Teachers in South Africa

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This Green Paper, launched by the South African Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande in January 2012, identifies the key challenges facing South African higher education and sets out a path for overcoming these obstacles.

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

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.

"Saferpedia.eu is an online encyclopedia that includes definitions and resources about Internet safety, developed within Sigur.info project. Sigur.info is a project aiming to raise awareness and information on safer Internet navigation for children."

This free online diploma-level course from ALISON is a comprehensive review of project management. Project management involves the planning, organizing, securing and managing of resources to achieve the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives. This course covers project management methodology, toolsets and documentation, and the project life cycle including analysis, planning, design and evaluation. The course also includes a project management case study. Qualifications in Project Management are in great demand internationally and this Diploma course will greatly enhance your career prospects.

Maths, Physical Science and Life Sciences revision quizzes directly on your cell phone or PC. Preparation tool for all your tests and exams. Immediate feedback: answers plus reasons for the correct answers. Wide range of exam-level questions. Developed by experienced Maths, Physical Science and Life Sciences educators Complies with National Curriculum Statement. Compliant with current Examination Guidelines

"iTALC is a use- and powerful didactical tool for teachers. It lets you view and control other computers in your network in several ways. It supports Linux and Windows 2000/XP and it even can be used transparently in mixed environments!"

Session 3 will focus on: An introduction to open copyright, Creative Commons licences, and searching for open "safe" content online.

"This guide avoids some of the obvious things, like using Google Docs for collaborative writing, and instead focuses on some of the lesser-used Google tools options like publishing an online quiz using Google Docs. In all there are 33 pages containing 21 ideas and how to instructions for creating Google Maps placemarks, directions creating and publishing a quiz with Google Docs forms, directions for embedding books into your blog, and visual aids for accessing other Google tools."

Jippeee the publishers have finally woken up to social media!!

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"The Committee commenced its public hearings into the challenges in access to and delivery of quality education in South Africa. This would lead to a report being tabled by the Committee to assist the Department in its planning around education issues. "

"Our current technological trajectory promises unfathomable, roller-coaster innovation with no braking system. While the ride is exciting, it moves so quickly that we typically don't have time to think about the possible unintended consequences that might accompany it. The result is that we find ourselves unable to effectively respond to hot-button issues like cyberbullying and sexting because they seem to come out of nowhere."

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

Discover, create and share documents with your friends, coworkers, and classmates on Facebook.

"Sweet Search is a search engine that searches only the sites that have been reviewed and approved by a team of librarians, teachers, and research experts. In all there are 35,000 websites that have been reviewed and approved by Sweet Search. In addition to the general search engine, Sweet Search offers five niche search engines. The niche search engines are for Social Studies, Biographies, SweetSites (organized by grade and subject area), School Librarians, and Sweet Search 4 Me (for elementary school students)."

GREAT example of getting youth involved in mobile learning!! Well done Steve!

Numeric is interested in finding ways to increase access to and usability of Khan Academy in South Africa. If you've never heard of Khan Academy, it is an outstanding online learning tool primarily targeted at school level mathematics. You can read more here, or check out their website directly at www.khanacademy.org. But we're not only talking about accessibility and usability, we're putting our money where our mouth is and taking it into the field ourselves! Numeric is piloting Khan Academy in township and rural areas in the Eastern and Western Cape, translating the videos into Xhosa, and providing useful tools for teachers and learners to make this resource more user friendly.

Teachmeets are a cool way to be introduced to new tools and how they can be used in the classroom