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The Department of Science and Technology (DST), together with the Department of Basic Education and the Eastern Cape Department of Education, has launched the Cofimvaba Schools District Technology Project.

Information and communication technologies have enabled the desegregation of the three core components (or clusters) in teaching and learning in higher education : content (access to and apprenticeship to disciplinary knowledge, content creation) ;interaction (between peers, between students and academic experts through pedagogy, feedback and engagement) ; and accreditation (summative evaluation and certification).   Not only are these now all digitally mediated, they are also increasingly open in various permutations, through for example open content and MOOCs (massive open online courses which provide free access to whole courses for anyone with online access). This session will describe current trends and focus on the questions and implications for UCT with its twin imperatives of global prestige and benchmarking, and local development and redress imperatives

The Department of Basic Education briefed Members on its Second Quarterly Performance Report from 1 July 2011 to 30 September 2011; on the progress on delivery of infrastructure development for technical schools; and on the Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign.

You can't swing a stick in social media without hitting something on Facebook. Same goes for education. You can't talk about how technology is revolutionizing education without mentioning Facebook. It's a simple service to figure out but what about once you become a regular user? If you're a teacher, you would be well served by spending 3 minutes to read through this must-have guide. (We timed it out and it's a bit under 3 minutes. It's almost summertime, you can spare it for us!)

"Great presentation about social software in education! With case-study and data form students opinons! "

TeachITza - resource website for IT educators and learners in South Africa. The focus of this website is on general resources and programming as done using Borland Delphi. Any comments or suggestions on improving the site are more than welcome.

Education: Recipe for failure

Great great article with resoruce links about educational blogging

"Basic Education Laws Amendment Draft Bill"

"Deputy Minister on Department of Basic Education budget & strategic plan 2010 - 2013"

Waht do you guys think of this????????

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. Over a period of two years we adapted, piloted and revised a set of materials on the teaching and learning of maths for teacher education. These are now available for downloading FOR FREE in two formats - for printing (PDF), and for adaptation (Word). See the ACEMaths Module to have a look.

"The Low Achievement Trap is an empirical study of student mathematics learning in Grade 6 classrooms that is unique in its focus on two school systems shaped by different political histories on either side of the Botswana-South Africa border. The study provides a detailed examination of the capacity of teachers - how they teach, how much they teach, and what they teach. Because of this wealth of detail, The Low Achievement Trap gives us much greater insight than previous research into why students seem to be making larger gains in the classrooms of South Eastern Botswana than in those of North West Province, South Africa. Rather than identifying a single major factor to explain this difference, the study finds that a composite of inter-related variables revolving around teachers' mathematics knowledge and their capacity to teach mathematics are crucial to improving education in both regions. The message is a hopeful one: good teachers can make a difference in student learning."

"Some Members were uncomfortable that each new Minister seemed to introduce new systems"

Education providers in South Africa is waking up to mobile learning solutions

Educators network learning pathways

South African schoolchildren will be taught a Bill of Responsibilities along with the Bill of Rights, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said in Pretoria on Monday.

Spady,The afther of OBE< who toured the country in 1997 addressing thousands of teachers about outcomes based education, said South Africa had "completely missed the boat" in understanding the concept.

The Africa STIC facilitates R&D, best practice sharing and innovation in education, supported by innovative technologies, processes and pedagogies for teaching and learning in schools across sub-Saharan Africa, towards skills development and employability.