Teachers in South Africa

"This past Friday and Saturday I had the great priviledge of attending one of the most inspiring, outrageously entertaining, and compelling education conferences ever. This, of course, was the EdTech Conference 2011 hosted at the International School of Cape Town in Wynberg."

In education, it should not be about technology, but rather about how we can expand access to study and how we can improve support to our students in a way that will at least give them a fair opportunity at success.

"I often joke that the really good students do well "despite my teaching"… While I am not dead serious when saying it, there is a certain amount of discomfort in me when saying it. This begs the question whether our education system produce winners? "

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

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

This is a google group e-mail network for Southern African teachers

Community for Biology teachers

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

Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the Physics Education Technology project at the University of Colorado.

Hi Maggie, This seems like a really great set of simulations. Would be great if someone could link the content to the RNCS...

This is a mailing list/community for librarians/media specialists in SOuth Africa. It is a closed group, contact the list administrator Joy Rosario for membership.

(I am getting ready for 2010 in SA)

Resources and Conferences for Teaching Evolutionary Biology for teachers in the Western Cape

Resources and Conferences for Teaching Evolutionary Biology for teachers in the Western Cape

Professor David Crystal is a world renowned linguistic expert and author of 30+ books on the topic. In 31 minutes David dispels five myths surrounding today's wired youth and the impact on language.

Join me and get blogging....

I have decided to run all my essential teacher toolkit tools as learning pathways /un-workshops online (We are all gatvol of workshops). This just means that I will be featuring a tool at a time in a focused and step by step way, taking everybody through the steps collaboratively and with community support (hopefully). This will all happen online using my learnwithmaggie community as our base, this school 2.0 blog, our SASchools wiki and the featured tools.

A professional development course from the Schoolnet Ace

Bird sounds and photos Lovely!!!

Maybe we could use this as a base AUP and build /change form it...???

"A Danish - South African initiative offering Mobile solutions for Literacy Training and Skills Development."

This visual tutorial is really inspiring. Well done!

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

COme on let's put all our schools on the map seeing that we now have a fully functional google maps in South Africa