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Good Work Foundation | 5 Great Learning Apps for Rural South Africa - 1 views

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  • 5 Great Learning Apps for Rural South Africa Back
  • Apple claims that 80,000 of its apps are catergorised as “education.”
  • in July 2014 there were over three million apps available
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  • one of the digital facilitator’s most important tasks is “app aggregation” – and that depends on age, academic level, language ability, etc.
  • Below are five apps that our digital facilitators used in 2014 at Hazyview Digital Learning Centre’s (HDLC) Open Learning Academy in rural South Africa for grade four learners.
  • The focus
  • is to “have as much fun as possible” but coming in a close second: dramatically improve English reading and comprehension, and basic mathematics numeracy
  • easiest for beginners to use, and the most useful in terms of content for our group of learners.
  • Scrabble (Electronic Arts)
  • Word Search (MichelAnge Workshop)
  • Math BINGO (Iuyen sg)
  • Sentence Builder Lite (BareBoneApps.com)
  • Open Learning Academies are built to empower rural people from a young age. The academies aim to deliver English literacy, math’s literacy, digital literacy, and life skills to school-aged learners.
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Media Alert: Free high-speed internet at all Western Cape schools by end-2016 | Western... - 1 views

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  • 8 September 2015
  • Premier Helen Zille formally launched the Western Cape’s eLearning “Game-Changer” at the province’s Legislature building in Cape Town today (8 September 2015).
  • will provide free high-speed internet access to all Western Cape schools by the end of 2016, to support teaching and learning.
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  • for improving access to quality education in all communities.
  • vision is to use eLearning to improve literacy and numeracy, and to ensure that our learners are better prepared for the 21st century.
  • two key parts.
  • free high-speed broadband access.
  • first
  • second
  • give learners and teachers instant access to the very best digital materials for teaching and learning.
  • ePortal
  • Western Cape Government (WCG) is investing R3.8 billion over the next 10 years to bring high-speed broadband to all residents of the Western Cape.
  • And schools are our first priority. Over the next decade, R2 billion of the total investment will be on connectivity at schools.
  • broadband system will provide a Wide Area Network (WAN).
  • total of 581km of fibre optic cable will have been laid by the end of 2016,
  • alongside the existing 1251km Neotel cable network
  • backbone
  • connects all schools and other sites across the province.
  • Western Cape Education Department is also installing Local Area Networks (LANs) in schools, district offices and head offices to connect classrooms, teachers and learners to the broader admin system.
  • Work started in September last year, and the first schools were connected to the WAN in April this year
  • 31 August 2015, service providers have completed connectivity at 275 schools
  • end of 2016, all schools in the province will have free, high-speed internet access.
  • “smart classrooms”
  • including interactive whiteboards, laptops, projectors and other devices to support teaching and learning.
  • addition
  • will be able to use their own devices,
  • 3 350 smart classrooms were established in schools in 2014/15. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) also refreshed 249 computer laboratories in the same year.
  • The WCED has provided 26 000 ICT training opportunities to date, to support teaching and learning.
  • the new eLearning Portal has gone live, and is accessible at www.wcedeportal.co.za.
  • Our new broadband system and the digital revolution are making it much easier to respond to the individual needs of learners, teachers, parents, school managers and governors.
  • individuals can easily access the ePortal from any location
  • content available on the ePortal will be entirely demand-driven, with content suppliers competing to provide the best digital resources.
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