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Maggie's personal journey of how, where and when to use web 2.0 tools in support of teaching and learning. Basic ICT tutorials for teachers as well.

Teachers spend slightly less time on their activities overall, but much less time on teaching than policy requires. There is a serious erosion of instructional time in the majority of schools, but it is worst in rural and semi-rural African schools.

key members of staff. Each of the learning areas need to be represented including computer studies and the teacher librarian should be a significant member of the team. The object of this exercise is for a school to create a policy which is embraced by all educators as information literacy falls across the curriculum and is the responsibility of all. Once a policy has been created an implementation plan should be formulated and introduced with clearly defined time frames.

Great great article with resoruce links about educational blogging

Seems that some provinces has started the roll-out (NWP) process and some has canned the process for the time being (EC). All I know is that the provinces has to spend the money allocated to the laptop project within the next 3 years

The international experience on schooling reform provides a compelling set of ideas about how to get South Africa's struggling schooling system moving in the right direction

A collaborative presentation compiled by teachers. Some snippets of ideas for lessonplans.

Discover ideas for instruction that innovative districts have developed to better leverage the increasing number of laptops, cell phones, MP3 players and smart phones that students carry. This webinar explores the latest findings from Speak Up surveys given to K-12 students, teachers and administrators regarding their views on mobile devices within instruction.

The team had found underlying dysfunctionality at rural and township schools, and teachers were spending less time in the classroom and more time on administration. The culture of teaching and learning had disappeared in most rural and township schools.

This Webinar will discuss the challenges and opportunities concerning global education.

The Peer Coaching Programme is designed to develop leaders in ICT to serve as peer coaches for colleagues. As coaches, these teachers will assist their peers in identifying ways to enhance outcomes-based teaching and to offer their learners engaging learning activities supported by ICT integration. In doing so, peer coaches will help their colleagues to develop the necessary skills and teaching and learning strategies needed to integrate ICT into teaching and learning.

Developing and using quality learning resources in an Open Educational Resources environment: The aim of SAIDE ACEMaths project was to pilot a collaborative process for the selection, adaptation and use of OER materials for teacher education programmes in South Africa.

For those who still think that twitter is just for twits....

Mindset Learn is aimed at high school learners and teachers in Grade 10, 11 and 12. Content is curriculum aligned with a specific focus on Mathematics, Physical Science and English.

Currently running a blogtwit workshop for teachers