andrew churches

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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, on Auckland's North Shore. Kristin is a school with a mobile computing program, that sees students with personal mobile devices and laptops. 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. He is an edublogger, tweeter, wiki author and innovator. In 2008, 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.