world we face.
 
Interestingly Matthew told us that the Ministry of Education likes what Mind Lab does but doesn’t like it as it likes legacy teaching and not be disruptive model promoted by Mind Lab.
 
Matthew’s address was warmly received by members is provided much food for thought.
Habitat For Humanity - Cambodia

Rotary has had a long association with Habitat for Humanity, with many clubs participating in both local and international builds. Miles Cain (of St Johns Rotary) has personally been on four Habitat builds to Nepal, Buenos Aires , Vietnam and last November, India and is now offering the chance of participating in a similar adventure to others.

 

He says; All these trips have been exceedingly rewarding for all the volunteers and a great opportunity to see a bit of the country. Within each of these builds there has been a good representation of Rotarians.


This October/ November I am leading a team into Cambodia to build one house in Phnom Penh. I am looking for a team of 12 and if interested I need a commitment by mid May as we need to lock in airfares etc. The build is for 6 days followed by about an 8 day tour which is in the process of being put together.


Indicative build cost is shown on attached brochure. Airfares and tour costs will be additional.


Very happy to discuss further, if interested . If it is not time for you this year, you may know someone else that could be interested so please spread the word.


With a small group, remember there are limited seats.

 

Regards, Miles Cain, M: 0274 469 225
Rotary Club of St Johns
RYDA Alexandra Park Timetable
See below the RYDA time-table so members can see what happens at the event if the want to see more than at lunch.
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